Commentary

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Icon From the Greek "eikon" means an image, or representation, but in art, is a holy image to which special veneration is given.

Parsunas

Fom the Latin, a  “persona” the parsunas is a type of portrait painting that developed in Russia in the late sixteenth century in a transition between traditional icon painting and Westernized, "realistic" portraiture. Retaining the one-dimensional style of icons, parsunas were made into memorials of contemporary secular figures. 

The emergence of parsunas coincided with the decline of traditional icon painting and the acceptance of Western European style during the eighteenth century.

 

Iconographic Text
Examples of modern Russian visual writing are: Ivan Zavialov drawing (1921), Heorhii Narbut's fifteen alphabet letters for Abetka (Alphabet) (1917), Ivan Zavislov's Letters (1921), and Erte's (Romain de Tirtoff see "Alphabet Body") Alphabet Series (1928) later printed in 1976. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heorhii Narbut's fifteen alphabet letters for Abetka