Esoterica in painting

[Konstantin]

Here are a representative of mysticism - Paul Delvaux. In my opinion there is a kind of vampirism.

Delvaux (Delvaux) Paul, (1897-1994), Belgian surrealist painter.
Born September 23, 1897 in Anteyte (Province of Liege, Belgium). He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. In 1920-1924 Delvaux has been influenced by Giorgio de Chirico and the De Smet - Flemish expressionist with his particular conception of the naked body and the atmosphere of silence and restraint. Nude model became the subject par excellence of creativity Delvaux ( "Pink ribbon", Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts). Strictly defined plan of images, where the garden, the northern city landscapes, ancient ruins are the main motive of the picture. Naked women on canvases Delvaux like expecting the arrival of men that will take them out of lethargy. Delvaux in his paintings has always emphasized the contrast-dressed and naked characters, reinforcing an erotic component. In the religious compositions Delvaux ( "Crucifixion", 1951, Brussels, Gosudrstvennoe assembly, etc.) is interesting topic presence skeletons, superseding characters.

[Сергеич]

LEGEND OF ST VERONICA
In 1879, in St. Petersburg was an exhibition of German artists. One of them, Gabriel von Max, presented the painting "St. Veronica's handkerchief with the image nailed to the wall of a piece of coarse linen with the face of Christ in the center. Unusual pattern was that viewers could see the eyes of the Savior is closed, then open. Newspapers of the time wrote that the organizers had to put chairs in the hall, as some of the ladies fainted, exclaiming: "Look!" Look! "

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Of course, the enigmatic painting attracted the attention of metropolitan artists who tried to unravel the secret, and the artist Ivan Kramskoy wrote about her story for the magazine "New Era", which described the methods by which the German author is seeking the desired effect.

The legend of Saint Veronica spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. Later it became the official Church tradition, it has been recognized as a true, as recorded in the Gospels. When Jesus Christ were to Mount Calvary, there to crucify him, some tender-hearted woman named Veronica wiped a handkerchief from his face with sweat that covered his eyes. At the same time on the shawl miraculously imprinted image of the Savior in the crown of thorns. The legend became the foundation of the Orthodox icon of The Holy Face. " We, the non-experts, the easiest way to find this icon on the image scarf, on which the face of Jesus, even though the scarf (most say "boards") paint a different and rather conventional. Western Christians have such an image is called "holy handkerchief of Veronica."

From a connoisseur of Russian art a priest Valentine Dronov I heard a story that quote here verbatim: "Two or three times in my life did I see the icon of the" Holy Face "is a wonderful property. The eyes of Jesus on it seemed then open, then closed. It depended on mental state prayer. If he was calm - Savior as if asleep. If, however, was agitated - his eyes were opened. Houses Valentine's father kept a photograph of that image, which is given here.

I have not been able to find anything like this in our museums. In the guide to Bethlehem - the city where, according to tradition, Christ was born, said that one of the frescoes on the column in the church of the Nativity has the same property: the face on an icon opens and closes his eyes. "

Icon, which is told, is very rare, it is important any evidence that people who had seen or even heard of such images. We ask readers must notify the Editorial Board.

Kalinin.

1) Gabriel von Max. "St. Veronica's handkerchief." 1870's. Germany.
2) "Holy Face". Image of the 1970's with the picture of an unknown artist, Russia.

[Anton]

Here are some interesting "facts."

extended family of Marc Chagall - Orthodox Jews - it was against his father.

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Uncle Israel, frequenter of the synagogue, even the hand of his nephew was afraid to file, and suddenly it draw? One of the first commandments of God to the Jews, transmitted through Moses, says: "Do not do ... no picture of what is in heaven above, and on earth beneath, or that in the water under the earth." This ban Jews observe many centuries. By the way, have you thought about that - why Isaac Levitan wrote only landscapes?

That is mestomne particularly liked

Fantastic, at first glance, stories about the mystical connection of man and his image. Anna Akhmatova once said: "When people die, changed his portraits. Picturesque portrait painting - is a powerful energy structure. Painter not only wrote the canvas for a particular story - he conveys his feelings, thoughts and world view, and most importantly - a sentiment that generates energy and artistic paintings.

