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.
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.
Lila is proud to present this excellent overview of visionary art by Rob Percival. “Fuchs speaks elusively of “a secret art whose traces I have discovered with almost all people and cultures, but also in nature itself, there where the primeval world appears.” The nucleus of this secret art is a shared grammar, ‘ein verschollener Stil’, … this secret grammar is the unifying factor that underpins the bewildering diversity of the genre.”
Ernst Fuchs – The Spirit of Mercury, 1954.The art of Fuchs forces an examination of the Western roots of spirituality, affirming revelatory spiritual power within Christianity. In the wake of Darwinism, and the world wars this has not been a popular position. And yet Fuchs himself had to work through the perplexities and obscurities, and the devestation of post-war Europe, to find the shining pearl hidden in the mire of matter.