Icons – classic course

Icons – classic course

with Uma

23.5.-25.5. 2014

Based on the classic style of the iconography of the Eastern Church, we will step by step get acquainted with the composition of an icon. The icon used to fulfil the task of telling people about the life of Jesus, Mother Mary and the life of the Saints, therefore the depicted contents were “read” by the observers in the church. Thus it was a possibility to inform people, who were unable to read, about the Christian message.

  During a weekend we will observe the specific characteristics and will have an opportunity to make yourown icon according to a template.

More information about the course you will find under :

http://bhaktimarga.org/event/icons-classic-course-uma

A short story with Guruji

Mataji Gitanjali has sent the following short story is about an icon.

Mataji Gitanjali is a well know spiritual painter in Portugal, she paints since some years for projects for Guruji and our centre SPN.

 In Portugal she has her own atelier, where she teaches painting and has is a group of devotees, who paint icons for Bhakti Marga Art.

"One day I was in the Church and Guruji passed by and called me. He asked me to paint St. Andrew Apostle. I had with me a painting that I had brought the day before from Portugal.

Guruji looked at me and said „You painted St. Andre Apostle“?

I answered "Yes". He asked me again and again. I said "Yes".

Then he asked me to go to get the painting. I brought the Icon and gave it to Guruji. He looked at the painting and said - "What a coincidence."