Comments on: A Sacred and Visionary Art Primer

By: Lau reen

Lau reen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:03:53 +0000

Visionary art and the telling of it is like any other art, its a route to the true self travelling on this road of life. You can recount the how’s, why’s, where’s, etc in terms of the experience of your art with endless ways of relating to a particular style. The differences become far more important than the route chosen, or art style chosen, each of us have a focus, a concept of what we want out of life, and if visionary art is you’re chosen style to tell and learn who you are then it becomes a connection to you’re inner life. Art is true, so don’t get carried away with language or put “visionary art” into a separate space, or a coming and going phase. Its art man and its creating, its the god of one’s self contributing to the greater whole, pulling out of one’s greater self the good and the true.

By: Daniel Mirante

Daniel Mirante — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:09:53 +0000

Hi Simon (Demontford)
I don’t disagree with you ! But for those who love to experience the art, as well as make art (like myself), this sort of thought process seems to occur naturally, as does the sharing of such thoughts. I can appreciate if it seems like ‘dancing about architecture’. I like to see the contemporary visionary art as an expression of an ancient spiritual instinct, to direct the mind to the divine, rather than as as a passing trend that will seem very kitsch within a few years !
Daniel

By: Simon Mitchell

Simon Mitchell — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:20:59 +0000

Hi Simon,
Classification of art is part of the general trend of explanation and assimilation we humans can’t seem to stop. I think that there is merit in both the study of art and uninterupted viewing. Several people have expressed their appreciation for the clarity the essay has helped them gain which i think is beautiful to see in itself.

Best wishes,
Simon

By: Simon DeMontford

Simon DeMontford — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:27:34 +0000

What is the point of essays like this ? Why do people always feel the need to categorise art ?

By: Bruce Rimell

Bruce Rimell — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:55:39 +0000

A brilliant and concise statement of Visionary Art. The paragraph about both relativist and absolutist visions of the sacred being true made me smile so much. For me the connection is the human, the artist: both personal and archetypal, individual and transpersonal at one time and in one being.
There’s so much food for thought in this essay, thank you.
Bruce

By: Laurence Caruana

Laurence Caruana — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:07:06 +0000

With this essay you’ve crystallized so much experience & insight into 12 short paragraphs. Each line resonates; each passage reveals; and the whole explodes into an epiphany.

To preface the essay with the dreaded question “What is Visionary Art?” is a risky endeavour. I don’t know if the circle can be squared, or that endless enigma ever be resolved…

But you’ve given us a crystalline jewel through which we can view the many facets of Visionary art with renewed clarity.

I’m eternally grateful…

Laurence

By: Daniel Mirante

Daniel Mirante — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:37:54 +0000

Thankyou David.

By: David Heskin

David Heskin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:46:16 +0000

Bravo, Daniel!
Your essay is an impeccably rendered celebration of the state of the Art in our time as it relates to all Time.
Eloquently sculpting the sacred stone into an illuminated form for all to see and comprehend.
It is essential for this timeless movement to speak of its nature in clarity, while diving deep into the mystery to bring back the fruit of vision.
Thank You!