Eyvind Earle is a master of contemplative landscape paintings. To me these dream-like sceneries are highly hypnotising. And after watching the documentary at the end of the post you will know — he also led his life with mastery.
Gerhard Riebicke
Ways to Strength and Beauty
Gerhard Riebicke’s photography paved the way for the awakening of the Lebensreform movement in the early 20th century.
Emil Bisttram
And the Transcendental Painting Group
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
Anthroposophic
Architecture
I spent all my schooldays in this kind of architecture. But I was never taught about Anthroposophy. I wish to…
Raffaello Ossola
Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea
The subject of Swiss painter Raffaello Ossola is consistent. He paints gateways into an ethereal realm.
Female Pentimento
The Permeability of Reality
Apocalyptic landscapes imbued with an ominous presence, that reminds me of the frailty of everything we deem safe and irrefutable.
Illustrating
Infinity
In my point of view these 3D animations of mandelbrot sets are a very effective way of getting a glimpse of infinity
Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
This film is based on the 1967 book of the same name. It’s a radical critique of mass marketing and its role in the alienation of modern society.
Karl Blossfeldt
Urformen der Kunst
Karl Blossfeldt was an attentive observers of nature, a teacher of contemplation.
María Medem
Dancing between Earth and Sky
A perfect summer night and the mental state of being truly present to the current moment in time.
Buckminster Fuller
Everything I Know
R. Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life’s work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of his major inventions and discoveries.
Jerry Uelsmann
Photo Synthesis
Jerry Uelsmann uses the technique of combination printing to create his dreamlike scenes.
Andy Goldsworthy
Working With Time
Goldsworthy is at play with the relentless flow of the elements, forming fragile and temporary moments in time.
Charles Fréger
Europe’s Wild Men
A primal heart still beats in Europe. Rural people all over the continent kept the connection to nature’s rhythm and celebrate the seasonal cycle. They invoke death but bestow fertile life.
Orgyan Chopel
New Visions in Thangkas
Orgyan Chopel translates cryptic Buddhism into a simplified language of symbols, easier to understand and accept.
Vaka Valo
Dream Diaries
Schematic illustrations scanned from instruction manuals turned into unsettling nightmares. He achieves a dreamlike other-worldliness only reached by few artists.
Aimei Ozaki
Plant contemplations
Cacti and succulents are plants with fascinating characteristics. And this series portrays them in the most beautiful way.
Asger Carlsen
Studies on flexibility of relation
Asger Carlsen’s pictures make me think about my human form and its range of functions.
James Turrell
Perceive your Perceiving
Turrell is an artist who works with the nature of perception. He uses light to make you perceive your perceiving.
Islamic architecture
Kaleidoscopes of adoration
Gazing up into the kaleidoscopic worlds of these Iranian mosque ceilings invokes a feeling of transcendental glory.
Charles Burchfield
The Shimmer of Nature
Burchfield’s nature scenes strike me as among the most experiential art I know, as he’s able to put you right into his synesthetic experience of nature.
