All posts tagged #artmovement
Retro causality and the Advanced and Retarded Wave Junction: TS Eliot, Jim Morrison and Joni Mitchell
Posted by artcritique on February 3, 2024
https://artcritique.wordpress.com/2024/02/03/retro-causality-and-the-advanced-and-retarded-wave-junction-ts-eliot-jim-morrison-and-joni-mitchell/
Mahakala in Time and Transcending Time: Biswarup Darshan and Purushottam Yoga
#Advaitavedanta Alblackica Alblackica Consciousness Art Atman Awareness Bengal Bon Brahman Buddha Chintamani Stone Christ Consciousness Dark Energy Divine Mother Gyan-Ganj Higgs Field Hyperspace India Jim Morrison Kalki Avatar Lahiri Mahasaya Maha-Avatar Babaji Maharaj Mahakal Micro-Gravity Mirra Alfassa Music Nicholas Roerich Olmo-Lung-Ring Quantum Consciousness Quantum Entanglement Quantum Reality Retrocausality Savitri Shambhala Sirius Spirituality Sri Aurobindo Sri Krishna Supermind Supramental The Doors Tibet Yogishwar Sri Kalipada Guharoy Zen
Posted by artcritique on January 24, 2024
https://artcritique.wordpress.com/2024/01/24/mahakala-in-time-and-transcending-time-biswarup-darshan-and-purushottam-yoga/
The Sarbari Roy Chowdhury Festival of Music 2024: A Tribute by Various Musicians on his 91st Birth Anniversary
Sarbari Roy Chowdhury, the great sculptor whose works married the academic sensibility and realism of classical eastern or oriental art forms , with the modern abstraction and cubism of the west, whose interest in classical music poured directly into his works, as if the stone, clay or wood are entangled with the frequencies of music, not just as a idea or thought but supra-physically in a deeper sense, an introspection which is the fundamental bedrock of the creative artistic process, for a musician, painter or poet, in his his own words resembles a process of transformation of pain into ecstasy, a superconscient that hibernated in the depths of the human subconscious, in his own words “an artist must live on the edge of that anguish at all times to render it in his creation”, a crowning line that very much became the sustainable ethos of this esteemed music festival as a tribute to his birth anniversary. Musician from everywhere, new and old, well established and those who are looking to make their mark are all welcome, in a platform where artists manage the program, the promotion, the funds, and, almost everything required to host such an event where famous musicians like Pandit Krishna Bhatt, Pandit Abhijit Banerjee Abhik Mukherjee, David Trasoff, Ehren Hansen were the sharing the stage with other local musicians and artists. “All in such a short notice, the Durga Bari, a historical place is where musicians can collaborate, express themselves, a camaraderie which my father was so enthused about, a tradition I and my brother, trying live up to, with helping hands from various friends and artists, in India and abroad” said his son, Sougata Roy Chowdhury, himself an established sarid player. On display were rare photographs taken at Sarbari Roy Chowdhury’s residence of musicians including Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Siddheswari Devi, Mallikarjun Mansur and many other legendary musicians.
Sarbari Roy Chowdhury’s interest in music and his friendship with musicians is uncompromisingly a definitive feature of his artistic works which he says the visual forms of music embedded in stone and clay – the sculpturliness of music which is often not understood at the surface level of things as they are. A subjective awareness, a flash of spiritual insight, was common among all legendary musicians in India, whom he adored, it was also prevalent among, Western artists, like Rodin (The Thinking Man), Giacometti and Henry Moore and others. In fact, Florence, the city of artists, and art, became the meeting point of Sarbari Roy Chowdhury, Henri Moore and Giacometti in 1962.
To encapsulate this music festival, we have to turn back again to his words where he describes the pain associated with creation which he strived to express and preserve in his work- “pain like music, touches the soul and the heart and transforms an intellectual perception into an experience” – words that resonate with Sri Dilip Kumar Roy conversations with Romain Rolland in the early 20th century at Lucerne, where Rolland said that an artist must suffer like a Christ figure, that only differentiates from mundane lives, Tolstoy, Rembrandt, Beethoven are great examples of it.
-Joy Roy Choudhury
Posted by artcritique on January 21, 2024
https://artcritique.wordpress.com/2024/01/21/the-sarbari-roy-chowdhury-festival-of-music-2024-a-tribute-by-various-musicians-on-his-91st-birth-anniversary/
5th December 2023: Maha-Samadhi Day of Sri Aurobindo
Beyond the logic gates
And the wrought iron similitudes
Lies a space shrouded in mystery
And when the fog clears away
A resplendent sun is awaiting in samadhi ….
