Articles by Hieromonk Silouan

Essays

• On Manners and Mannerisms: Thoughts on Style...Part II, Orthodox Arts Journal, May 25, 2023

• On Manners and Mannerisms: Thoughts on Style...Part I, Orthodox Arts Journal, May 10, 2023

• Towards Luminosity and Transparency: On the Painting of George Kordis, George Kordis -- Light from Light: Icons 2002-2022, Alexander Press, 2022

• Iconological Paragraphs, Analogia, Vol. !6, 2022

• The Autonomy of the Icon, Zhivopis, Vol. 9, 2020

• The Icon Painting of Fr. Stamatis Skliris: A Call for Authenticity, Orthodox Arts Journal, April 21, 2020

• Preparatory Drawings as Temporary Icons: An Alternative Solution, Orthodox Arts Journal, October 23, 2019

• Brilliant Darkness: On Saint Dionysios the Areopagite’s Blue Halo, Orthodox Arts Journal, April 14, 2019

• Imagination, Expression, Icon: Reclaiming the Internal Prototype, Sacred Web, Vol. 39, Summer 2017

• A Double Standard? Some Clarifications on Icon Painting Theory, Orthodox Arts Journal, July 26, 2017

• Notes on Method, Orthodox Arts Journal, June 30, 2017

• The Threshold: Reflections on Gallery Art and the Sacred, Sacred Web, Vol. 38, Winter 2016

• The Degraded Iconicity of the Icon (Revised), IKON: Journal of Iconographic Studies, Vol. 9, 2016

• St. Mary of Egypt and St. Zosimas: An Icon of Divine Art, Sacred Web, Vol. 37, Summer 2016

• A New Icon of St. Mary of Egypt and St. Zosimas: Notes on Form and Symbolism, Orthodox Arts Journal, April 14, 2016

• The Pictorial Metaphysics of the Icon: Abstraction vs. Naturalism Reconsidered, Orthodox Arts Journal, December 29, 2015

• The Ever-Renewing Reality, in catalog, The Living Tradition of Icon Painting: Philip Davidov & Olga Shalamova, Virginia Theological Seminary, Fall 2015

• On Visionary Art: A Traditional Critique, Sacred Web, Vol. 35, Summer 2015

• On the Gift of Art (Russian), in Gifts Almanac, 23 March, 2015

• Aesthetics of Deification, Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination, January 21, 2015

• Aesthetics of Deification & Postmodern Deceptions: Reflections on Monasticism, the Icon & Beauty, Sacred Web, Vol. 34, Winter 2014

• On the Gift of Art. But, What Art?: Secular and Sacred Art in Light of Tradition, Orthodox Arts Journal, May 14, 2014

• On Noetic Vision and Sacred Art: A Letter, Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, Vol. 32, Winter 2013

• On the Relative Autonomy of the Icon: Converging Aesthetics in Early Modernism, Orthodox Arts Journal, December 13, 2013

• Archetype and Symbol: Thoughts on the Creative Act, Orthodox Arts Journal, March 12, 2013

• In Search of the Sacred Image, Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination, Vol. 5, 2013

• The Degraded Iconicity of the Icon: The Icon’s Materiality and Mechanical Reproduction, Orthodox Arts Journal, March 6, 2013

• The Degraded Iconicity of the Icon: The Icon's Materiality and Mechanical Reproduction (1st Hard Copy Version), Sacred Web, Vol. 31, Summer 2013

Reviews

• Festal Icons: History and Meaning, by Aidan Hart, Orthodox Arts Journal, August 14, 2022

• Institute of Sacred Arts hosts academic round-table on "Tradition and Innovation in the Arts of the Orthodox Church," Orthodox Arts Journal, March 23, 2022

• Introducing the Institute of Sacred Arts at Saint Vladimir’s Seminary, Orthodox Arts Journal, March 17, 2020

• The Drawings of Elena Murariu, Orthodox Arts Journal, December 20, 2017

• The Sacred Arts Initiative “Rethinking Sacred Arts” Orthodox Arts Journal, November 30, 2016

• As Through A Child’s Inner Eye: The Contemporary Icons of Maxim Sheshukov, Orthodox Arts Journal, October 4, 2016

• Beauty – Spirit – Matter: Icons in the Modern World, by Aidan Hart, Orthodox Arts Journal, July 14, 2014

Interviews

• Icon Painting as Participation: Interview With Cornelia Tsakiridou...Part II, Orthodox Arts Journal, April 1, 2023

• Icon Painting as Participation: Interview With Cornelia Tsakiridou...Part I, Orthodox Arts Journal, March 25, 2023

• Every Human Being is a Creator: An Interview With Davor Džalto, Orthodox Arts Journal, July 28, 2021

• Towards a Great Pictorial Synthesis: Interview with Ioan Popa, Orthodox Arts Journal, April 16, 2018

• A Matter of “Ethos”: An Interview With the Painter Markos Kampanis, Orthodox Arts Journal, May 12, 2016

• Contemporary Byzantine Painting: An Interview With Fikos, Orthodox Arts Journal, August 30, 2016

• The Art of Icon Painting in a Postmodern World: An Interview With George Kordis, Orthodox Arts Journal, June 25, 2014