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Feature Article #2

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Our second Feature Article is now published: The Synergy of Art and Science
Our visionary conversation continues with turance's :iconturance: invitation to seek inspiration and direction in the integration of the known and the numinous, of science and art. I am particularly appreciative of turance’s call for artists to find vision in scientific descriptions of nature. Indeed, there is an extraordinary awakening contained in the realization that the universe “out there” is more incredible, more beautiful, more intricate and sublime, than anything we might simply conjure in our own heads. The humility contained in this thought is an explosive engine of discovery. Rather than stewing in the surrealistic stream of a consciousness bound by the cage of one’s own experience, the visionary travels beyond the beyond, seeking to integrate mysterious states of grace with revealed patterns in nature.

In turance's eloquent words, “Science is not necessarily God, but its lessons are divine. Artists can direct their efforts to creating an art, a mythology, that is informed by cosmology and yet is captivating to people of all different worldviews and capacities for understanding.”

You can access turance’s provocative piece here: [link]
Enjoy! And may your thoughts be known and your visions revealed! – Joshua Levin / mythfits

***Members*** Let's get some more articles out into the deviant aether & spread our voice - see the News & Events section.

Are you Visionary?
Visionary art is created by those with the electrifying compulsion to channel wisdom and light into our shadowed reality. The Visionary artist is humble and receptive to a kosmic life force, and undertakes the discipline necessary to bring it into manifestation. He sees beyond normal reality with clarity: not just symbols, but the meanings behind them. Through a process of self-discovery and transformation, the Visionary artist awakens to the mysteries of reality, and compassionately desires to shock others into these same realizations.

The Goal
Visionary artists undertake the joyous responsibility of shaping the future of our world. Here on deviantART, we participate in a global community of artists where we channel so much energy with our work. While we may work in solitude, we can dedicate our efforts to our families, coworkers, friends, enemies, and fellow humans everywhere on the planet. We are here to help shape the mythologies and worldviews of our collective future, and are devoted to offering captivating Visions of not only what the world is, but what it can become.

Joining Our Community
If you consider yourself to be a Visionary artist, or strive to become one, then join our community. We are here to share our Visions with one another, and devote some energy into offering thoughtful and reflective insights into each other's work. This is not for the mere two-eyed; open your eyes of the flesh, of the mind, and of Spirit - to the full spectrum of our dynamic human perception - and bring your Visions into the world with us.
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*OneLifeOneArt:iconOneLifeOneArt: 5 days 19 hours ago
If thats the case, glad I could help:)

Sounds like a great idea, especially w/ the boom in online film/video viewing.

All that good stuff back atcha:D

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~mathismondhut:iconmathismondhut: 5 days 23 hours ago
thanky for encouraging me....

and I think my next work will be a film + performance...

love and respect matthias

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*OneLifeOneArt:iconOneLifeOneArt: 6 days 19 hours ago
It sounds really interesting...if you ever have a chance to film it I would love to see it. As far as acting and theater go, I think they're a great medium for someone like you and they'll probably communicate a lot to the average viewer that a static painting or sculpture can not. The direct energetic connection between yourself and the audience is quite an opportunity for beneficial insight on everyone's part.

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"Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect,
then be sure of one thing: the Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have." -from "Illusions," by Richard Bach
~mathismondhut:iconmathismondhut: May 11, 2008, 12:40:02 AM
it was totally crazy...

a youth cultural what ever woman saw ht espectacl and now we will play the piece for the opening of a modern church..

so it went very well, I will start to write more theater and also start to work as an actor, because it is alot of fun, ...

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*OneLifeOneArt:iconOneLifeOneArt: May 10, 2008, 6:26:10 PM
ahh, it sounds like a spectacle worth attending...I'm glad it went well for you:)

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"Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect,
then be sure of one thing: the Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have." -from "Illusions," by Richard Bach
~mathismondhut:iconmathismondhut: May 10, 2008, 1:01:41 AM
I had a performance yesterday and it made the earth shake, 90% of the visitory didnt dare to talk to me afterwads for at least 20 minutes, all where deeply touched, 3 or for women where emberessed and leaved :D

the energy in ther room was absolutely amazing (lets call it "silence"), totally strange and twisted, I will post some pictures soon..

