Using vivid painting for traditional canonical icons is often considered
as a shortcoming. Vivid painting and icon painting is opposed. My opinion
is that it's wrong.
Picturesqueness (in Russian translation vivid painting)
is a positive quality of all genres of fine arts,
not only of realistic painting. In canonical Orthodoxy icons this quality
is particular necessary.
At present links on canon conception are often in use for excusing
in taste's, colour's or arty's absence, in somebody's icons. I consider that
such icons cant be canonical. Icons canon is not only an orientation on old
traditional icons. Primely canon is an aspiration to arty and spiritual
perfection.
In Orthodoxy church the cordiality is wrongly opposinng to the
spirituality and therefore, vivid painting must not present in icons
because of it is an expression of artist's emotional soul. Icons have to express
cold spirituality. But real spirituality cannot be achieved without
such souls quality as cordiality and sincerity.
The picturequeness is just amazeing us in medieval icons. An icon
cant be canonical without it.
Russion text of article.
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