Painting the hexagrams

[maudie]

Hexagram 52: Gen
Keeping his back still so that he no longer feels his body.
He goes into his courtyard and does not see his people.
No blame.
Mountains standing close together: the image of Keeping Still.
Thus the superior man does not permit his thoughts to go beyond his situation.
(WIlhelm/Baynes)

Yesterday was a seriously 52 day for me, so I was compelled to do this drawing.
I hope to do this for all of them, as they come, and post them here if it's cool with y'all :bows:

 

[svenrus]

Inspiring - and beautiful

 

[rosada]

Please do!

 

[rosada]

You might also consider posting famous paintings that you feel represent the hexagram. Like for
2. post The Mona Lisa.

 

[butterfly spider]

what a good idea? For those of us who like to visualise the hexagrams this would be very useful.
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[Trojina]

Not sure everyone will be able to see this but go to 22:28 minutes to see hexagram 64...oh it seems to be at that point anyway...well it's at 22.28 and says 'coast'


[video]http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b079ckkf/forest-field-sky-art-out-of-nature[/video]

not 100% sure it's okay for me to post that but there doesn't seem any reason not to. If you know better let me know

not paintings but art made from the landscape

 

[svenrus]

(It has been suggested that hex. 52 got a reference to meditation)​

 

[butterfly spider]

I have a very strange affinity to hexagram 56. The hexagram evokes am elusive mystery of places where I feel familiar, feel as if I belong but end up finding myself needing to move on - not necessarily because of anything specific, just that needing to find the right place. The place that I thought I knew, but turned out to be rather strange.....

I saw a painting about 18 months ago - it was a copy (I have no idea where the original is).
It is PATH WITH ELDER AND HAZEL BY SIR LAWRENCE GOWING an oil on canvas painted in 1959. It felt like I was in the painting - very 56 travelling. It is of a forest path that doesnt go anywhere - sending the traveller deeper and deeper into the unknown...There appears to be a light drawing me towards it, the painting is not sinister, just rather odd. The forbidden woods with their large trunks is scarey, this painting is different.. It also reminds me of the Path Through the Woods byRudyard Kipling...one of my favourite poems.

added information - the painting is in the Tate, it was last exhibited in 1962 and is held by the Contemporary Art Society there. There are copies however, and which is what I saw at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
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[Liselle]

Maudie, that really captures a mood...I hope you keep posting these as inspiration strikes...