Spiritual Forum

I just thought I`ll bring a little colour into the forum by exposing my deep relation to certain art expressions. Finally there is nothing that can be properly explained - good art is not made for verbal explanation. It is mad for our senses and feelings.

I know that each human is different approaching also different art styles. Otherwise I have observed that many people have no  or hardly any access to art whatsoever.

I could actually write a whole book which I think makes no sense at all. So I made a cut and decided to expose only a handfull which are important to me. Be gentle with me. And maybe you have courage to show us your favorites too.

Art I consider a natural partner of spirituality...

This is from Iwan Aiwasowski, called "The Ninth Wave".

Shipwrecked people float on the sea, and the ninth wave, the most dangerous one is breaking while the colours of the sky convey hope...

It is an old motif - sitting in a nutshell floating on troubled waters.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau is the painter of this pieta. It conveys a haunting and almost spooky flair.

This picture I find very close to the atmosphere I experienced when I came from a dead bed. A mother and even cosmic entities mourn for the dead son, here Christ. What a look from the mother!

It is an old motif wanting to encourage those who mourn and stand at the edge of death, for Christ is a deep symbol of both, life and death.

I live an hour from Naumburg, a famous city with a cathedral from 1250. And this is the famous lady I fell in love with when I was a child: Uta.

Her figure and others were made by an unknown master called "the master from Naumburg". He was the first in those times giving stone figures personality with incredible impressions.

It is amazing having a master giving others personal looks while he disappeared into oblivion.

This is an old motif - you lose your ego and disappear while saying "I did only my job with the talents God gave me...".

Here is Marc Chagall`s painting "Couple en Ocre". It is a loving couple, and Chagall takes serious what people use to say - love is turning somebody`s head. Thus the head of the woman is turned upside down. And then the excited body... Is there the moon in the sky?

It is an old motif loving under the moon, for Selene is considered a godess of brightness...

Here we see a house complex from Hundertwasser, a famous artist who died a couple years ago.

He loved forms and structures apart from right angles and classified features.

Hundertwasser made his architecture closer to mind`s intention to play with forms and colours.

This is from Jean Arp called "Christ on the Cross". Arp lost his wife and fell in deep depression. A friend asked him to engage with the figure of Christ.

It took a long time. The picture above is from a time he came out of his depressions.

The cross has changed into something what looks like beams of light coming out of Christ`s head. His arms are like holding up from joy. The whole figure appears like dancing. Is that his final defeat of all cross and dead? An amazing help to get cured from depression...