The Mad Mother Series by Ann McCoy
The incredible painter Ann McCoy guides us first hand through the powerful archetypal imagery of her paintings, recounting a major initiatory passage catylised by her mothers death. Highly recommended viewing.
Visionary Art Culture
Contemporary visionary and sacred art
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Ava Avatar
By Erik Davis
With its floating Roger Deanscapes and hallucinogenic flora, the manifest world of Avatar instead spoke another truth: that the jungle pantheism that now pervades the psychoactive counterculture has gone thoroughly mainstream. -
“The Dehumanization of Art” and “Mules, without understanding”
In this scholarly article, reprinted with generous permission from the Museum of European Art (USA) Prometheus issue 151, the visionary painter Oleg Korolev describes the spiritually corrosive forces of modernism and its extreme arrogance in denouncing and abandoning the spiritual and sacred art lineages, that have functioned as repositories of sacred symbols and meanings pertaining to the most intimate levels of the spiritual life of man.
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Temple Media : Womb of Creation
In the core of downtown LA is the emergence of a new collection of creative energies, a colourful community united by the a collective yearning for change. Gathering together in the spirit of the artful imagination, these visionaries are reflecting our transition into a new kind of culture
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Singing To The Plants – Interview with Steve Beyer
Steve uses his own compelling experience with meeting and knowing Mestizo Ayahuasca shamans to thread together a detailed understanding of the rituals and worldview of the Ayahuasquero, expressing his understanding of the deep aspects of his subject, such as the realms, entities and forces of the shamanic realms, with a refreshing phenomenological purity, humility, and respect for the mysteries.
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A Sacred and Visionary Art Primer
Sacred art cannot be delineated as a discreet movement, or genre. Sacred and visionary elements are to be found across the spectrum of art, across all times and places. Visionary art is an expression of profound and mysterious levels of consciousness. And it is ancient, the ‘original art’, whos aim is to continually revive and resurrect a profound respect of mystery within the matrix of culture.
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Horacio Bustos Sculptures and Paintings
Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Horacio Bustos is an artist who’s originality lies in a sidereal fusion of warrior-like, religious, medieval, fetishistic and gothic influences.
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Spirit Plant Realms – Interview with Yvonne McGillivray
The common motif across McGillivray’s vast body of work is the inter-relationship of humanity with the plant realm. The human form is frequently depicted as interpenetrated by root, rhizome, vine and leaf. These icon paintings of the deep ecological plant realm are the productions of a ‘vegetalista’, a plant-shaman.
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Kuba Fiedorowicz : Visionary Art / Sacred Art
Interview with talented Australian visionary painter Kuba about his time with Ernst Fuchs and the nature of sacred art and its creation.
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Karen Hsiao – Transmogrification
Karen Hsiao is a shamanic or magical artist whose work veers between beauty and the grotesque. Primarily a figurative painter in her early years, Hsiao has since explored the body and its space through various mediums, creating pieces that are both tactile and intuitive. We talk to her about her intriguing and disturbing series ‘Transmogrification’.
