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.
Ernst Fuchs Immersed in dreams and symbolism, combined with technical and aesthetic innovation, Ernst Fuchs is a grandmaster of visionary and contemporary sacred art,
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.
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.
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.
An Academy of Visionary Art Set to Launch in Vienna By admin 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.
Psychointegrator Plants by Michael Winkelman 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 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 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 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
Philip Rubinov Jacobson May 31, 2012 admin in Artists 2 Comments Tags: Philip Rubinov Jacobson, USA Recognized as a central figure in both the Fantastic and Visionary genres’ of art.
Why an Art of the Spirit still Struggles to be seen Apr 14, 2008 admin in Blog 1 Comment Tags: modern art, Philip Rubinov Jacobson Professor Philip Rubinov Jacobson All in all, deep works of art are not likely to be found in the modern art museums, galleries and Bienniales, which are the contemporary counterpart to the palace in the fairy tale The Emperor’s New Clothes…