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Fruit of the contemplative life: => Art of the Mystic => : Jhanon September 14, 2014, 10:46:00 PM

: Mystic Artists
: Jhanon September 14, 2014, 10:46:00 PM

We've all found an artist who has convinced us they are a mystic, in some capacity. I came across Caspar David Friedrich during my school today.

"The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand..."

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Caspar_David_Friedrich_019.jpg/220px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_019.jpg)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich

Let this be a place for anyone who wants to share other mystic artists.

: Re: Mystic Artists
: Michel September 14, 2014, 11:47:27 PM

Interesting paintings. I like his work.

: Re: Mystic Artists
: Michel September 14, 2014, 11:57:10 PM

Check out William Blake. Definitely a mystic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake

http://www.gailgastfield.com/blake3.html

http://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake

: Re: Mystic Artists
: Jhanananda September 15, 2014, 03:07:38 AM

Thank-you, Michel, William Blake was a big inspiration for me as a mystic and an artist.  Kandinsky was also a big inspiration for me as an artist and an anthropologist. I believe his earliest book was an ethnography of shamanism among the Fenugreek.  I cannot seem to find it on Google now, but it refers to the "World Watchers" among the Fenugreek, who were essentially shaman with the OOBE mastered.  I wrote at least one paper on it when I was a fine art/Anthro major.  Perhaps I will one day find that paper.