Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Icons are not mere paintings, and their painting is not a craft but a liturgical art. The Eastern Orthodox Church holds that every icon partakes of the glory of the prototype, breathing an ineluctable essence of divinity. Although the icon painter uses the material means and arts that are at his command, with prayerful approach he shows the eternal aspects...
...Coptic Church traces its tradition to St. Mark, who is believed to have brought Christianity to Egypt, and recalls the days when Alexandria was a rival to Rome as Christendom's foremost city. But the Copts' Monophysite theology (which holds that Christ has only a single nature in which the human and divine are blended) was eventually condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and with the emergence of Islam, Coptic Christianity virtually went underground for centuries...
...modern adherents preserve the ancient Coptic language in their ritual, proudly point to the art and architecture of their monasteries and churches and to their long line of theologians and ascetics. To that line belongs the new 56-year-old Patriarch, who spent five years in the desert as a solitary monk, then, in 1936, rented an abandoned mill in Cairo (for 3? a month), fitted it with a homemade altar and started preaching. His reputation as a holy man grew, and eventually the faithful built him a small church...
From that simple church next week, clad in a black, gilded robe and bearing a diamond-studded crown, Mina the Solitary will journey to the patriarchal palace in Cairo, where he will reside, Copts believe, as St. Mark's 116th successor...
...gave me room to work on other levels. For instance, I've always thought of a painting as a surface; painting it in one color made this very clear. Then I decided that looking at a painting should not require a special kind of focus like going to church. A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator...