The Door of Perception
The art of the Australian native people is one of the oldest artistic traditions alive. This selection shows paintings from the mid-fifties until now by artists from the Arnhem Land region in Northern Australia.
I think the deeper meaning of the depicted myths is impossible to decode for an outsider. But even the contemplation on an outer level makes us feel their underlying unity with the land and their ancestors.
Source: exhibition catalogue “Gemaltes Land” — 1994
There is already another post about Philip Kirkland but these images I’ve just found deserve to stand alone.
In my point of view these 3D animations of mandelbrot sets are a very effective way of getting a glimpse of infinity
It is rarely possible that an artist’s vision pierces me to the heart at first glance. Dutch artist Saskia Olde-Wolbers did so. Her clear as a bell vision is unmistakable and unique.
Richard Mosse‘s infrared photography makes you think about the very act of perception.
Swiatoslaw Wojtkowiak is a daredevil with a good eye and the guts to go beyond what meets the eye.
The book Kunstformen der Natur (German for Art Forms of Nature) by the biologist Ernst Haeckel is a masterpiece of art and science.
Pedro Friedeberg and Frida Kahlo were the only two Mexican artists recognized by Andre Breton as part of the Surrealist movement.
I spent all my schooldays in this kind of architecture. But I was never taught about Anthroposophy. I wish to…
Filmed mostly on a stationary 16mm camera, this documentary is the modern-day Walden.
Over more than fifty years of creating, Schwertberger’s themes and painting style evolve continuously. The path led from a figurative fantastic realism to an almost abstract, process-like creative flow.
Maxfield Parrish captures a light mood in his paintings that feels supernatural and very real and tangible at the same time.
A personal project exploring the real world of scientific research. Not the stainless steel surfaces bathed in purple light, but real people in their basements working on selfbuilt contraptions
Bălaşa paints a unique universe, full of archetypal figures and metaphysical themes. He called it Cosmic Romanticism.
A trialogue on chaos and the world soul, featuring Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham – three brilliant minds sharing their views on life and the structure of reality.
I wanted to make a post about the Brazilian visionary artist Tuco Amalfi for some time already. Now I saw…
Rajni Perera paints a vibrant sci-fi universe ruled by hybrid deities, demons, and powerful black heroines.
This is a simple yet powerful method for clear, empathic communication beneficial for all of us.
The feelings provoked by Robert Steven Connett’s paintings vary widely. Some will see mostly the beautiful and the interesting, and others will see only the unsettling.
The Brazilian-born photographer Valdir Cruz has lived in the United States for more than thirty years, yet much of his…
“The American literature doesn’t have a more beautiful and more profound book than Walden” commented Hermann Hesse. And I knew…
