The first meeting of the educational cycle “Man: Faith and Culture” took place in Vyborgtranslated

On November 8, the first meeting of the educational cycle “Man: Faith and Culture,” dedicated to Russian fine art and the Christian understanding of man, took place at the Hermitage-Vyborg exhibition center.

The project is being implemented jointly by the Vyborg Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Hermitage-Vyborg Exhibition Center with the methodological assistance of the Synodal Missionary Department of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The host of the series is the chairman of the missionary department of the Vyborg diocese, master of theology, cultural scientist, priest Mikhail Kotov.

The first meeting was held under the title “Why does art seek a person?” The participants addressed one of the central questions of artistic culture: why a person, his face, fate, experiences and inner world have remained the subject of close attention of artists for centuries.

The conversation was built around the works of outstanding Russian painters Vasily Tropinin, Vasily Perov, Ilya Repin and Ivan Kramskoy. Using four portraits as an example, participants reflected on how art reveals the human personality and what ideas about dignity, freedom, suffering and human destiny are expressed in painting.…