Esoterica in painting

[Konstantin]

Icon of the Mother of God, which in her life, wrote the Apostle Luke


"Sacred and Imperial Monastery of the Virgin Stavropigiyska Kykkos. Tsarskoe it is because,

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that was founded through the personal involvement of the Byzantine emperor Alexis Comnenus (1081-1118). Stavropigiyska - because at the cornerstone of the structure was laid cross ( "Stavros"). The origin of the toponym Kykkos unknown.

A history of the monastery is really beautiful. According to legend, here in a cave lived a virtuous hermit named Isaiah. Once the Byzantine ruler Manuel Vutomitis island, resting in the hot summer in the local village, went hunting in the forest and got lost. Dodger in the woods, he met Isaiah, and asked him to show the road. Monk, in-depth in their thinking and avoided all worldly things, nothing. The governor not only swore, but hit Isaiah.

After a short time, and Vutomitis, returning to Nicosia, became ill with an incurable disease. Writhing in pain, he remembered how he behaved rudely with a hermit. Wanting to go to the monk to personally apologize to him, the governor asked God to heal him, that once happened. However, God appeared and before the hermit, telling him that everything happened for him, God, freedom, and persuaded Isaiah require Vutomitisa bring to Cyprus icon of the Mother of God, which in her life, wrote the Apostle Luke, and which was kept in the imperial palace in Constantinople. Vutomitis shuddered with fear when he heard the request of Isaiah, since it seemed impossible governor. Then the monk had persuaded him that it was the will of God, after which they agreed to go to Constantinople together. There they found the Byzantine emperor Alexis Comnenus in great sorrow, because his only daughter was seriously ill, with the same disease that struck earlier Vutomitisa. Then they were brought before the emperor. Isaiah prayed, and the daughter of the emperor recovered. Then they explained Alexis Comnenus, that God's will requires to carry a sacred icon in the Troodos mountains. The Emperor was not easy to part with the icon. Only when he himself was struck by the same disease, which hurt Vutomitis and his daughter, he realized that he could not resist the will of God. Yet he decided to cheat - asked to write a copy of the icon painter and exhibited at the appointed hour before the Cypriot visitors two icons, similar to each other to such an extent that it was impossible to determine where the original, and where a copy. Saved by a bee - she pointed out original. And now this tireless hard worker especially venerated in the monastery. Figure bees laid mosaics on the floor of the monastery and made a coat Kikkskogo Abbot.

Together with the icon of the Emperor has allocated the funds needed to build a temple in which it should have been placed. Isaiah with great joy brought the icon to Cyprus, where the people gave him a rapturous reception and went along with the icon all the way from the coast to Troodos. In front of them tended trees, the legend. Indeed, on the slopes of the Troodos we have seen a lot of bent pines.

At the same time, arrived on the island and Vutomitis. He gave Isaiah imperial edict with a gold seal, which proclaimed the monastery Stavropigiyska and sign over on its maintenance revenue from several villages. And now more than nine centuries, an icon is stored here in Kikkskom monastery. It is called the queen of all the icons, not only because the apostle Luke wrote it during the life of the Virgin, but also because this was God's will - to put an icon in Cyprus.

[Сергеич]

Interesting.

the Image of Christ on the icon
Most early references to the Holy image of Christ on the icon, the icon George, who was in Asia Minor city of Edessa, dates back to IV century. In the VIII century. John of Damascus outlined the history of his

