Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: Portrait of Myself Florine Stettheimer's 1923 oil painting Portrait of Myself is credited as the first female full-figure nude self-portrait. Often, just when we think she is being her most naïvely "uninfluenced," Stettheimer is in fact translating some recherché source into her own idiom. Such is the case with
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: Beksiński Time after time, when interviewers asked him to explain the meaning behind his images, Beksiński would grow silent and defensive, then suggest that his viewers simply appreciate the aesthetics of what he had given them, rather than try to interpret their emotional significance. In an online interview on Symbolism, 1997,
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: Titania and Bottom During the Enlightenment, a time of over-idealized rationality, Fuseli painted fantasies that sought to reveal deeper truths. This scene inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream shows Queen of the Fey Titania enchanted by a potion her husband has deployed against her for her "pride.
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: Through the Mist Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: Inanna Prepares for the Descent Inanna prepares for the descent into the underworld
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: Temporary Reception Center This film by Paci depicts a group of people, mostly Mexican, who stand on an aircraft stairway. The stairway in a Californian airport is a center where the migrants feel as though they are in a portal arriving after fleeing their respective countries. Paci uses the video technique to focus
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: Still Life "There is a rebel in me—the Shadow-Beast. It is a part of me that refuses to take orders from outside authorities." —Gloria AnzaldúaAxiomata by IYNX 1. Fukuda, Katsuji. 1954. Still Life. [Image]. Artsy. Retrieved from: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/katsuji-fukuda-still-life 2. Anzaldúa, Gloria. 2007. Borderlands/La
Energy Tools Dream Shield Meditation for Protection and Empowerment Dreams are potent spaces of healing, connection, processing, insight, and more. Through our dreams and subconscious, we have access to the realm of possibilities. Our dreams and dreaming states can be exploited by intrusive parties, if we aren't actively and intentionally protecting ourselves. This can happen more than
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: La Verbena (The Street Fair) I've had this painting tucked away for a while. We've been guided to use it for this week's art find, but I'll be honest: I feel repulsion when I look at it. The funny thing is that it's not really
Channeling+Experiments Reawaken There is a time and a place And a way to know between A palace exists in our minds Let's travel forth To see what we can find
Channeling+Experiments Containers for the Work: Style as Language When channeling, it's important to consider the containers that we use for the message. Language is a main mediator and container for much channeled content. Different channels or mediums have different language banks and structures to work from, which contributes to the filtering that happens with any given
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: Death by Moebius Creativity/pleasure = receptivity/sensuality + action/intention = access to the realm of spirit, magick, and possibilities To the realm of memory, true memory, true connection beyond the gaps and absences of the simulation. From an ArtFutura interview with Moebius: How do you get in touch with that universe? Oh, it’s
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: Two Photographic Artifacts Two photographic artifacts that represent interactions between human, technology, and our surrounding realities—producing changes in how we see, conceive of, and can represent those realities.
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: Five Depictions of Sensuality and Intimacy Somehow Friday flew past and it's now a new week. To make up for this, our art find for this post consists of a series of five photographs. These images offer depictions of sensuality, eroticism, and intimacy. These photographs provoke us to consider: What does sexuality and intimacy
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: L'après-midi d'un faune You are the dreamer. In “L'après-midi d'un faune” by Stéphane Mallarmé (1876), a faun wakes from his afternoon sleep and daydreams a different kind of dream. His recollecting of previous sensual encounters evokes the sacred sexuality that resonates with our true, wild hearts and whose repression
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: The Voice When you behold a sacred fire without form Shining flashingly through the depths of the whole world Hear the voice of fire. —Chaldean Oracles 1. Pelton, Agnes. (1930). The Voice [Image]. Burchfield Penney Art Center. Retrieved from: https://burchfieldpenney.org/art-and-artists/artwork/object:l2017-001-133-the-voice-originally-titled-the-voice-of-silence/
Art Is Magick Friday Art Find: Brueghel’s Tribute to Cybele Through the cycles of time, life death and rebirth, Through seasons of change, You carry us, You hold us in Your abundance. We strive to hold all that You are in our hearts, And to comprehend the expanses of Your Divine Love. This painting gives tribute to Mother Goddess Cybele