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~mathismondhut:iconmathismondhut: Apr 23, 2008, 8:54:26 AM
cant wait to see wich works you pick ;)

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*neogothic-jam:iconneogothic-jam: Apr 23, 2008, 6:24:44 AM
thanks man, I will do that as soon as I get something written up, maybe this weekend. You guys are getting my imagination going, all sorts of ideas. j

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~mathismondhut:iconmathismondhut: Apr 23, 2008, 6:20:03 AM
write directly to greg
:iconvisionaryartists:

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*neogothic-jam:iconneogothic-jam: Apr 23, 2008, 5:21:10 AM
I will see if I can write something about a couple pieces and then contact you about joining. I like the idea of writing about our works, what they mean, and how they were created.

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My Ant Web Site [link]
*MindOfLead *TheExquisiteCorpse
~mathismondhut:iconmathismondhut: Apr 23, 2008, 2:21:30 AM
hmm as surrealism is always also in a way visionary and as your surrealism is a very modern interpretation and not tradtitional....

and as your work also enters the darker realms of visionary art from time to time (like guardian) or your demonic beetles and flies..

in one sentence: I would be very happy, if you would join us...

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*neogothic-jam:iconneogothic-jam: Apr 22, 2008, 5:38:48 AM
what a wonderful new group you have here! I will be watching with great interest. I may try to join you guys as well, but am not sure if my art is visionary or not...

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~mathismondhut:iconmathismondhut: Apr 13, 2008, 8:55:25 AM
Dear Friends,

I am sending this to key people in the fields of art, consciousness, humanitarian efforts, and animal activists...that you may pass it on.

In my next book, PROMETHEAN FLAMES, I use the term "deadstallation" to describe the vacant and dead art of "installations" today. I did not expect my term to become literally TRUE. In 2007, the so-called 'artist', Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death.

For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors to the exhibition watched, emotionless, as the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, eventually killed him. The walls were decorated with words made of dog food.

But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts Bienniale of Central America decided that the 'installation' was actually art, not only calling it "art" but AWARDING him the prestigious FIRST PRIZE. Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the Biennial of 2008.

SEE THE VIDEO HERE:

[link]


PLEASE HELP STOP HIM.

sign the petition to stop this asshole by going to;

[link]


It is no wonder that genuine artists who are deeply involved in expressing an integral and spiritual vision are beset with great challenges in the business of contemporary art. 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 by Hans Christian Anderson. Contemporary museums prefer to literally buy
and exhibit Manzoni's ‘canned shit’, piss aquariums with Christ inside, blood and guts on the floor, morons muttering nonsense on a video screen or peuk-filled bottles lit up from behind.

David Lee, editor of Art Review magazine:

“Last year’s Turner Prize winner, Chris Ofili, used elephant dung in his painting. Damien Hirst won the prize in 1997 for displaying the severed halves of a cow and calf in formaldehyde and artist Tony Kaye tried to submit a homeless steel worker for the prize. The judges’ bluster about Epoetry and the other all-purpose drivel they trotted out in defense of their choice is unhelpful to those of us who remain bewildered. It would have been educative for the entire nation to be flies on the wall of the Tate director’s office when the judges were deliberating. We would have learned the criteria used for judging such work and not have had to take on trusting the mindless paeans, more drivel uttered by those snake oil salesmen from the Tate’s Department of Interpretation. As it is we are none the wiser. Is it
art? It might be but it does not look like it to me . . .”

With little or no change, just a few years ago, the Tate Gallery in London once again held its annual Turner Prize Awards, a cultural event that supposedly presents what is considered to be the highest and most valued art being created today. It is the ‘very latest’, what is on the cutting edge of the contemporary art scene and in their mounting of this exhibition they revealed their conniving and irresponsible behavior yet again. The exhibition consisted of works composed of bones, blood and guts, absurd assemblages and installations of garbage, virtually all of it vile and grotesque. To this, on the other side of the world, now we can add the murder of a dog as an exhibition in 2007 with a scheduled re-appearance in November, 2008.

