Divination in Art

[solun]

We talk a lot about the art of divination, but we can divine art as well.

Who are some of your favorite 'spiritual' artists, or artists as they may be?

My avatar is painted by Barry Stevens. He has a great website of designs and prints for sale at http://www.mandalas.freeserve.co.uk/leafleta.htm

Here's another favorite of mine from his site (36 rainbow lotus)
be sure to click the link to enlarge the image if you go there

These images, while appearing very static as mandalas, are charged with color and have a vibratory essence. That is , there is something timeless and eternal about them, but at the same time, they are full of energy and movement for me. They express potentiality in every moment. Plus, the color just feels good. It's like drinking vitamin water light.

Also good -
www.earthmandalas.com although this site was down when I checked it.

 

[meng]

mandala fun

 

[meng]

The second one down (above) is called 'cranes', and probably should have put it in the 61 thread.

Hope this isn't too showy of me, but I do enjoy making them. Usually they seem to make themselves, and have sort of vague stories. This one is called 'spider enlightenment', from a childhood fear of spiders to enlightenment through what is feared.

This came through sheer frustration toward the limits of words.

happiness on the fence

particles

 

[lucia]

nice one meng they are lovely. I like it when I fall through the door from a nightshift, collapse in a heap with laptop and quilt and lo and behold there's something special.

thanks

Lucia

 

[maremaria]

Who are some of your favorite 'spiritual' artists, or artists as they may be?

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Hi Solun

I like Van Gogh very much but I love every piece of art that talks to me and express for me things I can not find the words to express.

thanks for sharing the link for mandals

Meng, beautiful images


Speaking of mandals , here is something that at the begining intented to be a mandala , but during the process its course changed

 

[meng]

:bows:

 

[maremaria]

wow !!!!


Just "stole" that . It takes my breath away.

:bows:

 

[heylise]

Love these images!

I came across this one many years ago. Forgot if it is Mayan or Aztec, I think Mayan. It hit target in me, somehow. Still hangs next to my bed. It gave me an inner solid feeling.
In the center the fire and thunder god.

It does look like the astrological circle too: fixed and cardinal figures "standing" face to face, and in between the mutable signs, the ones which do not stand, but grow.

 

[meng]

 

[rodaki]

wow . . great thread Solun!
. . and amazing images all around :bows:

my favorite artists are just tooo many to write . . if I had to single out some I'd have to say Pollock and Gerhard Richter . .they have inspired great insights about myself and the ways of things -and Richter is definitely spiritual in my eyes . .

but in terms of visualizing interrelated dynamics (can I add divination to that?) nothing beats for me things like this . . (they had to drag out of the museum when I first came across them) shadows . . shadows(virtual version) . . and a little sth from the artist's mouth . .

 

[solun]

I'm just absorbing some of these postings, they are really beautiful. The dark purple reminds me of hearing some where that the blackish or dark purple color is a good earth healing visualization. Maybe because it connects ground to spirituality, and represents death and transcendence - my guess.

Hi Maremaria,
I liked Pissarro a lot as a young person, teens. Museums, and any art really does evolke a lot for me. I never seem unable to see anything in most anything. It takes over for words. Some images seem so well thought out, you wonder if they actually were thinking what they executed, or if it hapened by chance. And then each person has their own way of translating what they feel or want to say. It's truly an amazing process, the creative one, and is a form of divination, may be the purest form.

heylise, the central American art reminds me of the east Indian and buddhist or eastern drawings, paintings that depict heirarchies of divinities, divinity, radiating out form the central figure.

rodaki, I will check these links out soon!

meng, amazing work! I would love to be able to post some of my art too, but don't have the technology. ie, digital camera. Also, I wonder about copyright. I have had things stolen from me off the internet, particularly things I have written. It showed up in some very curious places! So I am quite wary, unless I had my own site.

 

[solun]

Thank you for posting these people, these are some really wonderful images !!

 

[meng]

Thanks, Solun. There's only two of what I posted that I'd consider as approaching art. Since I'm not an artist, it doesn't matter to me if someone uses it. At least it's used rather than sitting on my hard drive. That's why I boldly posted it where you had made a place. :bows:

 

[my_key]

Thanks, Solun. There's only two of what I posted that I'd consider as approaching art. Since I'm not an artist, it doesn't matter to me if someone uses it. At least it's used rather than sitting on my hard drive. That's why I boldly posted it where you had made a place. :bows:

Hi Meng
That was really enterprising ....to boldly post where no man has posted before.

And on a more serious note....you do yourself a disservice:bows:

Mike

 

[maremaria]

It's truly an amazing process, the creative one, and is a form of divination, may be the purest form.



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I like that ! Yes, I agree . Divination , meditation and many other things. Its a way to move from chaos to order, imo.

as soon as you find a digital camera, i'l like to see your art

 

[solun]

well meng, even if you don't consider yourself an artist you create it well enough. I like the fives. I did a piece called raining sevens. But being interested in numerology, I like the way this arrangement of fives - seems to spiral inward or outward, the fifth one in the center, changing, and a sixth five ,,, the shape of the center five being more of an S or center of the yin/yang shape - five being a number of 'change' - actually taking itself into a more central form, more static, leaning towards six, or maybe away from it. It's numerology art! A meditation on five! And then some.
I like the line drawing too.

 

[meng]

I like the line drawing too.

That's one of the two . The other being the blue moon on silk.

The others were fun too, but not art. The first one, turquoise, medicine men, cattle skulls western motif - those were not original images, nor was it intended to reflect American Indian culture. It just happened that way. Geographically, this house sits on what once was a huge ranch, and before that, these foothills hosted tribes, and many Indian/cavalry battles were fought here. The influence is strong, and I can't discount it when these kinds of things show up.

couple other bits..

 

[solun]

The influence is strong, and I can't discount it when these kinds of things show up.

-meng


well, that sounds like divination of art! or whatever you call it! imagery ...?

 

[meng]

I'd forgotten these. I made one for each of four individuals within a group, to balance their personal energy.

 

[neegula]

Hi Meng
That was really enterprising ....to boldly post where no man has posted before.

hey, captain, wellcome back on board..

 

[neegula]

thank you to everyone for having shared all these wonderful images:bows:

 

[russell]

Mandala

russellcottrell.com/MandalaExplorer

Try it yourself. It’s a free download. It’s also my one “real” Delphi program, so I’m not much of an expert; if it messes up, I may not be much help. :bag:

 

[russell]

64-sided mandala

 

[meng]

 

[meng]

 

[oponopono]

Great thread...!
Raw inspiration to start the year with

Nice images, Meng!

Personally I share Lise's fascination for all the antique mayan aztec and even ancient cave painting imagery... some of the caves animals and early sculptures of woman are just exquisite, and they are said to have been made by the shamans, who were also carrying the divining powers of the community...

From the people that are still living I personally admire Paul LaFolley's work a lot, and I know people always mention Alex Grey - but I have to stay I admire his texts and his person more than the outcome of the work.

As anyone seen Jodorowsky's Magic Mountain? Wicked...!



ehehehe this is my favorite topic ever, thank you for the thread Solun...! :bows:

Yoana

 

[jilt]

nice images, thank you thank you, they speak.

about the original question from divination in art: A lady who made her job from tarot and reading hands did not understand my work (images). Then I said that she should read it as if reading hands. Then she uderstood. You can also read patterns in tealeaves, or coffee, or set a time-spaceframe and say: whatever happens in that time-spaceframe is to be interpreted as an oracle. Any painting or imagery can be used or made like that. When I am painting I am well aware of those possibilities, but prefer to leave the oracular possibilities to other observers.