Ernst Fuchs ‘Spring Awakening’
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As the founder of the ‘Vienna School of Fantastic Realism’, Ernst Fuchs is one of the most important Austrian artists of the 20th century. The exhibition “Spring Awakening” will open on March 10, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. in the 4614 Gallery of the City of Marchtrenk
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Daniel Mirante
One effect of this is that a heirarchy of truth production is established within society, with the empirical sciences, with their replicable and practical utilitarian functions being highly valued, alongside their ontological models.
This leaves humanities, and especially the arts, somewhere in the wilderness.
Added on November 5, 2021
Introducing René Guénon & The Traditionalist School
Daniel Mirante
Frithjof Schuon observed that “the work of Guénon is ‘traditional’ because the fundamental facts that it conveys are strictly in conformity with the teaching of the great traditions”. For Guénon, since the time of the Greeks, a variety of confusions led Western civilization to a complete disconnection of humanity with its own origins, that is to say, their tradition.
Added on August 25, 2021
Frithjof Schuon of the Traditionalist School
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Art refers essentially to the mystery of the veil: it is a veil made of the world and ourselves and it is thus placed between us and God, but it is transparent in the measure in which it is perfect and communicates to us what at the same time it dissimulates. Art is true, that […]
Added on August 24, 2021
4 Living Italian Painters straddling Contemporary and Tradition
Daniel Mirante
4 painters whom skillfully weave prevailing contemporary zeitgeist together with traditional symbolism.
Added on July 28, 2021
Sacred Public Art
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The important role of architecture and creative productions in transforming and shaping the consciousness of a society.
Added on July 21, 2021
Gnostic scholar Elaine Pagels new book ‘What is Satan’
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A very interesting article on the life and career of the scholar of Gnosis, Elaine Pagels.
Added on July 19, 2021
The Spirit Is The Master, Imagination Is The Tool
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Through the imagination the artist can bring into being creative representations which distill inherently valuable archetypal truth. It can also also act as a way of “seeing” below the surface of physical world.
Added on July 12, 2021
A comparative study of Tolkien and Wagner
Daniel Mirante
Originally published in the accredited fantasy journal Mythlore (which specialises in work on Tolkien, the following paper acts as a comparative analysis of both Wagner and Tolkien’s “Ring Cycles”.
Added on July 6, 2021
Counterfeit Visionary
Tristanna Emani
Whether the world will go with a bang or with a whimper is a big question of modernity. T.S. Eliot’s famous sentence on “broken jaw of our lost kingdoms” and the world as “a valley of dying stars” is pretty close poetic image to what Guenon calls deviation. The existence of Tradition implies that civilization […]
Added on July 4, 2021