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Article: Iconography gave painter a new vision of the world and God.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- October 18, 2000
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DALLAS _ With every layer of glue and paint and varnish, Vladimir Grigorenko is building a bridge to God. The bridge of faith has already carried him from the faith-challenged post-Soviet Ukraine to St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral in Dallas, where he is creating a series of religious images, or icons, for the new building.
For Orthodox Christianity, icons are more than pictures, and an iconographer is more than a painter.
"Iconography is not just a form of art," Grigorenko explained through a translator recently. "It's a form of service to God."
Grigorenko, 35, was a painter before he was a believer. The Ukraine of his childhood was part of the ...