Icon in the works of Alexander Chashkin

The icon painter Alexander Ivanovich Chashkin is a disciple of the great master Archimandrite Zinon (Theodore). However, Chashkin creates his own individual world in his work, where the Byzantine artistic tradition is reinterpreted and presented to us as a deeply original version of its interpretation. Thus, the modern Greeks, recognizing the Byzantine basis of his iconography, testify to the specialness of his artistic language within the framework of the artist's personal world. A great role in the formation of Alexander Chashkin's work was played by the spiritual essence of icon painting, which he received from the nun Juliania (Sokolova). In his icons, Mr. Chashkin combines the external beauty of the image with a deep inner content.