Oy vey, if I could only get my hands on this bastard-excuse for a human being, and make him part of my next exhibition....now what would that look like???

Love
Prof Phil





website: [link]
myspace: [link]

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~labornthyn:iconlabornthyn: Apr 12, 2008, 2:18:23 PM
Spring usually disturbs me (at least in the beginning), maybe it is the fact of my birthday being on the Equinox that makes it intense, I don't know. This spring in Seattle is looking quite beautiful though. Many cherry blossoms...
~mathismondhut:iconmathismondhut: Apr 12, 2008, 11:50:07 AM
I enjoy the light in spring, the whole world looks beautiful..its a very special light situation now..makes me fall in love with everything the sun touches

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~labornthyn:iconlabornthyn: Apr 11, 2008, 7:10:40 PM
Revel in Springtime now!
~mathismondhut:iconmathismondhut: Apr 10, 2008, 5:56:00 AM
I guess we are all in the same boat, I stopped the dream of living from my art and work a little here and there, and still I have time to paint, thats ok I have other gifts from making art then beeing successfull or rich...

I now take my exhibitions more like a chance to evoke some old ideals, connect the people(Audience) to art again, make them feel freedome of mind and soul...and I stopped to sell works within my exhibitions....so no prices are underneath just what te work is about---

my next exhibition will evoke this idea the first time (its just one day open) and it will be a mystery-theater-exhibition, I wrote a theater specially for this one exhibtion and the theater will happen in the middle of the audience and pictures...will be more of a big happening then a Marked where I try to sell art that nobody wants to buy...

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~mathismondhut:iconmathismondhut: Apr 8, 2008, 7:08:03 AM
nice to meet you :)

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~Thenextyoshitaka:iconThenextyoshitaka: Apr 6, 2008, 7:42:51 PM
The study of expression, primarily of the emotions, and principally via the face, has a long and complex history. From Aristotle onwards, physiognomy has been the means of reading and judging character based on the expressions of the face. In sum, physiognomists recognized the face as an index of emotion and (moral) character; and physiognomy offered a way of conceptualizing these particular observations in terms of general categories or theories. The purpose of physiognomy was to identify and to describe the common forms that organized the diversity of appearances, and, as such, it functioned in a profoundly normative manner — as the determinant of what was common to all people and all things in the physical world. At best, physiognomy provided an explanation of human nature in terms of a uniform order of types or kinds, which worked by translating particular observations into general theories of character and emotion. At worst, it was disparaged as a mystical and highly deterministic practice, more akin to fortune-telling than to science, and cast as a poor resemblance of its family relation, phrenology.

A number of thinkers have attempted to describe and explain how the desire to see the workings of the mind, and ultimately the soul, through the face answers these questions about man, mind, and nature. Aristotle, Charles Le Brun, Johann Caspar Lavater, and Charles Darwin are the most notable. The challenge they faced was how to establish the grounds upon which their teachings could be viewed as true or rejected as false. One of the earliest philosophical treatises on physiognomy, and the first attempt to present physiognomy as a hermeneutic, and possibly scientific, method, was a work thought to be written by Aristotle, Physiognomica, which identified three categories of physiognomic judgement — the zoological, the ethnological, and the pathognomical. Yet what emerges after Aristotle is a complex relationship between the classical mode of reading and judging character — physiognomy — and the rise and triumph of inner, scientific understandings of expression based on physiology. Such a relationship originates with the work of Charles Le Brun, who believed an understanding of expression was the key to discerning the passions or the activities of the mind (soul). Based on Descartes' theory of the passions, Le Brun's Conférence sur l'expression générale et particulière (1668) sought to present a rational and coherent theory of expression. Le Brun wanted to demonstrate the necessary and natural correspondence between the movements of the passions and the movements of the facial muscles, and, from this, to deduce the laws of expression. A knowledge of the principles, psychological and physiological, which directed these activities and their external appearance would, he claimed, release the artist from simply copying nature and allow him to create his own images, which would be directed by, and maybe even improve on, the processes of nature.

