Spiritualist art
Spiritualist art or spirit art or mediumistic art or psychic painting is a form of art, mainly painting, influenced by spiritualism. Spiritualism influenced art, having an influence on artistic consciousness, with spiritual art having a huge impact on what became modernism and therefore art today.[1]
Famous spiritual artists include Georgiana Houghton and Piet Mondrian.[2]
Spiritualism also inspired the pioneering
Precipitated paintings
"Precipitation" is works of art that appeared on canvas, ostensibly without the use of human hands, during a Spiritualist
Automatic drawing
Automatic drawings (distinguished from surrealist automatism), a term thought to originate with Anna Mary Howitt, were produced by mediums and practitioners of the psychic arts. It was thought by Spiritualists to be a spirit control that was producing the drawing while physically taking control of the medium’s body.[5] An alternative term for this is psychic painting.
In Brazil, among the various alleged mediums that stand out in this particular area, the names of Luiz Antonio Gasparetto , José Medrado , Marilusa Moreira Vasconcelos and Florêncio Anton , among others.
Portraying the spirits
In the heyday of Spiritualism, it became very common for mediums to sketch portraits of spirits who they claimed were present during the seances.[4]
Auragraphs
Auragraphs, which represent a person’s past, present, and potential as seen by a medium or clairvoyant. The name was coined, and the technique developed, by British medium Harold Sharp (1890-1980).[4][6]
Spirit architecture
The
In the 1880s, Senator Federico Rosazza (1813-1899), an Italian politician connected with Masonic and spiritualist circles, commissioned the painter and architect Giuseppe Maffei (1821-1901), to convert a pre-existing village into a new town with his name,
See also
References
- ^ Grovier, Kelly. "The medium's medium: The artists who 'spoke' to the dead". www.bbc.com.
- ^ correspondent, Mark Brown Arts (May 5, 2016). "Spiritualist artist Georgiana Houghton gets UK exhibition" – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ Brenson, Michael (December 21, 1986). "Art View; How the Spiritual Infused the Abstract" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ a b c Spiritualism and the Mystery of Modern Art, Massimo Introvigne, July 28, 2017
- ^ Foot, Michelle. "How the Victorians brought famous artists back from the dead in seances". The Conversation.
- ^ "Auragraphs - Spirit Within Art". www.coralryder-spirit-psychic-art.com.
- ^ "ESSWE - European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism". www.esswe.org.
Further reading
- Early and contemporary spirit artists, psychic artists and medium painters from 5,000 B.C. to the present day. History, Study, Analysis, Maximillien de Lafayette, 2017
- The Spiritual Dynamic in Modern Art - Art History Reconsidered, 1800 to the Present, Charlene Spretnak, Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014
- Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West, Sarah Victoria Turner, Fulgur Limited, 2019
- Spiritualism and the Visual Imagination in Victorian Britain, Rachel Oberter, Yale University, 2007
- Precipitated Spirit Paintings, Ron Nagy, 2006
- Psychic Art, Seeing is Believing, Marion Voy, 2005
- Introduction to Psychic Art and Psychic Readings : An Easy-to-Use, Step-by-Step Illustrated Guidebook, Kim Roberts, Lucy Byatt, Findhorn Press Ltd, 2017
- Outsider Art: Visionary Worlds and Trauma, Daniel Wojcik, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2016
- The 300 masterpieces of art brut, outsider art, psychic art, spirit art, intuitive art, illuminated art, mediumistic art, Maximillien de Lafayette
- Spirit Paintings and Art from the Afterlife: The Greatest Spirit Artists and Medium Painters of all Time, Maximillien de Lafayette, 2015
External links
- Spirituality Has Long Been Erased From Art History. Here's Why It's Having a Resurgence Today
- Cardinal, Roger. "European Mediumistic Art in the Outsider Domain" (PDF). Raw Vision. Winter 1989/90 (2): 26. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- Spiritualism and the Visual Arts – WRSP
- http://www.spiritual-healing-artwork-4u.com/precipitated-spirit-painting.html