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Latest in Era of Visions Library

An Introduction to Ernst Fuchs

Daniel Mirante

Ernst Fuchs

Art History & Theory

September 9, 2023

Ernst Fuchs was an extraordinarily talented and multifaceted Austrian artist born on February 13, 1930. He was a master of several mediums including painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, and he also ventured into architecture, stage designing, poetry, and singing. Fuchs was a pivotal figure in the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, a movement he co-founded. His legacy places him as one of the pivotal founders of contemporary visionary art and one of the great preservers and reinvigorators of the timeless legacy of sacred art.

Goddess of the Jewelled Web – Visionary Arts’ Connection to Truth

Daniel Mirante

Complexity, Chaos & Emergent Order

September 6, 2021

Art striving for an existential veracity or ‘truth’ will be put upon a difficult and confusing road, forking and branching pathways; between on one hand positivist and nominalist systems tending toward rationality (as in ‘ratio’, to measure), and on the other extreme something akin to pure aesthetics, decor, and the enjoyment of a sensoric object. What we wish to seek here is a deeper meaning for the Arts which put Sacred Art upon a respectable and integral foundation.

An Interview with Pablo Amaringo

Howard Charing

Ecology & Art

October 24, 2020

The late Pablo Amaringo trained as a curandero in the Amazon, healing himself and others from the age of ten, but gave this up in 1977 to become a full-time painter and art teacher at his Usko-Ayar school. Pablo left us this November 2009, and this interview is posted in homage to this great Artist and great Man.

Elisabeth Landgraf Interview – Trancing the Sacred

Daniel Mirante

Interviews & Featured Artists

September 18, 2023

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Yearning, Sorrow & Desire – The Capriccio of Monsu Desiderio and Descendents

Daniel Mirante

Introductions to Visionary & Sacred Art

July 20, 2021

Ruins hold an enigma for artists concerned with the psycho-archeology of culture. Capricci is a yearning for the archaic, it is also a kind of solace for the broken-hearted who feel they are born to times where the ruins are not physical, but symbolic.

Hesiod, Theogony, Part 1 – Hymn to the Muses

Daniel Mirante

Parnassus by Andrea Mantegna

Myth & Symbol

August 14, 2023

A reading of ‘Hymn to the Muses’ from Hesiods Theogony. Read by Daniel Mirante and accompanied by high-res closeups of ‘Parnassus’, by Andrea Mantegna, oil and egg tempera painting.

The Kafno Ikon – An Exploration

Tanya Maria Semaan

Kafno Ikon by Tanya Semaan

Religious Tradition

June 7, 2022

Biblical and Historical Explanation for the First Original Monumental KAFNO Icon painted by Tanya Maria Semaan who generously provided this exegesis of the Ikon.

Thomas Cole’s The Course Of Empire (in his own words)

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Traditionalist School

July 18, 2021

Thomas Cole’s importance and influence as an American artist exploded during the mid‐​1830s and his career flourished in the early 1840s. He deeply influenced his immediate peers and successive generations of American artists. He transformed the landscape genre from a reflective art to a medium of expressing historical, social, and political theory.

Brief History of Transpersonal Psychology

Stan Grof

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Transpersonal Psychology

March 26, 2023

The renaissance of interest in Eastern spiritual philosophies, various mystical traditions, meditation, ancient and aboriginal wisdom, as well as the widespread psychedelic experimentation during the stormy 1960s, made it absolutely clear that a comprehensive and cross- culturally valid psychology had to include observations from such areas as mystical states, cosmic consciousness, psychedelic experiences, trance phenomena, creativity, and religious, artistic, and scientific inspiration.

21st Century Visionaries : Oleg Korolev

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Uncategorized

October 12, 2021

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Hymn to Proserpine

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Visionary Prose & Literature

June 2, 2023

“Hymn to Proserpine” is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in Poems and Ballads in 1866. The poem is addressed to the goddess Proserpina, the Roman equivalent of Persephone, but laments the rise of Christianity for displacing the pagan goddess and the pantheon.