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origin. This legend for many centuries has acquired new details and there are various options that are similar in the main. It states that suffered from a terrible disease - leprosy - the ruler of Edessa named Abgar, having heard of Christ and had no opportunity to go myself to him, in order to be healed, he sent his servant and painter Hananiah, with a letter to Christ, inviting him to in Edessa, and commanded Ananias paint a portrait of Jesus, if he can not respond to the invitation. Artist, finding Christ, he could not write his portrait on the icon, the icon of matrons, no matter how hard they tried. The reason for the failure lay in the fact that he portrayed Jesus as an ordinary mortal man, and before him was a God-man. Then Jesus washed his face with water and wiped it with a piece of cloth so - the plateau on which Ananias tried to capture him. On this board (in other words - the towel) miraculously manifested the face of Christ, which affected both human and divine nature of the Savior. Along with a return letter from Christ to Abgar Ananias delivered a wonderful board to Edessa, where he was placed on the city's main gate (note that here in the tradition went further premises icons Vernicle on the gate at the entrance to the city, including in Russia) , the ruler of the city also received healing. Some time later, when the walls of Edessa rushed heathen hordes, the image was built with brick, so he was not subjected to desecration. Then laid on the way forgotten and remembered many years later, when Edessa was attacked by the Persians. In the dream, the priest was Eulalia Virgin, who commanded to open the image. Upon removal of the bricks found that they also etched the face of Christ. This image, called "The Savior chrepii" or "to ceramide, and then also widely venerated in Edessa and around the Byzantine world. Opened the image on the icon to intimidate the enemy, who retreated from the city.

[Сергеич]

Caught terrible picture, the artist Bill Stoneham and the same story to her.

The picture painted Bill Stoneham. The scandal began after one of the exhibitions. Mentally neurovnoveshannym people viewing this picture became bad, they lost consciousness, began to cry and so on ...

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It all began in 1972 when the picture was painted by Bill Stonhanom for old photographs, where he was photographed at the age of five and was found in the Chicago home where he lived at the time (first picture).
For the first time the picture was shown to the owner and art Los Angeles Times, which then died. Could be it was coincidence, maybe not. Then the painting was purchased by actor John Marley (died in 1984). Then the fun begins. The picture was found in a landfill amid a pile of garbage. The family who found her and had already brought home the first night of a small four-year daughter came running into his parents' bedroom, shouting that the children in the picture fighting. The next night, the children in the picture were at the door. The following night the head of the family put the camcorder on the inclusion of movement in the room where hung the painting. The camcorder has worked several times.

The painting was exhibited at Internet auction eBay. Soon the postal addresses of administrators eBay began to arrive alarming letters of complaint to the deterioration-being, loss of consciousness and even heart attacks. On eBay (as in this post) stood alert, but people are curious as it is known, and many neglected the warning. Your message is shown in one image.

The painting was sold for 1,025 USD, the starting price was 199 USD.
Page with the picture visited over 30,000 times, but mostly just for fun. She bought Kim Smith, who lived in a small town near Chicago. He was just trying to find something for their just-renovated art gallery on the expanses Ineta. When he stumbled on "Hands Resist Him" then first thought was that it painted in the forties and it fits perfectly for him as an exhibit.
That would be the end of history, but the letters began to come now to address Smith. Many of them were as before with tales of bad state of health after seeing the pictures, but there were those who wrote about the evil emanating from it.
Others simply burn it. He even offered the services of Ed and Lorraine Warren, known as cast out demons in Amitvilskom house in 1979. Some even vpominali known murder Satillo in forested hills of the state Kaliformiya. The ghosts of two children, is said to have frequented a house in the hills. Ýêñòðàñåíñû asserted: "We have seen the boy. He wore a light shirt and shorts. His sister was always in the shadows. He seemed to defend it. Their names were Tom and Laura, and they were like two drops like a child depicted in the picture.

What is not in this picture? Maybe the whole point of distorting the proportions and shapes, light, but compulsive. Peer makes it. Look at the boy's head: his crown flat, flat and besforemennoe, as if covered with a piece of raw dough, face. Look at the door. You do not have the feeling that the growth of the boy above the adult, and the door - is enormous? Hands behind an invisible barrier seemed very small. Legs of a boy in them, too, that something was wrong.
There terribly wrong. She scares.

I found a site with him. Interestingly, in places like Bacon.
http://www.stonehamstudios.com/fineart.html

[Сергеич]

On a continuation, a skilled PR?

