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Western Esoteric Art

The best truth is secret truth

Art is a perfect vessel for containing secrets. While written information can be hidden in a cypher, hinted at in metaphor, or implied through conspicuous absence, a painting can encode meaning in the colors used, the composition of elements, the expression and gestures of the figures it contains, and in an endless catalog of esoteric visual symbols only understood by those initiated into the mysteries. read more

Western Esoteric Art, Age of Exploration

The Etruscans, 400BCE

Chimera of Arezzo

This is an undeniably modern interpretation. The chimera, like most beasts of antiquity, was the bad guy. Child of the giant serpent Typhon and the half woman half snake Echidna (you know her from the Starbucks logo) the Chimera was an abominable thing, unnatural combination of lion and goat, with the head of a snake for a tail. Her brothers and sisters live in legend. read more

Chimera of Arezzo, The Etruscans

What's in a name?

Names are assigned to us before we are aware of their meaning, and we grow into them as much as they come to reflect us. In Japan artists often changed names after milestones in their lives, but in the west, once you've been given a name, you're usually stuck with it—a rigidity that makes claiming a new name even more powerful magic. read more

Toyen, The Artists

Sascha Schneider, 1904

To Sascha Schneider the male body was perfection, and the world its antagonist. Schneider worked in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, during the development of Freikörperkultur, free body culture, also called the Health and Hygiene movement. Freikörperkultur aimed to counteract the restraint and stress of industrialization with a restorative mix of open air nudity, exercise, and healthy diet. read more

Hypnosis, Sascha Schneider

Born on April 26

John James Audubon, The Artists

John James Audubon

Friend of the birds

Eugène Delacroix, The Artists

Portrait of Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix

Drama, movement and a search for the exotic

Théodore Géricault, The Artists

Portrait of Théodore Géricault

Théodore Géricault

Bigger is better

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, The Artists

Portrait of Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Telling the mystic tales of Finland

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