Lecture: The Sacred Image: A Portal to Knowing and Unknowing
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A culture becomes what it worships. We act as we see. For theocentric cultures therefore, the richness or poverty of their sacred art, architecture, and rituals will have a profound impact on life beyond their temples’ walls. Worship is traditionally conceived to be an image of and a participation in heavenly worship. It is therefore a paradise garden that seeds the cultural land beyond the temple walls. As above, so below. Such worship is the mouth of the infinite spring of God’s blessing. As the prophet Ezekiel wrote of his vision of the temple:
‘water came out from under the threshold of the temple… where the river flows everything will live’
Ezekiel 47.9
In this talk Aidan Hart will explore the profound spiritual principles that inspire the almost two thousand years of the Orthodox Church’s sacred art. This is a wholistic form of liturgy that embraces all five senses, unites matter and spirit, the inner with the outer. To illustrate these principles he will draw on works from his forty years as a professional church artist, and designer, working in icon and wall painting, mosaic, carving and church design. Although the lecture will speak primarily to the Christian tradition, the principles it explores are universal and will therefore offer insight for other forms of sacred, and indeed also non-sacred ‘gallery’ art.
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A culture becomes what it worships. We act as we see. For theocentric cultures therefore, the richness or poverty of their sacred art, architecture, and rituals will have a profound impact on life beyond their temples’ walls. Worship is traditionally conceived to be an image of and a participation in heavenly worship. It is therefore a paradise garden that seeds the cultural land beyond the temple walls. As above, so below. Such worship is the mouth of the infinite spring of God’s blessing. As the prophet Ezekiel wrote of his vision of the temple:
‘water came out from under the threshold of the temple… where the river flows everything will live’
Ezekiel 47.9
In this talk Aidan Hart will explore the profound spiritual principles that inspire the almost two thousand years of the Orthodox Church’s sacred art. This is a wholistic form of liturgy that embraces all five senses, unites matter and spirit, the inner with the outer. To illustrate these principles he will draw on works from his forty years as a professional church artist, and designer, working in icon and wall painting, mosaic, carving and church design. Although the lecture will speak primarily to the Christian tradition, the principles it explores are universal and will therefore offer insight for other forms of sacred, and indeed also non-sacred ‘gallery’ art.
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