For the first time the picture was shown to the owner and art Los Angeles Times, which then died. Could be it was coincidence, maybe not.

Then the painting was purchased by actor John Marley (died in 1984).

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Then the fun begins. The picture was found in a landfill amid a pile of garbage. The family who found her and had already brought home the first night of a small four-year daughter came running into his parents' bedroom, shouting that the children in the picture fighting.

The next night, the children in the picture were at the door. The following night the head of the family put the camcorder on the inclusion of movement in the room where hung the painting. The camcorder has worked several times.

Photos with which to make prints.

[Anton]

It is like parsing paintings - each character or object is a symbol. Interestingly artist knew the truth and put a meaning in them?

Consider the picture of the "Agony in the Garden". The plot of this film is fairly traditional, but decided he was quite unusual, especially in comparison with the artists of the Middle Ages. Christ is placed in the background, and even back to the audience. At the first plan - the sleeping disciples Peter, John and James. They have a lot of human weaknesses and they are depicted without haloes - symbols of holiness. Thus, Mantegna showed that for him the most important - is the spiritual improvement of the students.

 

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Andrea Mantegna
Agony in the Garden
London, National Gallery
In the picture a lot of characters. Thus, the rock on which Christ prayed, meaning firmness in the faith, a dream - a symbol of spiritual death. In the background - the angels, one holding a cross, showing that it was going to die on the cross Christ. Dry tree with vultures portends death, but the branch with zazelenevshim escape points to the imminent resurrection; humble rabbit sitting on the road that will be a detachment of Roman soldiers to take Jesus into custody - they say the mildness of rights in the face of imminent death. Three stumps, left over from just felled and already Gone with the trees, reminiscent of impending crucifixion. In the foreground of the barren rocks punched shoots of grass, for students - a young tree - a symbol of new life. The figures are drawn in the usual manner for an artist and seem carved from stone, in their robes, sharply delineated every fold. Serves as a background image of the garden with dark foliage. The tone, the green contrasts with the pale green light air, which causes a feeling of deep sadness and a certain doom.

[LCR]

Сообщение от Anton

It is like parsing paintings - each character or object is a symbol. Interestingly artist knew the truth and put a meaning in them?

Yes, of course, knew. Christian symbolism and iconography of the artists have studied together with the purely craft side of their profession.

Generally, when we look at the work of art created by 17 in. inclusive, the symbolism of the image often eludes us, at the time, the average viewer at the time "read" the symbolic content of her easily ...

[Сергеич]

Then it's let porassmatrivaem Bosch.



Hieronymus Bosch "Garden of earthly pleasures"

«Hieronymus Bosch" - a pseudonym, which the artist signed his work, and his real name Yeroen Antoniszaen van Aken. Bosch Fame in the lifetime of the artist overstepped the limits of his native Bois-le-Duc - a small Belgian town.
Customers of the artist were not only residents Gertsogenbosha (another city) and the urban graduate, but notable Spanish grandee.

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The works of Hieronymus Bosch loved and collected the Spanish King Philip II, one of the earliest paintings of the artist - "Seven Deadly Sins" - hung in the bedroom of King and the repetition of "the cart of hay" - over the desk. Demand for the product of the Netherlands painter was so great that his workshop produced numerous copies of his works. To see the works of renowned masters, in come Gertsogenbosh artists and art lovers from different countries. In 1508, he was visited by Lucas Cranach and copied Bosch's triptych "The Last Court.

Subsequently, however, as often happens, Bosch forgotten, and only in the second half of the XIX century, his paintings were removed from the store galleries. But for art historians I. Bosch was a very difficult artist, and even now there is no established view on the interpretation of stories and individual images of his paintings.

