Icon painter of the 1920s to the 1970s

After the October Revolution, many icon painters exile. These cultural diaspora not only reserved for the Russian Orthodox tradition in the West, and to the West to show these traditions rich connotation. Russian nationals most outstanding icon painter repair Doses Gregory. Georgy Ivanovich. Kruger was born in St. Petersburg, who live in Estonia, 19-year-old to join the Orthodox Church is conscious, then moved to France, where the artist college education. He has done paintings and iconostasis icons for many churches in France, Italy, Britain, the Netherlands and other countries, spent hundreds vice icon. His iconography to the West show the world the Russians brought the Orthodox faith.

Gregory's work has a distinctive personal style. He not only worship the ancient icon canon, and attract modern art experience. As successor to modern art, he was very focused on hazy contours and bright colors spots effect. Color or luminous and pulsating in the form of obstacles to overcome in the form, or become flowing and transparent so that image seems like a mirage. In his works, throughout the deep energy world was given a non-serving nature of conflict, but both warm fire, and pure water. Unfortunately, the priest always follow Glenn Korea icon painting techniques, so his paintings and fade serious damage.

Father Gregory expressive character icons created deep, the Saints face with some kind of peaceful nostalgia, as if memories of their time spent in years. His style icons softer, sometimes close to depression. His icons and frescoes unreal world, but show a strong spirit and the spirit of the world have harmony, although this harmony because the material has been squeezed from all sides seem fragile and unstable, but still is a spiritual concern

Father Gregory tries to perfect icon of the presence of the Russian diaspora in advance in a foreign land of the lost, the reply end of the root of life. People through his work to confirm the root of the human soul is no longer the world's countries, while being in heaven. Kruger is convinced that at any age, the gradient is in a very brutal era, the icon can witness the mysteries of the kingdom, witnesses and the world was changed by the grace of God.

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