PAINTING THE LIGHTExcerpts from "The Art of Christian image" - Patrick Ringgenberg
"The brightness of the icon has inherited the Transfiguration, as if a spark of light was turned on for centuries pigments painters.
Bottom gold paint is called "light" and it is none other than the luminance of Tabor (see explanation of the Transfiguration). Formerly iconographers the ministry began by painting an icon of the Transfiguration. It's light that initiates the painter in his art, because it is all icon: she is a clarity of the Word and energy of its presence in human beings.
The icon has no shadows, or chiaroscuro, or alternation of day and night, light comes from everywhere and of all time. The icon demonstrated both a descent of Light to the colors of the world and a rally in colors to the brightness of God. Chromaticism reveals facets of light: the color glare mystique. The relationship between color and light of the icon is a relationship of motherhood; The colors are children of light, like men are the son of divine light.
The hues of the icon is a watercolor of the soul, imbued with a contemplative thinning. They are statements and content of Wisdom, tones and movements of Love. In other words, there is no color without light, and no light without spiritual awareness. This color wisdom lies in the heart where the man sees God by joining with him.
The icon also symbolizes the rise of matter to the clarity of God, it includes all levels of nature: wood, which hosts the image, inorganic pigments, which generate colors, and yellow d 'egg, which mixed with water, serves as a binder. As ambassadors symbolic, they represent the prevailing plant, animal and mineral. Far from despising the subject, the icon knighted and restores its original function . |
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