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What is Esoteric Art?
Lucy Jones (UK) asked, "I'm
curious to know more about esoteric art. How is it different from
abstract or pop art? Is there any inner meaning or are they just
colourful pictures? Some of your pictures I really like. Can you tell
me how you developed this style?"
"When
I was a young man I used to paint what people wanted. Mostly
landscapes, still life and portraits.
I did paint a small collection of abstract/pop art and
a collection
of female nudes.
Later,
after an arduous spiritual journey, the
'turning point' occurred and it changed
everything including my style of art. There was no longer any interest
in copying what was out there, like landscapes, people or still life.
The challenge now was to create impressions from the new subjective
horizons that the transformation had revealed. There was no actual
development of this style, it is simply the way I express these
internal impressions. For want of a name I call this style 'esoteric
art'.
Perhaps
a little background on how the abstract art style developed
may
help. The great English painter JMW Turner, whose later work became
more and more
abstract, was an influence on Claude Monet who was a core member of
the impressionist movement. From that movement Paul Cćzanne,
experimenting
with spacial volume and colour as structure, set a basic foundation for
Cubism which Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque developed. Another
influence was
Georges Seurat's system of Pointillism, that is making pictures from
tiny
coloured dots. Many artists of this time experimented with these
techniques like Piet Mondrian, who
then went on to revolutionise abstract
art.
I
believe Mondrian said that, as man becomes more intelligent he
will express himself more and more abstractly. He developed the idea of
plasticity and wrote a book, 'Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art' (1937),
in which he defines his theories on neo-Plasticism.
The
American artist Jackson Pollock added a new dimension to abstract
impressionism with his remarkable 'drip paintings'. I believe Pollock
said that, an artist need no longer look outside of himself for
inspiration, inspiration can now come directly from within the artist's
mind. Pollock's gift was to convey subtle feelings through his
paintings.
Hans
Hofmann, a German painter who lived and taught in America most of his
adult life, bought a dynamic impact to abstract art. He was a friend of
Picasso and Matisse, and in his art Hofmann created a unique form of
synthetic Cubism. In many ways his art surpassed his contemporaries and
the founders of modern art. His technique of 'push and pull' is now a
standard in the art world.
Today
one of the greatest living artists is Howard Hodgkin. He has the gift
of conveying feeling in his unique form of art. He would,
understandably, object to being called an abstract expressionist. Yet
his development of the style will go down in history.
There
are hundreds of artists who could have been mentioned for their
contribution to New Age art, but this is just a brief background to
convey something of the great artistic momentum that is still
continuing. Esoteric art is a very small part of
the continuation of this artistic
momentum.
I do hope that
this, in some way, has answered your questions."
dbm.
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Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
A. E. Housman (1859-1936) |
Submitted by JR
Quotation
They talk most who have the least to say.
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) |
Poem
The conditions of a solitary bird are five:
The first, that it flies to the highest point;
The second, that it does not suffer for company,
not even of its own kind;
The third, that it aims its beak to the skies;
The fourth, that it does not have a definite color;
The fifth, that it sings very softly.
San Juan de la Cruz (1542 –1591)
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Submitted by Ron Meadley
Quotation
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus (540-475 B.C.) |
Poem
On the ocean of aloneness ships that pass,
Even fleetingly can be a great delight. Sometimes we may meet briefly,
Sometimes we journey for a while.
Then we part on the ocean of aloneness,
And the night seems very dark.
dbm (2010) |
Quotation
Who are we? Why are we here?
We are the music of the spheres,
Manifest to know love and tears.
dbm (2010) |
Poem
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What is this life if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep, or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this, if full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
William Henry Davies (1871-1940) |
Quotation
When the power of love
overcomes the love of power
the world will know peace.
Sri Chinmoy Ghose (1931-2007) |
Poem
The
kiss of the sun for pardon
The song of the birds for mirth
One is nearer to God's heart in the garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
Dorothy Gurney (1858-1932)
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Dedicated
to DRF Murrer.
An advanced Questing Soul.
Quotation
We can be
knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but
we cannot be wise with
another men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
Poem
Others may forget you, but not I.
I am haunted by your beautiful ghost.
Empress
Yamatohime |
Submitted by Peter Santus
Quotation
Take away
love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
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