Icons and Contemporary Art | with Fr. Silouan Justiniano
Fr. Silouan Justiniano is a hieromonk, Orthodox priest and artist. In my estimation he’s one of the most important visual artists in North America today. In this interview we take a deep dive into contemporary art history, the traditional icon, and how the two connect.
– Fr. Silouan’s website: https://hieromonksilouan.org/about
– Fr. Silouan’s articles on the Orthodox Arts Journal: https://orthodoxartsjournal.org/fr-si…
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 – Introducing Fr. Silouan
00:01:30 – Intro music
00:01:54 – Traditional art VS the fine arts paradigm
00:04:47 – Fr. Silouan’s answer
00:12:15 – The autonomous work of art: aesthetics & the museum
00:17:16 – Distortions of Christian doctrine
00:19:17 – Leading to abstraction and subjectivism
00:20:53 – Tradition and secular
00:24:50 – Marcel Duchamp
00:29:22 – Contemporary art as an amoeba
00:32:23 – Encountering an Orthodox church VS the art world
00:35:18 – Fr. Silouan’s story
00:48:45 – Torn between worlds & finding orientation
00:52:54 – Orthodox Christians engaging the contemporary art world
00:56:49 – What Christians did with Roman art
00:58:42 – The revival of iconography
01:04:46 – A living tradition: iconology VS stylistic form
01:07:38 – Indulgent VS purposeful creativity
01:11:46 – Iconography and other traditional arts
01:14:24 – The icon supports contemplation
01:17:13 – Iconography and ethnicity
01:21:11 – Balance with the individual
01:27:53 – Outro
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