![]() ![]() He studies in an Fine Arts high school in the years 1963 - 1968. His love of painting dates back from the days of his early childhood. Ustinian was born on in Sofia, Bulgaria in the family of artists. Many of his worksĪre now in private collections in Bulgaria, USA, France, Belgium, Greece, Russia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Swiss, Slovakia. In 2005 the exhibition "European Heritage Days" - in Sofia. During 2007-2008, 4 icons exhibitions were held in the Bulgarian Cultural Institutes in Vienna, Bratislava, Prague and Budapest. The first exhibition featuring his work only, was held in 1996 in Belgium. His largest exhibitions during the last five years were the following: Ustinian Tilov has taken part in many icons exhibitions. They are deeply rooted in the gospel, and have been cherished and venerated by Christians from the earliest times.IRINA and SONS is an on-line icon gallery, featuring the hand-painted icons of Bulgarian artist Ustinian Tilov, crafted as authentic replicas and author copies using the traditional technique for Christian Orthodox Icons - tempera on wood panel, and following the canon for depiction of saints. Icons have a very prominent and important place in the worship and piety of the Orthodox Church. Since the 9th Century, the Orthodox Church has established a set of technical rules, or canons for the artistic form of icons. Thus the icon becomes, in a way, the fruit of the Holy Spirit, containing spiritual power. The iconographer is expected to fast, pray, and live a holy life so as to be capable of expressing sacred and divine mysteries. The painting (more properly called writing) of icons is a special vocation. In this sense, the icon has been called "a meeting between heaven and earth". ![]() The Incarnation of Christ (God made man, and thus visible) is the theological foundation of the icon which seeks to reveal the divine through visible and familiar content. And Iconography is the spiritual art of expressing the spiritual reality of these people and events using sacred symbolic forms and mystical colors.Īn icon, in fact, manifests our human participation in the divine through its symbolic pictoral language. Herman of Alaska, or some event from salvation history, such as the the Nativity of Christ, the Resurrection, or an Ecumenical Council. Given that context, the subject of an icon is some person such as Christ, Mary the Theotokos (mother or bearer of God), an Old or New Testament figure such as Abraham, the Prophet Elija, or an Apostle, etc., some hero of the Church, such as St. With that in mind, let us consider the icon as an artistic and spiritual representation of a sacred person or event. 1:26-27) In the discussion that follows, when we talk about the Icon as an "artistic representation", we are ultimately talking about the attempt to represent that "image of God" in and through the person of the one portrayed. ![]() 1&2) he endowed our forbearers with His divine image and likeness. ![]() For most of this document we will be talking about icons as sacred images, but in order to fully understand what we mean, we'll start with a much more specific and narrow definition. The word has come to usually mean sacred image, though it really means much more than that. ![]()
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