For the medieval artists (as well as for their audience) all objects and events have symbolic meaning, each subject received his symbolic interpretation based on the texts of the Bible. For example, based on the phrase: "The Word of God much as a lion" - the lion was considered the symbol of omnipotence of the Christian faith, because the figures of lions adorn the portals of many Romanesque churches in France and in Italy sculptors XIII-XIV centuries put the lions at the foot of the pulpit . Creativity Bosch, perhaps even more difficult because in our time for the direct perception that an artist beyond the traditional medieval characters (well-known), and other symbols used - less well-known and difficult indecipherable.

Artistic language Bosch never fit entirely in the medieval symbolic interpretation. The artist often used certain characters in the sense opposite conventional wisdom, as well as invent new characters. Perhaps because it and called the "dismal science fiction", "an honorary professor of nightmares", but modern surrealists saw Bossche his spiritual father and the forerunner.

For example, one of those scenes. Love couple secluded themselves in a transparent bubble. Slightly above the young man embraces a huge owl, the right of the bubble in the middle of the pool, in water, another man standing on his head, his legs wide apart, between which the birds nest svili. Not far away a young man, leaning with his lover of pink hollow apple, feeds a monstrous bunch of grapes of people standing up to their necks in water. This "Garden of earthly pleasures" - one of the most famous paintings of Hieronymus Bosch.


His triptych "Garden of earthly pleasures," or "Garden of Delights" (often called the most "boshovskim" product), Hieronymus Bosch set up in 1503, and in it his peculiar vision of the world revealed in full. Name of the picture given in the modern literature, but in the second half of the XVI century, when she came into the ownership of King Philip II, it was called "The diversity of the world, in the XVII century it was known as" vanity and glory. "

On the left side of the triptych depicts paradise, on the right-Hell, and among them was placed an image of earthly existence.


 



Arrangement of the left wing continues the theme of creation of the world and is dedicated to the birth of man.
Pale closed triptych replaces riot of colors.
The left side of the "Garden of Delights depicts a scene of" Creation of Eve ", and the Raj shines and shimmers with bright, sparkling colors.
Different animals graze among the green hills, amid the fantastic scenery of Paradise, around the reservoir with a bizarre construction.
This - Fountain of life, from which are selected on a variety of land creatures
In the foreground, near the tree of knowledge, the master shows the awakening of Adam. Just woken up, Adam rises from the ground and in amazement, looking at Eve, which he reveals God. Well-known art critic Charles de Tolnay pointed out that the look of surprise, which Adam throws the first woman - this is a step on the path to sin. And Eve, extracted from Adam's rib - is not just a woman, but also a tool of seduction. As usual with Bosch, no idyll does not exist without an omen of evil, and we see a pit with dark water, a cat with a mouse in his teeth (cat - the cruelty, the devil)

The contradiction between the calm and sinless man and bearing the seeds of sin and the woman playing in their natural environment. Raised on a mysterious orange rock stunted palm diagonally opposite palm tree blossoming Several incidents cast a dark shadow on the peaceful life of animals: a lion devouring a deer, wild boar pursues a mysterious beast. And above it all rises the source of life - a hybrid plants and marble cliffs, soaring Gothic structure, mounted on dark-blue stones of a small island. At the top of it - yet barely visible crescent, but inside it looks like a worm, sova - Journal of misfortune.


 



The central part of the triptych - the actual "Garden of earthly pleasures" - is a fantastic panorama of the "Garden of Love", inhabited by many nude figures of men and women, never before seen animals, birds and plants. Love shamelessly indulge in delights amorous water bodies in incredible crystal structures, hiding under the skin of fruit or a huge shuck.
Since human figures mixed unnatural proportions of animals, birds, fish, butterflies, algae, huge flowers and fruits.

Great for painting a vivid picture of the recalled carpet, woven from bright and delicate colors. But this beautiful vision is deceptive, because he hides the sins and vices, provided by the artist in the form of numerous characters, borrowed from the folk beliefs, mystical literature and alchemy.

