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Again, the general understanding of icon painting art also has some enlightening. We say that the great works of art that anyone at any time can be created out of, but often from the artist's inspiration. What "inspiration" Inspiration is how is? We will admit, does not depend on artistic inspiration, but also some from the artist's talent. What is talent?But it includes some extraordinary thing, that is, some kind of mysterious supernatural origin. We usually call "inspiration and talent, where the icon painter, is the chanting of the Holy Spirit moved and driven. Icon painter is not their divine image creation, but show it. With special language icon painter said, drawing

But to show it, with a special language icon painter, the process is gradually drawing icon of icons reveal the image, so that the image already has appeared on the drawing board. Russian philosopher Filo Lenski said the priest; 'the artist is not from their own configuration sacred images, but only opened coverings already exist prior to the image of the world on that.

If the art of the United States as an independent value as their nature and purpose, then, is not Dekor Art has a separate value, its beauty belongs to the religious beliefs and experiences. Thus, the meaning Dekor outside the Orthodox faith, only from the artistic point of view, it is difficult to understand. Someone once asked the Russian theologian Father Alexander Mayne: how to learn to understand and feel icon? Mayne replied: "Only true love, not artistic, can teach you to understand and feel Dekor Let's say one of your loved one died, but you do not have his portrait, but retains a little. cut down on passport from old photos, but you still cherish this little picture, because this is the person you love ʱ?? So for me to receive Christ, even a bad icon is meaningful

But that does not mean having no artistic iconostasis. First, it should be understood that the specific Dekor fixed norms. If the general artistic point of view, we can say with a clear conservative icon painting, regulatory restrictions on the icon themes and characters and hindered the development of Dekor art. But it is not true icon painter. Orthodox Church never established canon in the field of art forms: some resolution Ecumenical Council and local conferences involving only individual themes of portraiture.

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