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The word ICON comes from
the Greek word “EIKON” and means image. Icon is an image proposed by the
orthodoxy traditional church to its followers as a symbol of the divine
presence.
The icon is manufactured using a solid wooden piece as a support, which
is covered with several coats of a substance produced with glue made of
skin rabbit and plaster cast. After recovered, this surface is polished
and the drawing is engraved using a special knife. Only after that the
wood support can be re-covered with golden leaves and then tempered
painted which is a mix of natural inks, yolk of eggs and vinegar.
Finally, it is finishing with several coats of lac gum applied to
protect the master-piece.
Painting a traditional icon, the artist reproduces only the rules
already pre-established, being a simple instrument and allowed only to
sign “Xeip” which means hand made by…
Maria Cristina position in respect to the traditional iconographers has
other meanings: using the same technique she releases herself from the
Byzantine rules and gives free course to her imagination creating this
way “Naïf Icons” under several themes as “La Vierge de la Paix”, “Saint
François aux Oiseaux”, “L’Archange Gabriel”, “La Sirène de Marseille”, “Mykonos”,
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