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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-silouan-justiniano/
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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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