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Journal of Cosmic Play. Exploring Visionary Art, Sacred Arts, Deep Ecology and Mystical Traditions

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    LILA covers emerging contemporary visionary and sacred art, artists, exhibitions, and related themes such as deep ecology, shamanism, mythology and new global world culture.

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    Satty

    Restoring the Future oil/ canvas 41 x 66 inches 2010

    Mark Henson

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    Odd Nerdrum

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    Agostino Arrivabene

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    Philip Rubinov Jacobson

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    A.Andrew Gonzalez

     

     

    Featured Artists

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    HR Giger

    H. R. Giger is one of the world’s foremost artists of Fantastic Realism. His airbrush innovations and ‘biomechanical’ aesthetics have been highly influential upon western culture.

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    Ernst Fuchs

    Immersed in dreams and symbolism, combined with technical and aesthetic innovation, Ernst Fuchs is a grandmaster of visionary and contemporary sacred art,

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  • Sacred & Visionary Arts

    Latest Sacred & Visionary Art Features »

    Martin Stensaas

    Martin Stensaas – Hologram Scriptures

    By Daniel Mirante

    Martin Stensaas approaches archetypal subjects in his painting, with a whorling, dynamic, energy, layered with iconic scriptures arrayed in the appearance of multidimensional holograms. In this interview, we talk about the development and themes running through his art.

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    Gaian Entelechy – Jake Kobrin

    By Jake Kobrin

    This artwork GAIAN ENTELECHY is a tribute to this emerging visionary culture. It is a representation of the Earth spirit, of a noble consciousness that exists within the natural world. The Earth is alive. And we are a part of it.

    Healing by Autumn Skye Morrison

    Ars Sacrum – A Visionary Art Primer

    By Daniel Mirante

    Sacred art connects and integrates wisdom lines and knowledge traditions across space and time. It performs this through a traditionalism, an honoring of its antecedents, its elders, its generational progression, the creative gnostic flame passed from master to apprentice : sometimes directly, sometimes through distant strands of inter-connectivity.

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    An Academy of Visionary Art Set to Launch in Vienna

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    The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art has just launched, offering courses, full academy training, exhibitions, publications and more. It is very significant in that it establishes a permanent center of operation for the re-emergence of sacred and visionary art into Western culture.

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    • Sacred Art Theory History and Lineages

    Lila has charted the contemporary visionary and sacred art movement by talking directly to those involved. Explore the themes, motifs, inspirations and approaches to creativity found in visionary art.

  • Blog

    Latest blog news & events »

    Creativity - workshop with Daniel Mirante and Judith Way

    Creativity, Visionary Art Workshops

    Posted June 8, 2013

    Aloria Weaver - UnioMystica

    Visionary Art and Culture Month

    Posted April 9, 2013

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    Support fund for Yvonne McGillivray

    Posted April 3, 2013

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    An Academy of Visionary Art Set to Launch in Vienna

    Posted January 25, 2013

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    EnQuête du Sacré – “Questing the Sacred” Visionary Art Paris

    Posted August 25, 2012

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    Fantastic Generations, Uncommon Visions, Vienna

    Posted July 28, 2012

  • Global Visionary Culture

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    Psychointegrator Plants by Michael Winkelman

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    The “sacred plants”, which are often called hallucinogens and psychedelics, have played important roles in ancient and contemporary societies, evoking powerful spiritual, emotional, social and cognitive reactions. Their importance for humanity is attested to by findings in many areas.

    Ritual by The Bricoleur

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    Ritual can also be seen as a material ‘scaffolding’ that facilitates movement through immaterial informational fields (what Jung could call the collective unconscious). This scaffolding is deliberately designed to facilitate one or more of the natural (inherent in all human consciousness and culture) processes of change.

    The New Eye – Visionary Art and Tradition by Erik Davis

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    The worlds visited by the shaman, the seer, the sibyl, and the prophet are all outposts of the mundus imaginalis. But this imaginal world is also produced through the labor of traditional sacred artists, who have incarnated these visions in the mythic maps, sacred geometries, and iconographies of tribes and cultures the world over.

