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The Eternal Icon: Treasures From Russia |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Eric Gibson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,482 Words, 9,017 Characters |
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Gates of Mystery: The Art of Holy Russia is one of those exhibitions that looks backward and forward at the same time. First and foremost it is a deeply affecting look at medieval Russian icons by means of some of that country's most beautiful treasures--primarily paintings, but also including, among its roughly one hundred objects, textiles, illuminated manuscripts, gilt and silver liturgical vessels, wooden sculpture, and carved icons in stone and ivory.
At the same time, however, Gates of Mystery is an exhibition that reminds us, as only the presence of the real thing can, of the influence Russian icon painting exerted on modern artists in Russia at the beginning of this century. And it raises the question whether this particular art form may not once again offer inspiration to pa...
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...is same impulse) rang rather hollow. One felt these artists--Joan Nelson and April Gornik among them--were recycling received ideas and feelings rather than discovering new ones. It could be that contact with these Russian icons, so profoundly original in feeling and form, could engender in this generation of artists the kind of artistic renewal it germinated in another over eighty years ago.
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