Russia's scientists investigating the "ghost" images of paintings, came to the conclusion that the powerful negative aura also have a "Ninth Wave by Aivazovsky and many other famous paintings.

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And in the study of energy "Black Square by Kazimir Malevich is one of the scientists ... lost consciousness. "This is one big blob of dark power and energy. Appear in the nether painting depicted" - confessed to the scientist, when he was with difficulty brought to their senses. On the painting by Malevich "Black Square", said before and say now. And not only in order to fill the price. Until now, no one knows what this box, and he wanted them to express Malevich. "Black Square" - a "black hole" in the painting, sucking the positive and negative energy emitted, which strongly affects the psyche of the viewer. However, the discussions around the "Black Square" do not calm down.



Alexander Benois, preaching freedom of creativity, cosmopolitan by conviction, he suddenly lashed out against cosmopolitanism Malevich, calling it a "black box" of the icon, which is offered to the Madonna. Malevich woke up famous in 1915 when exhibited at the exhibition "0.10" - "Black Square" - the last picture in the world, as he called it. This art is over. Malevich died in 1935 from cancer. When the coffin was carried on a truck in people used to say: probably a foreigner. Too pretentious and unintelligible. The urn with the ashes found in an open field near the cottages in Nemchinovka. At the grave - put a cube with a black square.

[qwerty]

Сообщение от LCR

absolutely necessary to mention Giorgio de Chirico

A remarkable artist, sorry only at the end of life began to repeat the scenes 20-ies: pictures, like, the same, but there is no tension.

[Zenia]

According to Orthodox tradition "Holy Face" nothing to do with what Veronica does not. A is related to the king! Now I do not remember which, I can clarify, but it seems Ageyskomu I do not remember now, it really was, whether this is the situation when he sent Christ and sent messengers to ask Jesus to say so to instruct. THEIR please him faith AMU put a towel to her face and gave it to couriers. Then it hung over the gate in the city (I think in a special niche ... but it is the details. And this is probably too Veronika Catholics invented. Painfully saccharine.
By the way, and Wikipedia: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Спас_Нерукотворный

The king went mistake: Edessa, he was not Ageysky.

[Anton]

In such a subject as possible without the "Mona Lisa"?

UV Khmelevsky

Another mystery of Leonardo. Who does not know the painting of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa, also known as" La Gioconda. " For five hundred years, the Mona Lisa mystery excites the minds of art historians, historians, scholars and amateurs of art. It turns out that her mysterious smile indicates that she is happy at 83%, this is the

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conclusion was reached recently, scientists from the University of Amsterdam, ie front of us almost a happy man. But why is this woman feels happy, and why Leonardo did not part with the portrait to his death, scholars are silent about this. If Leonardo was alive, we may have learned the secret of the picture, but today we can only do their assumptions and speculate on those facts which history has left us, but the facts are.

Researchers from Italy, Giuseppe Palano after a 25-year study of archival documents could accurately identify the women who served as a model of a great artist. Mysterious person named Lisa Gerardini. She was the third wife of a prosperous silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo and mother of five children. Mona Lisa del Giocondo was 24 years old when 51-year-old Leonardo began to create her portrait. Portrait painted in 1502-m or 1503-m. According to church records, Lisa gave birth to her second child in December 1502-th.

Professor Martin Kemp, the largest specialist on the works of da Vinci, I am sure that between the portrait of Mona Lisa and one of the anatomical drawings of the artist is a direct connection. This sketch, as if the image Mona Lisa "from within". That Leonardo was the first who drew the fetus inside the mother, and, in contrast to the views of his time, believed that in the conception of the child involved both male and female cells. Because Mona Lisa, he painted a pregnant woman, making a simple portrait of a symbol of motherhood and fertility. The state of the Mona Lisa, experts believe, point and its swollen fingers and hand position.