    On Being God – Transcendentalism and Romanticism : A Mystical Approach by Tim Hardwick

    Thomas Cole. Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. 1828

    The intention of this study is to demonstrate the occurrence of mystical experience in the English Romantic and American Transcendental literary traditions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The characteristics of this phenomenon are explored and identified in the analysis and their influence is assessed

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Interviews

Martin Stensaas – Hologram Scriptures

Jun 6, 2013 Daniel Mirante in Interviews 3 Comments Tags: Martin Stensaas

Martin Stensaas –  Hologram Scriptures

Martin Stensaas approaches archetypal subjects in his painting, with a whorling, dynamic, energy, layered with iconic scriptures arrayed in the appearance of multidimensional holograms. In this interview, we talk about the development and themes running through his art.

Colin Christian – Lines made Flesh

Jun 20, 2012 Arany Sarkan in Interviews No Comments Tags: cartoon, erotic, sculpture

Colin Christian – Lines made Flesh

Colin Christian is a full time artist, renowned for his sculptures, which drawy inspiration from sci-fi movies, anime, ambient electronic music and H.P. Lovecraft. We talk to him about his life, inspirations and artistic process.

The Four Angels of the Apocalypse

Jun 1, 2012 Aloria Weaver and David Heskin in Interviews No Comments Tags: Aloria Weaver, David Heskin, dreaming co:nexus

The Four Angels of the Apocalypse

This singular story, told across all cultures and religions since the beginning, has a much deeper cosmological interpretation when seen through myth and archetype.

The Man with the Golden Coin

May 4, 2012 Oleg Korolev in Interviews, Sacred Art Theory History and Lineages 1 Comment Tags: Kitsch, Odd Nerdrum, Oleg Korolev

The Man with the Golden Coin

The artist cannot realize that the problem is in the art system, which still acts as a hidden tool of the Cultural war, passing off a genuine Soviet-style of the “Planning economics” as the “Free market” of Capitalism.

New works by Oleg Korolev – Alchemy of Rurik

Apr 11, 2012 Oleg Korolev in Interviews 1 Comment Tags: Oleg Korolev, Russia

New works by Oleg Korolev – Alchemy of Rurik

In general the Slavonic native religions have a lot in common with the rest of the Indo-European spiritual traditions and have a direct connection to Vedanta. A Russian word Veda (t’) means “to know” or just a “knowledge”, “awareness”, came from Sanskrit.

The New Eye – Visionary Art and Tradition

Feb 10, 2012 Erik Davis in Global visionary culture, Interviews 3 Comments Tags: COSM, Erik Davis

The New Eye – Visionary Art and Tradition

The worlds visited by the shaman, the seer, the sibyl, and the prophet are all outposts of the mundus imaginalis. But this imaginal world is also produced through the labor of traditional sacred artists, who have incarnated these visions in the mythic maps, sacred geometries, and iconographies of tribes and cultures the world over.

Interview with Amanda Sage : Painter of Revolution

Feb 9, 2012 Carrie Ann Baade in Interviews 1 Comment Tags: Amanda Sage, Carrie Ann Baade, political art

Interview with Amanda Sage : Painter of Revolution

The painting is titled ‘ANA-SUROMAI’ which quite literally means ‘to lift the skirt’ derived from the Greek language. This painting is an outcry, an ultimatum, a visual denouncement of the system that has brought our world to a state of chaos with an ever widening gap between those that make decisions and those that are subject to those decisions.

Meeting the feathered snake in the Cathedral of Nature

Dec 1, 2011 Liba Waring Stambollion in Interviews 3 Comments

Meeting the feathered snake in the Cathedral of Nature

Expose of the painting and prose of Liba Waring Stambollion.

Real Poetic Magic – Interview with Jim Harter

Dec 1, 2011 Jim Harter and Daniel Mirante in Interviews 3 Comments Tags: Collage, psychedelic

Real Poetic Magic – Interview with Jim Harter

The combination of symbols expresses ideas. They help to define each other and make a larger statement. They offer the potential of creating an art laden with rich and substantive meaning. However this potential is contingent on the progress that one makes in their own spiritual development.

“Sleeping Sickness” – Mia Araujo talks process

Dec 1, 2011 Mia Araujo in Interviews 1 Comment Tags: fairy tales, Mia Araujo

“Sleeping Sickness” – Mia Araujo talks process

There are a number of references and metaphors in this piece, the largest being that of sleep- the aristocracy is lulled to sleep with music, beauty, riches, confections, wines, etc…

Michael by Oleg Korolev

Nov 1, 2011 Oleg Korolev in Interviews 13 Comments Tags: Oleg Korolev

Michael by Oleg Korolev

A master of 21st century sacred art, Oleg Korolev generously shares and discusses his latest work, ‘Michael’ with Lila.

