Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Serial funs [HU]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdQHyEWlXg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtJKpby3cRA&feature=related

Orthodox icon

"Icon-painting in Old Russia was a sacred profession."

"Tempera painting required expertise and high capacity for drawing, that could be achieved during the long years of apprenticeship. Icon-painting was a great creative work and icon-painters were specially prepared for performing "the deed of icon creating".
It was an act of communication with God and required spiritual and physical purification "… when writing a holy icon he touched the food only on Saturdays and Sundays, being restless day and night. He spent nights in wakefulness, praying and obeisance. At daytime he devoted himself to icon-painting with humility, non-possessiveness, purity, patience, fast, love, and God-thinking.""

http://www.orthodoxworld.ru/en/icona/5/index.htm

Monday, July 27, 2009