This movement, generally speaking, it began to Russian in the early 20 th century. Tchelitchew, Kalmakov, Roerich experimenting with meditative and contemplative practices and that they are so influenced by the West with its subsequent New Age, psychedelics, etc. ... This is recognized in an interview with Alex Gray - one of the leading artists of this trend in the United States.
"The Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew was one of the great visionary artists of the twentieth century (his obsession with anatomy and mysticism relates to my own work). Tchelitchew's paintings evolved through metamorphic symbolism to x-ray anatomical figures glowing with inner light, and eventually progressed to luminous, abstract networks. "
http://beinart.org/info/essays/alex-...ionary-art.php
And the whole Russian line of mystical art can conduct their count from artists Hesychasts: Theophanes the Greek, Andrey Rublev, Dionysius (
http://www.hesychasm.ru/library/creation/yazik.htm). They are contemplating the exalted realms, the light of Tabor, were his agents and spokesmen in the iconographic compositions. As in Russia there was the Renaissance, and in the figurative terms of Russian painters for many centuries had to deal primarily with the canonical icon, then continue the line of succession manifests itself in the art 19-20-21 Century Vrubel, Chelishchev, Kalmakova, Roerich Museum, more - Eugenia Spassky, Valery Kharitonov, Fr. Vladislav Provotorova, o.Stefana Linitskogo, o.Mihaila Potapova, "artists from Little Georgia, Oleg Korolev, Victor Safonkin, et al.
So that contemplative mystical art, Visionary art is "our everything" and in addition it is the Russian development.