Awhile back I bought George Kordis's "Icon as Communion". It's a bit of a hard read, but I did my best... and then put it down.
Today I understood what he was saying.
Byzantine aesthetics assumes that the image is coming off the surface, at you, the viewer. And the way it comes off the surface has to be uniform, in a way that's pleasing. In other words, it has to have a rhythm.
This is the sketch where I finally understood that.
Although anyone who pretends that I mastered it or even do it well is lying.
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