Icon painting is beyond artistic skill. It is a word or an image from the heart of an iconographer that insists every onlooker or user online to add divine prayer in his/her busy schedule. The increasing incidents of violence in school, our offices, roads and other public places denotes that we all are terming ourselves God and forget to respect divine what he has given to us. Eastern Orthodox Christianity gives prove about the making of Christian images back to early days of Christianity. Only, the flow and the style differ with the passing of the time but continuity remained in all ages.
Few years back, encaustic paint was used
in the making of icons but now tempera paint has been used. The egg yolks is
just a new attempt to bring more perfectness in images. Our modern
iconographers say that acceleration of visual effect in our icons grab the
attention of every onlooker and this causes instant purchasing that icon for
his home or office. St. Louise
de Marillac icon, Dorothy Day and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton create another world
for the viewer. We can call icon
painting, a kind of parallel reality that fills wonder of God's Kingdom
for each viewer.
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