Arta icoanei în dinamica tradiţiei

Abstract

The icon, an object of worship and a work of art, is specific to the Christian religion, and more precisely, to the Orthodox Church. In fact, only in the Orthodox Church can we speak of a cult of icons. Sacred Art is a component part of the National Cultural Heritage and represents one of our contributions to the art of Europe. The Iconographic Canon, that set of doctrinal rules and norms positions Sacred Art (religious image) as a testimony of the physical Incarnation of God, and as a living history of the nation, as reported by artistic images that use religious motives as inspiration and it aims to raise man in a spiritual contemplation. Doctrinal theology referring to sacred art eliminates the risk of so-called "artistic existentialism", where the imagination can make room for interpretations that could alter the symbolic content of religious art, or church art can not be intuited but practically contains the concept of image and symbol , which was formed in the Byzantine Empire in the 11th-12th century and was adopted by the Orthodox Church.