Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jb104@prism.gatech.edu (Jamie Tarasidis) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Modern iconography (was Re: The Shroud of Turing) Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 91 22:12:21 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article tblake@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Thomas Blake) writes: >Without divine inspiration, no portrait of Jesus will be accurate, since >we don't have any good photographs of him. Any religious symbol will >not accurately portray reality, the artist can only hope to communicate >an understanding. It is interesting that you said this, because this is really the point of iconography. If you have ever visited an Orthodox church and looked at the icons, you will notice that the people portayed have some very exaggerated features -- they do not look lifelike at all. That is because an icon is not meant to be a picture of a person's physical body, as most pictures are. The icon portays the spiritual person; the iconographer tries to convey a spiritual message. By the way, hello everyone. This is my first time to post to this group. I am an Orthodox Christian. Jamie -- TARASIDIS, JAMIE B Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!jb104 Internet: jb104@prism.gatech.edu