Byzantine Icons - Miller, Mary Jane
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Byzantine Icons: Narrative Messages and Interpretation is an 88-page book that incorporates 36 full-color plates of my paintings, a collection of contemporary iconography inspired by classic Byzantine style iconography, painted using the traditional egg tempera technique. It is an old-world painting process of mixing egg yolk and ancient earth pigments. The practice of iconography is a visual language about God that comes alive in color and texture through practice, patience, and living tradition is always in a process of responsive development that holds together, in lesser or greater…mehr

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Byzantine Icons: Narrative Messages and Interpretation is an 88-page book that incorporates 36 full-color plates of my paintings, a collection of contemporary iconography inspired by classic Byzantine style iconography, painted using the traditional egg tempera technique. It is an old-world painting process of mixing egg yolk and ancient earth pigments. The practice of iconography is a visual language about God that comes alive in color and texture through practice, patience, and living tradition is always in a process of responsive development that holds together, in lesser or greater tension, the past and the present. Living tradition is always open to new possibilities, insights, perspectives, and careful, faithful editing. While not overwhelming the reader with detail, Miller provides sufficient detail to identify both the tradition received and her reading of the tradition in our current context. For example, the icon of the Pool at Bethesda (#11) where we see the stones on mountains, taken from the ancient Jewish tradition of placing small rocks on a grave, a multivalent symbol to honor the dead or the re-appearance of women in a scene where they were certainly a part of the event, but have been erased from the scene by early male iconographers in a male-dominated church. This book, Byzantine Icons: Narrative Messages and Interpretation, invites the reader to read a visual language and seek its meaning and message. On the one hand???, it is a conventionally written icon image based on a biblical text of words. On the other hand???, the reader or viewer is invited to explore the storytelling and enter the icon. The forty images, colors, and shapes engage the viewer with the narrative put forth and at times provoke a surprising response to what you see as you ponder the image. Byzantine iconography contains a powerful narrative in color, texture, and style. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words and in this case a thousand meditations. May your reading bless you, opening to you the knowledge and truth of God who created you in God's image and likeness, redeems you in your very humanness, and raises you into the new life of grace through the Son in the Spirit. May you find the infinite Mystery of God for you and with you...you who are beloved utterly by God. The story written in these icons is, finally, a love story. It is the story of God's love for us that gives us life and empowers us to live it in all its wonder.
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Iconography and Meditation explains How to paint icons. Iconography is revealed through the process of looking into the ancient Icon Painting images and their Secret Techniques revealed through prayer or awareness. This book describes only one Secret Prayer Method, supported by a brief history of Iconography, and the use of organic materials. The Icon of St Luke is instructional, a clear explanation for what the iconography is trying to achieve. Mary Jane Miller's overview of How to Paint an Icon is unique and provocative. Her approach is honest and prayerful. The first strokes and first lines, followed by a chaos of color should not deter you, it is the beginning. After Second lines, Highlights and Veils the process and how to do iconography becomes more clear. You are encouraged to analyze Icon Images,it is the way to discover the depth and robust mystery found in this ancient practice. Mixing Paint for Lettering, Pigment Recipe Guide, Prayers for an Iconographer, Rules for the Iconographer, are all included in Mary Jane Miller Books. Her other guide, How to Paint Icons; Workbook and Journal, for the contemporary iconographer is a great supplement to this Iconography and Meditation. If you are looking for more info about the ancient teachings of this great practice Miller's advice it to persevere, pray and practice.