Online Journal for Iconography

Truth in Art

Truth in Art • Vol. 9 (Summer) 2022

Dostoevsky and the Symbol of The Crystal Palace

by Stephen Muse

Truth in Art • Vol. 8 (Winter) 2022

A Thought about Icons and Dialogue in Color with Contemporary Culture

by Stephen Muse

Truth in Art • Vol. 7 (Spring) 2021

The Elder Atanasije Breaks Through The Darkness Of Night With Prayer

by Maxim Vasiljevic

Truth in Art • Vol. 2 (Spring) 2018

What Can the Christian Orthodox Icon Offer in the Post-Modern World?

by George Kordis

Truth in Art • Vol. 1 (Autumn) 2017

Surrealist Elements in Byzantine Painting

by Stamatis Skliris

Truth in Art • Vol. 1 (Autumn) 2017

Paradox, Revelation, and Surprise

by Maxim Vasiljevic

The heart of the icon is located behind, not in front of the official curtain. The heart of the icon is the depicted Saint himself, and not the drawing or its color. We are presenting ideas that have fertile roots. The principle (the canon) is the uniqueness of a person and nothing more. There is always space for the originality of iconographic themes. You can always express something old in a new way. The heart of the icon beats in Paradise. It is the source of the circulating blood and life within each icon. This idea promotes poetic creativity, rather than elaborate studies. Send us sketches, unfinished drawings, or pictures so that we may publish them before they're done!