Kuba – House of Many Mansions

Sep 25, 2011 Kuba Fiedorowicz in Interviews 2 Comments Tags: Kuba Fiedorowicz

Kuba – House of Many Mansions

Lila is proud to present Kuba Fiedorowicz latest outstanding work, ‘House of Many Mansions’ and a canto that relates to the piece.

Archetypes & Ecologies – Agostino Arrivabene

May 29, 2011 Daniel Mirante in Expose, Global visionary culture, Interviews, Sacred Art Theory History and Lineages 8 Comments Tags: fantastic realism, italy, oil painting, Old master

Archetypes & Ecologies – Agostino Arrivabene

The painting of Agostino Arrivabene are steeped in the archetypal wisdoms and depths found in classical and ancient mythology. Painting is a precision instrument in order to explore that which is not cognizable through science and rationality.

“Heaven and Hell” – By Dennis Konstantin

Jan 2, 2011 Daniel Mirante in Expose, Interviews 2 Comments Tags: Germany, Pop Surrealism, Psychedelic art

“Heaven and Hell”  – By Dennis Konstantin

An illustrated guide to our journey on earth. The Original is 120cm * 200cm | acrylics on canvas

Autumn Skye Morrison Interview – Language of Light

Dec 30, 2010 Daniel Mirante in Interviews 12 Comments Tags: Autumn Skye Morrison, Canada, ecology

Autumn Skye Morrison Interview – Language of Light

In this exclusive interview with young Canadian visionary painter Autumn Skye Morrison, we hear in depth about the spiritual process of staying present and bearing witness to the spiritual energies and elements at play within the creation of Art. “I aim to share honesty and awakening. To celebrate this fantastic adventure. To inspire and be inspired.”

“The Dehumanization of Art” and “mules, without understanding”. Part 2. An Alternative to Modernism

Dec 23, 2010 Oleg Korolev in Interviews, Sacred Art Theory History and Lineages No Comments Tags: fantastic realism, modern art, modernism, Oleg Korolev

“The Dehumanization of Art” and “mules, without understanding”. Part 2.  An Alternative to Modernism

Oleg Korolev describes the spiritual vivifying of Sacred Art as an alternative to the blind alley of Modernism. “Visionary Art” is pointing to the height of the human Transcendence. “Conventional Art” has come to its bottom point, and this situation gives to the constant of the Art of Transcendence a chance to manifest itself again.

Meredith Dittmar – Psychepolymereganics

Nov 18, 2010 Daniel Mirante in Interviews 7 Comments Tags: Meredith Dittmar, sculpture

Meredith Dittmar – Psychepolymereganics

36 year old Portland artist Meredith Dittmar turned from multimedia to sculpture, creating beings and beautiful luminous worlds of human-animal-plant-energy through the medium of polymer clay.

Ram Dass by Martina Hoffmann

Sep 26, 2010 Daniel Mirante in Global visionary culture, Interviews 1 Comment Tags: Martina Hoffmann, teacher

Ram Dass by Martina Hoffmann

The spiritual teacher Ram Dass is the subject of Martina Hoffmann’s latest masterly painting. It was created in harmonious and loving synergy between the artist and her subject.

Art by Mia Araujo

Jul 5, 2010 Daniel Mirante in Interviews No Comments Tags: fairytale, Mia, Mythos

Art by Mia Araujo

Mia believes that all individuals contain an entire universe within them, which is invisible to the naked eye. Her work concentrates on giving shape to the unseen forces in her subjects – their thoughts, memories, emotions and complex histories.

Enchanted Illustrations of Kashima Echo

Apr 6, 2010 Daniel Mirante in Interviews 1 Comment Tags: illustration, Japan, Kashima

Kashima Echo is an illustrator based in Tokyo, Japan, and is a member of the International Fantastic Art Association. Kashima brings through fresh, clear, and simultaniously cute, ugly, beautiful and morbid images through, carrying resonances of the perverse illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, and the victorian fairy artist Arthur Rackham, amongst others.

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