This version adheres to the author of this article. Supplementing the information to their observation, made in one of the specialized maternity hospitals of Moscow, where I had at one time present at the testing of the stimulator of labor activity. The future mother, about the same age as Lisa Gerardini at the beginning of the great master of her portrait, was already the tenth month of pregnancy. For all her dates have long had to bear, but no impulses in the fight it was not all doctors, including professors, associate professors, and "swirling" around her from morning to evening. Despite all the excitement of doctors and nursing mothers was absolutely calm. Her movements were slower and smooth and I felt as if the next nuclear bomb exploded, even then it remained perfectly calm. But the most striking was her face, it almost exactly coincides with my point of view, with the face of Mona Lisa. When I saw her, she sat in her chair, folded his hands on his knees, flowing straight hair, gently falling down from her shoulders and parted in the middle of the head, with a perfectly calm tranquil look small brown eyes, staring off somewhere inside myself, I still long time could not come from a feeling that revealed the mystery "Mona Lisa". Gioconda, too, was pregnant, this is the first thought that came to my head. Here's a story that happened to me in the late 70-ies of the last century and only now I am ready to share with her in connection with the writing of this article.

Another confirmation of our hypothesis is obtained from the Canadian and French scientists. Recent studies have pictures using Canadian technology of laser scanning three-dimensional images showed that the Mona Lisa is cloaked in a barely noticeable transparent veil. This detail paintings not previously been able to discern, because the background looked too dark. In Italy, the sixteenth century, these blankets could be pregnant or have just given birth to a woman. According to scientists, the portrait has been dated to the birth of second son of the Mona Lisa and, thus, can more accurately establish the date of creation of a masterpiece - about 1503.

I myself have not seen, it would be interesting to hear from eyewitnesses: What picture?

[Сергеич]

I have seen. In 95 году happened to be in Paris. With some difficulty found a little dark. Close does not go all the time crowd. Not like it. Photograph was possible. But before leaving the Louvre suddenly remembered that somewhere else should be Venus. They ran back to search, find, liked.

[Сергеич]

Mystery of the Black Square
Yu Hmelesky

Once, in a radio broadcast Virage time, "the poet Andrei Dementiev said the artist Alexander Shilov:" What is the meaning of well-known paintings by Kazimir Malevich - Black Square?

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The artist without hesitation, replied: "No relationship to art, this picture has no meaning in it and no, no. Any child can draw a square. But the poet did not give up, see this question worried him, and told the following incident. Once he had visited in London, and a grandee invited him to his guests. She had a private collection of paintings, which she showed to the poet. Our poet was struck by a large painting consisting of pure white linen, in one corner of which is drawn a black dot. The lady was very fond of this picture. What is the value and meaning of this painting, he asked the poet to the artist. As for the first time, the artist replied: "This painting is nothing said, it's generally not the picture."

Perhaps every child and draw a black square, but never draw an absolute evil, however, like many people, even famous, artists. Almost any artist can depict the natural elements that surround it (to draw a landscape, portrait or still life, etc.), good or bad, is another question. But how to depict, for example, an absolute evil or good, or different feelings, such as deep loneliness? For example, in the Russian folk tales, the absolute evil represented Koshcheev immortal serpent dragon or devil. In reality, no such characters, but people found a way to display the image of these villains. Koschey - the image of the bones, the image of death - a strong negative emotion. Along the way, note that this kind of evil can be defeated, as claimed, and encouraged by the Russian folk tale. Death Koshchei "immortal" - at the end of the needle. You can build a logical chain: Koschey - evil, any evil - a sin, and sin leads to disease (definition of sin has its own disease, see the article about the paradise tree), but the disease can be effectively treated with acupuncture, according to Chinese and modern medicine . Serpent Gorynych symbolizes the destructive forces of nature (volcanic activity). The devil - in the sense of black or dark, also has negative emotions. In poetry, absolute evil is also well represented. Thus, for example, AS Pushkin, in the poem "The Upas Tree, a tree, kill any living thing that adjoins and is the image of absolute evil. In Russian fairy tales is a nondescript animal, black, with horns and a long tail. On these grounds the artist can draw, for example, a black goat or a horned cow, black with a long tail, but this does not mean that he represented absolute evil. Artists also are trying to play this difficult image. For example, the famous painting Vrubel - "Demon".

