Positively contributing to our collective illumination …
A highlight reel of Fedor Emelianenko, who up until only a few weeks ago was known to be the best fighter walking the face of the planet. A stoic, steely eyed Russian he had an aura about him, part cyborg , part human. He would walk to the ring emotionless, yet he is deeply religious, his expression unchanging even when experiencing what to most would be extreme stress. He seemed almost invincible, physically not imposing with the physique of an everyman, he is a true martial artist that performed his physical alchemy in the ring. A few weeks ago he suffered his first defeat in the ring, which has dulled some of the invincible aura he had about him, but even in defeat he showed deep and complex understanding of rhythm as he stated after the fight “He who does not fall, never stands”. Enjoy this superb highlight reel of the man !
The art and artistic depiction is a subjective phenomenon. What an artist sees with his or her eyes is same as all of us see with our eyes. But what an artist perceives through the filters of imagination makes a difference. We can see a rose and would understand that it is beautiful and looks nice on the plant, makes out a good scene in our veranda. But when an artist see the same rose, he or she might think that the rose has unlimited colors on its petals and every petal is radiating these colors in the surrounding. In short every artist would think differently. Al Salvador Dali was the man who thought very differently.
Dali, A Spanish artist, was one of the most skilled artists of twentieth century. His images were striking and the shapes he painted looked bizarre; but he had invented a brand new style of painting. Though he belonged to a clan of the artists known as surrealists, he had carved out his individual space in the world of art of painting. Painting under influence of the great Russian artists, he had tried to paint his individuality and own imaginations. He painted the world as he had perceived with his eyes of imaginations.
Were we to evaluate the artworks of any artists, we should know about how the artist imagined while doing his work of painting. Every artist has his or her peculiar temperament and the method of expressing herself or himself. Dali took the help of symbolism while doing his painting. And he used the symbolism in art extensively and very significantly with deep meaning. In the paintings of watches he had tried depicting that the time is not a fixed phenomenon, but a relative one.
Nice interview with artist Alex Grey.
Well, my work is primarily examining the nature of consciousness, and it uses various mediums to explore that question. The work’s main subject is the question of human identity and life, so I examine the human body on the physical level and interlace the subtle energies and systems of understanding from both eastern and western occult mystical traditions. I take a multicultural perspective because I want to get as many truths as I can into the vision of what a human being is.
This interesting article goes to show the effects of LSD on an artist as he attempts to draw a portrait .
These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD — part of a test conducted by the US government during it’s dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950′s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.
First drawing is done 20 minutes after the first dose (50ug)
An attending doctor observes – Patient chooses to start drawing with charcoal.
The subject of the experiment reports – ‘Condition normal… no effect from the drug yet’.
Great results !
