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Dear reader, welcome to the Era of Visions library, a global resource relating to traditional sacred art as well as contemporary visionary and sacred art.
The lineages, and developments of this art is of great interest, and inter-relates on many profound levels of sacred tradition, world history, consciousness, science & technology, evolution and culture. Hence this Library.
Where possible we endevour to cite and reference our sources, in order that this Library may be considered a source of scholarly veracity. We especially hope this library will help artists, researchers, authors and students understand the historical, traditional, psychological and spiritual contexts to the world of visionary art.
– Daniel Mirante, Byron Bay, Australia January 2021
Top 3 Articles Recommended for Orientation
An Introduction to Ernst Fuchs
Daniel Mirante
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.
Yearning, Sorrow & Desire – The Capriccio of Monsu Desiderio and Descendents
Daniel Mirante
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.
Remaking Cultural Sense – The Symbolist World of Peladan
Sasha Chaitow
Symbolism is a forerunner of contemporary visionary art. It prefigures the transformation from classical and traditional premodern forms into a more dynamic, idiosyncratic personal vision. It is with great pleasure that Era Of Visions can share this original interview with Sasha Chaitow, who generously shared her expertise. Sasha is a contemporary scholar of the Symbolist Movement, who has focussed her research on the enigmatic, influential figure known as Peladan.
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Added on September 9, 2023
An Introduction to Ernst Fuchs
Daniel Mirante
Included in Categories : Art History & Theory, Interviews & Featured Artists, Introductions to Visionary & Sacred Art
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.
Added on September 6, 2021
Goddess of the Jewelled Web – Visionary Arts’ Connection to Truth
Daniel Mirante
Included in Categories : Art History & Theory, Complexity, Chaos & Emergent Order, Myth & Symbol
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.
Added on October 24, 2020
An Interview with Pablo Amaringo
Howard Charing
Included in Categories : Ecology & Art, Interviews & Featured Artists
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.
Added on September 18, 2023
Elisabeth Landgraf Interview – Trancing the Sacred
Daniel Mirante
Included in Categories : Interviews & Featured Artists
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Added on July 20, 2021
Yearning, Sorrow & Desire – The Capriccio of Monsu Desiderio and Descendents
Daniel Mirante
Included in Categories : Art History & Theory, Introductions to Visionary & Sacred Art
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.
Added on August 14, 2023
Hesiod, Theogony, Part 1 – Hymn to the Muses
Daniel Mirante
Included in Categories : Myth & Symbol, Visionary Prose & Literature
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.
Added on June 7, 2022
The Kafno Ikon – An Exploration
Tanya Maria Semaan
Included in Categories : Interviews & Featured Artists, Religious Tradition
Biblical and Historical Explanation for the First Original Monumental KAFNO Icon painted by Tanya Maria Semaan who generously provided this exegesis of the Ikon.
Added on July 18, 2021
Thomas Cole’s The Course Of Empire (in his own words)
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Included in Categories : Art History & Theory, Traditionalist School
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.
Added on March 26, 2023
Brief History of Transpersonal Psychology
Stan Grof
Included in Categories : Transpersonal Psychology
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.
Added on October 12, 2021
21st Century Visionaries : Oleg Korolev
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Included in Categories : Uncategorized
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Added on June 2, 2023
Hymn to Proserpine
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Included in Categories : Visionary Prose & Literature
“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.