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Our second Feature Article is now published:
The Synergy of Art and ScienceOur visionary conversation continues with turance's
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
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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.
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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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Sounds like a great idea, especially w/ the boom in online film/video viewing.
All that good stuff back atcha
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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
and I think my next work will be a film + performance...
love and respect matthias
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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
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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"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
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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*MindOfLead *TheExquisiteCorpse
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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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:
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PLEASE HELP STOP HIM.
sign the petition to stop this asshole by going to;
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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
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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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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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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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