IKONesque

About This Group

We share the human trait of seeking the archetypal, supreme representation, which we express in our art as an object of contemplation or adulation : iconic images. Or, IKONesque, a word coined by IaninBagdad.

Show us your icons. IKONesque is an ecumenical Group: a place for thoughtful discussion and display of symbolic representations of universal concepts that have meaning in your life. If you work in the “traditional” medium of the ikon, please submit it here, but this is not a criterion for the group. Images we seek are those that are in the symbolic icon style, be it spiritual or secular. Your icon might be a saint, Madonna & child, a totem or symbol, a gilded Byzantine figure, a concept, or The Kitchen God! It might be the subject or the symbols contained in the image, but it may also be the meaning of the image, its exterior appearance (eg. a gold-byzantine-like feeling, or blurred/transcendal background, or a halo, or the pose of the portraited person, the choice of the colours…) or even the use of the image or object that make it an icon.

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AMENDED GUIDELINES…and DEFINITION Discussion – Please Read!

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~ FEATURED IMAGE – FEBRUARY/MARCH ~

“AN ALTAR FOR OUR OWN PRIVATE IDOLS” by Alvaro Sanchez.

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