Friday, December 31, 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Picture: Cameron Falls, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada - cloned with detail from my painting "Monument to the Unborn War Hero"

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

25th Anniversary WEAVEWORLD Edition illustrated by Richard A. Kirk

Richard Kirk, a valued member of our Visionary Art Network,  just released this very exciting news on Facebook:

Now that the above advertisement has been published, I can finally let the proverbial cat out of the bag. The cat in this case being the news that I will be spending a good deal of 2011 illustrating the 25th anniversary edition of Clive Barker's Weaveworld. It will be published by Earthling, who I have worked with for a number of years on projects, illustrating the the writing of Christopher Golden, China Mieville and Jeffery Thomas. I read Weaveworld when it first came out in the mid 1980s, my first thought on finishing the book, was "man would I like to illustrate this thing." Actually there was an expletive in there but I'll spare you that detail. Well, now I am getting my shot. Can't wait. As many of you know, I've had the good fortune to work with Clive Barker on a number of projects. I think this will be the best yet!
Other news (and apologies to my FB pals that have already heard this), issue 301 of Fangoria Magazine will carry a profile on my work written by David Goodfellow. David is an excellent writer and has done a great job of taking my ramblings and putting them into a nice coherent whole. There will be pictures with the profile of course, so check it out!
Finally, I am very busy completing the first draft of The Red Lamprey, my next novel from Radiolaria Studios. I hope to have that done in early January when I will start the illustrations and begin the careful revisions, additions, deletions and so on. The story continues where The Lost Machine left off, but is an entirely new stand alone tale. My dear friend Hans Rueffert will be writing a foreword.
 Happy New Year everyone!
 Richard.


Weaveworld

Thursday, December 23, 2010

SAACHI GALLERY SHOWDOWN - MARY SHERIDAN and OTTO RAPP - please vote for us!

The Saachi Gallery Showdown Voting has started today!
My friend Mary Sheridan and I had entered the contest and would appreciate your vote!
Preliminary Round Voting: December 23, 2010, 10:00 am - January 6, 2011, 9:59 am


Only the top 128 entries advance to the Final Showdown!


Final Voting: January 6, 2011, 10:00 am - January 20, 2011, 9:59 am

Winner announced January 20, 2011, 10:00 am

Prize:The winner will receive US $1000 - The runner up will receive US $500 - The winning works will go on to display at the Saatchi Gallery in London




MARY SHERIDAN

OTTO RAPP

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

VISIONARY ART GALLERY - LEO WIJNHOVEN

Leo Wijnhoven joined us just recently:
LEO WIJNHOVEN

LEO WIJNHOVEN

 Mountain, Tree, Bird + Butterfly by LEO WIJNHOVEN
Mountain, Tree, Bird and Butterfly

men-nature ; the end of western modernism



globalism

identity



CREATIVITY(DIVERSITY) INSTEAD OF MARKETING (UNIFORMITY)

My work is about social, economic, political and scientific developments in our post-modern world, particularly globalism (i.e. uniformity, fragmentation and identity problems), the free-market ideology (mass consumption), the media and show business and about (the end of) Western modernism (and its hierarchical relationship to nature).
I am not so much concerned with personal (free) expression as with communication (changing consciousness), which is why I use a broad range of styles (based on realism). My aim is to look critically at Western modernism (the distinction between body and mind [= matter + energy], i.e.rationalism, materialism, mechanism, dehumanising, reductionism,linear thought, narrowmindedness, hierarchy, control and exploitation of nature [taking only, no balance or harmony], the cult of self,expansion/growth [the idea of progress]. I am looking for new assumptions and starting points where modernistic assumptions have failed. In other words, I am referring back to pre-modernism [including primitive cultures] to find out how we can start again. For the past century we have factually already been living in a non-modernistic world. All products requiring electricity (including computers and the internet but also the A-bomb, laser, holographics,nanotechnology and so on) are based on quantum mechanics, which states that there is NO separation between matter and energy. Modernistic duality [and thus the other modernistic assumptions] has been proven wrong for the past century! However, we are still living with a modernistic mentality or mindset, which is the root cause of many of our current problems (particularly the climate change and the financial-economic system, i.e. political and social issues).
 
