History Of Orthodox Icons And Formation Process Of Russian Icons

Russia is an Eastern Orthodox country.Consideration the icon painting as a kind of art,confirms that Russian people are craving for faith.In Russia,the icon paintings are often placed in the church and some public places.Devout Orthodox believers consider icon paintings as treasures,under the people's eyes they can worship in front of icons,touch it,kiss and express all their expectations and prays facing the icon.Most of the Orthodox followers would like to place icon paintings at their homes in the notable and prominent place to let everyone see it,because Orthodox believers can pray in front of it quite often ask for goods and health for family members.Furthermore,a lot of Orthodox believers take small icons with them everywhere so that they are able to pray to the saints at any time.The fact,that a lot of Russian icon paintings avoided wars and man-made destructions and till now can be presented for million eyes in their original appearance,makes Russian icon paintings more valuable.The main discussion of this paper includes such topics as:the origins of the Russian traditional icon painting,the development of icon painting in Russia and the decorative features of Russian icons.Originally,the icon painting is coming from Byzantium and getting it's first development over there.In 988 A.D.,the capital of ancient Russia-Kiev,converted the whole country into Christianity,following these changes,the new form of art-icon painting came to Russia and started it's development on the ancient Russian territory.In combination with Russian traditional folk art,icon painting became a significant decorative feature under the efforts of artists,painters,architectures and decorators.Icon paintings as a part of art stand at an outstanding position of the whole traditional Russian art and culture.This paper's research will help to understand the development and statement of Russian art,summarize and investigate characteristics and features of Russian icons and give the deeper understanding of Orthodox culture.