That which knows, and, knows not
And simply floats like withered leaf or a raven’s feather
Wears the crown of the clear light of Venus (5th & 6th (on & off December, 2023)
Posted by artcritique on December 5, 2023
https://artcritique.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/5th-december-2023-maha-samadhi-day-of-sri-aurobindo/
Happy Guru Nanak Jayanti: May the World be bestowed with Peace and Tranquility
“Owing to ignorance of the rope, the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the self.” – Guru Nanak
From Guru Nanak to Victor Hugo: It may sound strange, but, I assure it is not. Art from the unconscious is deeply symbolical and it’s connected with our own process of Self-Enquiry. The process streams with consciousness, reflected consciousness, once the mirror is polished then IT shines through and makes experience possible. From duality to non-duality and back to the marketplace (turia state or Zen’s last state in Oxherding plates), the quest is possible if there’s “Ishwarah Anugraha” (citation Guru Gita 1st sloka) – without the grace, it’s not possible simply by effort 🙏.
We are so much obsessed with Victor Hugo, the writer, the poet, the scathing social injustice author of the classic Les Miserables (1862), that, we have overlooked a great fact, which is nonetheless, cited by none other than Andre Breton as automatic drawing. Hugo’s intuitive experimentation in art is a secret that needs to be well acclaimed by people, he produced almost 4000 drawings, most of them not meant to be shown in public. Automatic writing or drawing – which the surrealists drawn upon in their work, is all about using the hand to do what it wants to rather than preemptive cognitive decisions that govern our thinking process. Like Hugo didn’t know what he would do on a Friday evening with a roll of paper and ink blots. ….yes, he cared not to know, in a Zen way, one shouldn’t let the right arm know the release time/moment of the shooting of the arrow. Difficult, but, can be done…there are many examples of that all over and specially in spritual poetry or psychic art. Also same in music by the way…..I don’t think Bob Dylan knows exactly where he would put an end to his lyrics, he has a pattern for the verse but not every word is consciously chosen.
Ink and a quill
Both the nib and feather
Far away your setting sun, the Other
You may choose to run
beyond the horizon
And end up near your favourite apple tree…. (Something like this…!)
What is a free flowing communication that doesn’t get bogged down by preset interference pattern? That’s in reality was part of 19th Century spiritualism – Breton already said that Hugo was the forerunner of Surrealism, he was playing with chance any allowing it to evoke unforseen forces responding to the free-flowing communication that was part of nineteenth-century Spiritualism. Hugo attended séances during his exile, and actively kept a diary of dreams.
Then we have a dream world both in waking state and in dream state along with deep sleep mode. The waking dream seems apparently real, the dream state unreal, that’s our observation, and, we almost have no query about deep sleep mode. Well it’s time to ssk Wahi Guru !!!! Yes, Today….(3 interconnected words and I won’t say more Guru-Govind-Granth) and there is only non-dual consciousness – it doesn’t need to pervade any space time like an incense stick….because fundamentally matter energy and space time are all in it…..
What a beautiful day!
2 artworks – Guru Nanak and A dreamy Landscape from rare collections of Victor Hugo paintings edited by Stefanie Heraeus, translated by Deborah Laurie Cohen ( History Workshop Journal)*that was lying in my desk adding soot to my psyche.
Someday will discuss whats the connection with Vajrayana! And thanks to Sarvapriyananda ji and Guru Ji for making things as clear as a crystal. With little help from Divine Mother!
– JRC
Posted by artcritique on November 27, 2023
https://artcritique.wordpress.com/2023/11/27/happy-guru-nanak-jayanti-may-the-world-be-bestowed-with-peace-and-tranquility/
Self-Illumination as an Act of Artistic Resonance
What is artistic resonance? When the energy bodies vibrate with the ultimate cosmic frequency, when poise is reached amidst chaos, but, the transcendence happens by respecting the mutual negation of order/disorder within a framework of beauty which which is implicit in the design of being-awareness or existence itself. – JRC
Posted by artcritique on November 23, 2023
https://artcritique.wordpress.com/2023/11/23/self-illumination-as-an-act-of-artistic-resonance/
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