 Modernism:

Control + exploitation of nature.
 
rationality---------------------------------------------] analytically,.
-- materialism, mechanism, dehumanisation------] causal,.
reductionism-----------------------------------------] and linear thinking.
hierarchy-------------------------].
--oa.racisme----------------------].
egocultus-------------------------] submission.
-- individualism, hedonism,----] +.
-- short-term thinking----------] categorization.
expansion------------------------].
colonialism, globalism-------].
idea of progress.
growth, property.
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Friday, December 17, 2010

VISIONARY ART GALLERY - JOACHIM LILIE

JOACHIM LILIE

JOACHIM LILIE

JUMP by JOACHIM LILIE

Zeichnung- Drawings


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Malerei- Paintings


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Aquarell


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

VISIONARY ART YEARBOOK - $ 10 off until December 31st!

THE VISIONARY ART EMPORIUM
VISIONARY ART YEARBOOK
 
2010 - 2011
 

VISIONARY ART YEARBOOK 2010 - 2011
available Softcover, Hardcover Dustjacket or Hardcover ImageWrap
160 pages, Premium Paper, lustre finish

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In January 2009, Otto Rapp started a Private Network of Visionary Artists on the Ning Platform with a handful of friends. Since then, the Membership has steadily grown and includes some of the very best Visionary Artists in the Universe.
Many of these artists had been friends for decades, others are new to the fold.
Published on
blurb, this Yearbook is a celebration of the cooperative spirit of these Artists and their accomplishments.
 Over 400 pictures and illustrations, with essays by
De Es Schwertberger, Sigrid Nepelius, Prof. Philip Rubinov-Jacobson, Helena Nelson-Reed and Delvin Solkinson, as well as numerous memorable quotes by our members.
 A special section of 3 blank pages at the end of the book was designed to collect signatures: bring the book to the next exhibition of our artists to have it signed.

VISIONARY ART YEARBOOK 2010 - 2011
PREVIEW

WHEN EVERYONE PULLS TOGETHER ....

THE VISIONARY TRIBE

It could be said that the genealogy and history of the Visionary Tribe stretches back to the caves of Lascaux, but has never been addressed by art historians from the mainstream or academia. In any event, the spawning of these transpersonal artists has been mysterious, suggesting a positive spiritual conspiracy of sub-cultural light being disseminated and orchestrated from some higher order of reality. Over the decades I have witnessed the return of many of these creative workers; returning home like wayward spirits to the roots of their aesthetic, returning home to their Tribe. They arrive with a creative power to face both the inner and outer worlds, the joy and terror, in order to see. They are not satisfied to conform to the world for they want to penetrate its mysteries. They want to use their art and skills to immerse and unveil the spirit in all things and express and create their findings like cartographers of consciousness.

 They come like sleepwalkers following their original vision and that vision awakens and stirs the spirit. Long centuries have trodden on the graves of ancient adepts, almost entirely obliterating all sense of spiritual ecstasy from the hearts of humankind, and have taken the lightning from our eyes. This is what the Visionary Tribe provides: a restoration and recall from spiritual amnesia of what we attained long ago, what we are now and to what we might yet become; they restore lightning to the eyes. They realize that a vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, and that a vision and a task is the hope of the world.
Philip Rubinov-Jacobson
Interior detail Nymphaeum Omega Sanctuum at the Ernst Fuchs Villa in Vienna - Photo by Otto Rapp

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

JEAN THOMASSEN - DECEMBER VISIONARY ARTIST OF THE MONTH

ARTIST OF THE MONTH

Our Artist for the month of December 2010 is

JEAN THOMASSEN

JEAN THOMASSEN
The Artist by Jean Thomassen
The Artist
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