Artwork can affect the viewer in a way that is depicted on it. This image can be pleasant or unpleasant to the beholder. An unpleasant image causes negative emotions, and certain types of emotions, as we have shown in previous articles, on the impact of functional organs, thus affecting the health. If we remove the images from the film and leave only a different color or one color, such a cloth would also be two ways to influence our health, depending on whether, like the color on the canvas to us or not (see the article "Color therapy"), ie Again, this is the impact through our emotions (negative or positive). And the third option, if we remove the picture and color images, leaving only the various geometric, meaningless figures in different proportions. Even so, at first glance, an abstract painting, nothing speaking, can affect our health, depending on the resulting emotions (positive or negative). If these figures are drawn on a white canvas, the very background of this canvas, as a certain color, has an additional effect on people, through his emotions. If the figures are made subject to the rules of "Golden Section", then this pattern is likely to have a positive effect and, conversely, when non-compliance with this rule - a negative impact.

So what brilliant painting by Kazimir Malevich's Black Square "? This cloth is the image of absolute evil. Black color - the most gloomy, oppressive (oppressive) and "cold" of all colors. Well, the geometric proportions of sides of a square (1:1) is practically not occur in nature. In life, work rules "golden section", when the ratio of geometric dimensions are not equivalent, such as the ratio of the height of the famous pyramids of Cheops to half the base of 1,618 - one of the five invariants "golden section". Look at the things around you: at home, windows, doors, desks, cabinets, paintings, screens and TV monitors, etc., unless they are square. Try to find at least one square painting in the Tretyakov Gallery. Square - the most unpleasant geometrical figure.

Thus, the most obnoxious - the color black and the most unpleasant geometric shape - square, in the aggregate, and it is an abstract representation of absolute evil, as a possible negative impact on the human body by using color and shape.

At mentally balanced, healthy person does not make this picture much of an impression. Figure it may seem unpleasant, uninteresting, and most likely, he'll pass, especially without stopping. But on the melancholic, so even with poor health, mentally unbalanced and impressionable, this figure will have a strong negative impact. The positive impact of the Black Square is possible to overexcited sanguine.

Well, that says a white canvas with a dot in the corner. This is perfectly expressed deep sense of loneliness, presented in abstract form. Apparently, this lady from London was deeply lonely, and the picture perfectly resonated with her feelings.

Well, that says a white canvas with a dot in the corner. This is perfectly expressed deep sense of loneliness, presented in abstract form. Apparently, this lady from London was deeply lonely, and the picture perfectly resonated with her feelings.

Recently saw a picture of a "wrenching" in my poshibche than white canvas with a point.
Artist Peganova Olga - bunny.

[Zenia]

"You do not have the feeling that events such as a planned? Friend with a calendar and each book came at the right time.

- Yes, it was no accident. Maybe it sounds strange, but for me it was a gift to find rest and contemplation. Could it be otherwise, I would not have received. I have always been very active physically: my education: the teacher of gymnastics, so that a complete physical rest for me was the complete opposite of what I have always done. For me was very important to plunge into your own private world where I found work where I could change myself. This is very interesting and I express it in my work. The most important thing in life to have the joy, then this joy can spread from you on how the circles in the water, and bring joy to others, which in turn will please someone else. Thus, we create positive energy in our lives, it helps to take around, to take full and varied life. "

This piece of article, which I am now preparing to publish in Russian. (In Danish it is already written). Article penetrated the energy of joy. Energy that helped the artist to overcome the trauma of the spine and become an artist. Maybe it does not work are technical masterpieces, but its history this does not become less interesting. The paper will be published in the coming days.
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[Евгений]

Сообщение от Konstantin

Here's more food for thought.

Constantine, suggest a new topic for your pictures:
                  Cosmogram CENTRAL ASIA

  Every historical and cultural region has its own characteristic graphic sign system that reflects the essential part of its culture, perceptions of the macro-and micro-Cosme. Here is a small collection of iconic songs, collected in Central Asia, and represent the opinion of the author's attitude of medieval culture. The time of their "appearance" refers to the IX-XI centuries. When, in the framework of Samani Ghaznavids later, Seljuk and Karakhanids is synthesized actually Central Asian and Muslim traditions. A new landmark was built but on the field abstracted symbols, fundamentally different from the more ancient pictorial tradition of Central Asia, adjoining the ancient realism. Sacred geometry of these signs is conceptually consistent with the visual "language" of Eastern mandalas and yantras, has continued to craft solutions ornamental ancient Russia, mint coinage of the Golden Horde, the European arms XV-XVI centuries.
http://www.arapov.globalnet.uz/index...mp;TotalArts=1