Read the extract of the text “What can be considered visionary art”?

Since the dawn of art, artists have attempted to reach and to show what the eyes don’t see, but the inner voice or the soul comprehend. Attempting to present the spiritual and the mystical and understanding that creativity and the produced images are bridges between the lower and the higher world, is the main concern of visionary art. As such, one can define the animal and human hybrid drawings and paintings found on cave walls, the ancient shamanic art, or the ritual masks of the African culture as some of the earliest examples of visionary art. These images, and many that followed this tradition of art making, aimed to transcend the physical sphere and to produce a wider vision of awareness which included the spiritual and the mystical.

One of the main aspects of visionary art is the idea that the produced images are in fact messages, guidelines, or prophesies given to the creatives by a divine force or by their altered state of being. Differing from the attempts of the Surrealist painters to elevate the dream-state into a higher reality, visionary authors use all means possible to access different states of consciousness and expose the resulting vision[1]. The aim of visionary art is to show what lies beyond the boundary of the sight, and using the images of dreams, or trances, present the visionary states that transcend our regular modes of perception.

 

 

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Go to the following site, watch the video

https://www.eomega.org/workshops/visionary-art-intensive

 

  • Use the list of key words about visionary art to write a paragraph to recap its main aspects using the new words you have learnt,
  • Find or create a work of art that you would define as visionary, you should be able to describe and analyse it.

Project: prepare a virtual exhibition of visionary art

  • find an artist whose work can be considered as visionary
  • choose one of his/her paintings: describe it carefully and analyse it.  Why is it visionary? (use what you have studied in this file)
  • submit your paragraph to the teacher, then paste it on tts.demo to make sure your pronunciation is right
  • Pin your work (audio file and painting) on the collaborative wall (ENT)

 

Spiritual Visions in William Blake's work

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch the video and fill in the gaps.

  1. He was a .............................................................
  2. He is described as the most ................................................... genius.
  3. He developed an ............................................... that has never been surpassed.
  4. He was .............................................. during his lifetime.
  5. He published his work in the ............................. but was only discovered in the ..........................
  6. He created his own religious................................................
  7. He saw himself as being in a ................................................................

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