Iconographers set aside their own creativity to focus on symbolism and precise recreation of religious art.
TENNESSEE---It is religious art full of symbolism created to bring people closer to God. The practice of making icons dates back more than one thousand years and continues today here is Knoxville. They applying paint to create images but it is not simply painting. "It's kind of formulamatic. There are certain things you do and don't do," Jim Phillips said. These members of the East Tennessee Iconographers Guild paint, or write, icons. It's a particular type of religious art. Jim Phillips explained that the process is prayerful and precise. "I'm not rendering something from my imagination or standing outside and drawing my trees and painting that in. I'm using a picture of an icon that's been around forever," he said. [link]
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