This notion of ‘improvement’ was of crucial importance to Johann Caspar Lavater in his Essays on Physiognomy (1789-93). In his hands, each and every attempt to read and judge character was a means of ascribing an essence to human nature that imagined there was something hidden from external appearances, which, once discovered, made them more purposeful and more substantial. One could arrive at a definition of man by imputing a certain kind of ‘spirit’ from the ‘surface’ appearance of an individual. But the point was that Lavaterian physiognomy enabled the impressions of sense to be translated into common sense — an essential and ideological form, which comprehended order and unity from the appearances of things. The appeal of essentialism for Lavater lay in its capacity to validate a ‘science’ of man based on a theory of natural kinds. But the problem of essentialism for physiognomy was that it imagined its ‘science’ as the result of an intuitive understanding of the intrinsic properties and purposes of things. So, whilst essentialism underwrote Lavater's ‘science’ of man, it was also, and not incidentally, the cause of its many inconsistencies.

There is no doubt that Charles Darwin was sceptical about the claims of physiognomy with regard to expression and emotion. Nonetheless, it is interesting that his study of expression makes a number of contradictory claims about the possibility and plausibility of conducting a scientific analysis of expression. Darwin's oft-neglected work, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), was self-consciously presented as the cornerstone of his evolutionary theory — the means of demonstrating once and for all that man was not a separate and divinely created species but continuous with other species. An evolutionary account of expression was not concerned with teleological explanations of physical attributes; rather, it was directed towards finding a means of understanding the process through which expressions are acquired. The result was a study of expression that tried to identify specific mental and emotional states as well as their corresponding expressions (by concentrating on their motor activity), and then map their common descent through groups of related organisms. If this could be done, then human feelings like love, anger, fear, and grief could be treated as habits and shown to have clearly recognizable parallels, perhaps even origins, in the animal world.

The rise and triumph of these inner, scientific rationales for the expression of the emotions placed the study of expression on new ground. Indeed, the evolutionary explanation of expression given by Darwin (and taken to its logical, albeit odious, conclusion by Francis Galton, father of eugenics) is both the long-term outcome of physiognomical teachings and the reason for their dissolution. As we reflect on the impact of physiognomy, there is much to suggest that its demise is no bad thing.



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~WadeFurlong:iconWadeFurlong: Apr 6, 2008, 6:52:49 PM
I don't know about the 'club' version of face reading, but I know about face reading from my own personal experience. What do you mean exactly?

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~Thenextyoshitaka:iconThenextyoshitaka: Apr 6, 2008, 1:20:07 PM
Hey how goes it wade? Do you know the science of face reading?

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~Thenextyoshitaka:iconThenextyoshitaka: Apr 6, 2008, 1:18:03 PM
Does anyone know of a place I could stay? I could sleep on the floor or some funds I can barrow for art? Cause I just had a show and I worked all month, even losing weight and yet all my effort was for nothing. Well you know what I mean. Well I did sell one painting, only for a hundered lousy bucks though. But it's like I'm regressing in a way but everything else is making serious progression.

Well whatever man, I hope I can help evolve our language of art, but at this rate and location It looks like it might take longer than expected cause I need to work on a way to translate it to common folky folk.

Peace In

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~Thenextyoshitaka:iconThenextyoshitaka: Apr 6, 2008, 12:59:28 PM
Ok, I'ma gonna join. My names Christian.

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~WadeFurlong:iconWadeFurlong: Apr 5, 2008, 9:41:10 PM
;)

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*visionaryartists:iconvisionaryartists: Apr 4, 2008, 2:41:41 PM
Wade
we would love for you to join. See the Joining, Submissions, & Guidelines section in our journal.
-turance