“What is Visionary Art?” – this is the territory of exploration that we are embarking upon – a library, research project, and developing network exploring the history, techniques and theory, regenerative culture, map making, consensus building, and fathoming the archetypes. We are gathering and building an evolving body of knowledge and mentorship around visionary art that is accessible anywhere in the world.
Foundations of Visionary Art Course May 2023
Develop your skills and knowledge in art with an introductory course in Mixed technique painting (Mischtechnik/Mixtek).
Designed over the past decade in a variety of cross-cultural contexts, this mentorship aims to give understanding of the foundation of archetypal and symbolic oil painting.
Proceeding from the Tempera Grassa of the 14th century Italian renaissance and through the modern forms of mischtechnik.
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Latest in Era of Visions Library
The Subcreation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien
Daniel Mirante
February 1, 2023
A discussion delving deep into J.R.R Tolkiens’ personal philosophy of the creative process- ‘subcreation’ and how it was informed by his spirituality.
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
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.
Kuba Ambrose – An Interview (2022)
Daniel Mirante
October 20, 2022
The paintings of Kuba Ambrose explore the timeless and ongoing relationship between humankind and the Creator. We are very grateful to Kuba Ambrose for taking time from his paintings to participate in an interview about his thoughts on art, history and prayer.
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.
The Racial Archetypes of Eurasia in the Oera Linda Chronicle
admin
July 29, 2021
The Oera Linda purports to relate events between 2194 BCE to 803 CE, and tells of the ‘Free Folk’ and the events leading to how freedom in the current epoch was lost. Whether a work of intentional myth-making or an unveiling of the deep history of Europe, the Oera Linda is a work that has resonant visionary power, as this exegesis by Alexandr Dugin elucidates.
The Kafno Ikon – An Exploration
Tanya Maria Semaan
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)
admin
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
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
admin
October 12, 2021
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Hymn to Proserpine
admin
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.