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Volume 8, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1846-8551
  • E-ISSN: 2507-041X

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The paper reviews the development of Christian iconography in the work of visual artists in Slovakia before and after 1989, when there was a change in the social order (the Velvet Revolution). Attention is focused on the gradual transformation of the artists’ interest in traditional motifs, which include Christian iconography, and which face contemporary artists with the challenge of conducting a dialogue with themes that have been depicted for centuries. The text concisely maps the work of six artists from different generations: Julián Fila, Klára Bočkayová, Ladislav Čarný, Dorota Sadovská, Matúš Lányi and Ján Mathé. Ján Mathé is an artist who managed to raise Christian (Marian) iconography to the language of abstraction, and paradoxically was enabled during the normalisation period to site his sculptures with Marian themes in public places in Košice. Among a number of artists we can follow a degree of interpretative tension, where the artists leave us an open field for the formulation of our own point of view. Many of them, with the transformation of Christian iconography to contemporary visual language, have contributed their share to reviving it qualitatively and have shown the creative potential in this theme.

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Članak raspravlja o razvoju kršćanske ikonografije u radovima likovnih umjetnika u Slovačkoj prije 1989. godine i nakon nje, kad se dogodila promjena u društvenom poretku (baršunasta revolucija). Pozornost je usmjerena na prikaz postupnog prijelaza interesa umjetnikā za tradicionalne motive, između ostalog i kršćansku ikonografiju, što je suvremene umjetnike suočilo s izazovom dijaloga s temama prisutnim u umjetnosti stoljećima. Tekst koncizno mapira radove šestero umjetnika različitih generacija: Juliána File, Kláre Bočkayove, Ladislava Čarnýja, Dorote Sadovske, Matúša Lányija i Jána Mathéa. Ján Mathé umjetnik je kojemu je pošlo za rukom podići kršćansku (marijansku) ikonografiju na jezik apstrakcije i kome je, paradoksalno, dopušteno da - za perioda normalizacije - smjesti svoje skulpture marijanske tematike na javna mjesta u Košicama. U određenih umjetnika možemo pronaći stupanj interpretativne tenzije, gdje nam ostavljaju otvoren prostor za formulaciju našeg vlastitog stajališta. Mnogi su od njih - transformacijom kršćanske ikonografije u suvremeni likovni jezik - doprinijeli njezinoj kvalitativnoj obnovi te pokazali kreativni potencijal ove teme.

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2015-06-01
2025-12-06

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