In the song "Garden of earthly pleasures" are three plan:
in the foreground shows the "different joy. There is a pond of luxury and a fountain, flowers and castles of the absurd vanity.
Btoroy plan busy motley cavalcade of numerous naked riders who go on deer, griffins, panthers and wild boars - no more than a cycle of emotions that pass through the labyrinth of pleasures.
The third (farthest) - crowned with a blue sky, where people fly on winged fish, and with your own wings.

All of these characters and scenes that take place among the intricate combinations of plants, rocks, fruit, glass spheres and crystals are combined with each other rather than the internal logic of the narrative as symbolic links, meaning that each new generation understood in different ways.

It would seem that on the background of the landscape, nothing can be chaste love games human couples. But, like psychoanalysis (psychiatrist R. Chaikin even offered to psychopathological analysis of creativity I. Bosch), dream of the time reveal the true meaning of these earthly delights:
cherries, strawberries, strawberries and grapes, with a joyfully eaten people, symbolize sinful sexuality, devoid of light of divine love;
boat-apple, in which the secluded lovers, shaped like women's breasts;
birds are the embodiment of lust and depravity,
fish - a symbol of restless longing,
sink is feminine.

At the bottom of the picture the young man put his arm around a huge zemlyanichinu. The meaning of this image will become clear to us, if we recall that in Western European art zemlyanichina served as a symbol of purity and virginity.
A scene with a bunch of grapes in the pool - this communion, and a giant pelican, picked up the long beak of a cherry (the symbol of sensuality) teases her people sitting in the flower bud fantastic. Sam pelican symbolizes the love of neighbor.
A symbol of Christian art often gives the artist specific sound sense, relegating them to the material bodily Plan

Hieronymus Bosch creates a striking world of ephemeral desires and sensual pleasures: aloe digging into bare flesh, coral firmly grasps the body, shell closes and turns amorous couple in their captives.

In the tower of adultery, which rises from the lake of lust and yellow-orange walls which sparkle like a crystal, deceived husbands are sleeping among the horns. Glass sphere metallic color, which are made caresses of lovers, with a crown of the crescent and pink marble horn. Scope and glass bell, harboring three sinners, illustrate a Dutch proverb. "Happiness and glass - as they are short-lived!". And they are symbols of the heretical nature of sin and the dangers it poses to the world

The first attempt to decipher this piece Jose de Siguenza in 1605, he believed that it is given a collective image of the earthly life of man, pogryazshero in sinful pleasures and forgotten about the pristine beauty of the lost paradise, and therefore doomed to hell. The monk offered to withdraw from this picture more copies and distribute them among the faithful for enlightenment.
There is also an opinion that Bosch paints a false picture of this paradise is literally invaded by symbols of lust, drawn largely from the traditional symbolism, but partly also of alchemy - lzhedoktriny, which, as well as carnal sin, man blocks the path to salvation.
 

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It would be worth to mention Jackson Pollock, abstractionist, or the Abstract Expressionists, who had invented an unusual technique of painting: he spread out the canvas on the floor and then watered, sprinkles, bombarded him with paint, resulting in the most unexpected configuration. This method dates back to the Chinese Zen artists, adopting such techniques, as well as the magical paintings of American Indians - the traditions practiced by "spontaneity" of art. Artist rassmatrivetsya here as an intermediary between the higher and the beginning of the manifested creation, the less he brings to the art of the self, the more accurate and deeper reflects the Supreme idea.

Here are two examples of Pollock's works, written in late 30's and 40's, where the artist is not using his famous technique of spraying, but in which the basic coded gestures and signs, providing access to the world of the unseen.

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Stanislavsky

in which the basic coded gestures and signs, providing access to the world of the invisible

Abstractly encoded? It is not so interesting (or what I can not understand). I wonder when the picture intentionally hidden signs and as a result of the picture is even some sense. And it is interesting to look and enjoy. Confirmation that the success of the book "Code Davinchi.

[IrinaC]

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I find it interesting and enjoy. Confirmation that the success of the book "Code Davinchi".

Code Davinchi "is entertaining literature. Nothing to do with the actual facts.