Art As Spiritual Activity
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Art As Spiritual Activity
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Author : Rudolf Steiner
language : en
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Release Date : 1998
Art As Spiritual Activity written by Rudolf Steiner and has been published by SteinerBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
This book introduces a new way for thinking about, creating, and viewing art. Rudolf Steiner saw his task as the renewal of the lost unity of science, the arts, and religion; thus, he created a new, cognitive scientific and religious art in anthroposophy. The implications of his act --recognized by such diverse artists as Wassily Kandinsky and Joseph Beuys --are only now coming fully to light. In his thorough introduction of more than a hundred pages, Michael Howard takes readers through these thought-provoking chapters: Is Art Dead? To Muse or Amuse Artistic Activity As Spiritual Activity The Representative of Humanity Beauty, Creativity, and Metamorphosis New Directions in Art Lectures include: The Aesthetics of Goethe's Worldview The Spiritual Being of Art Buildings Will Speak The Sense Organs and Aesthetic Experience The Two Sources of Art The Building at Dornach The Supersensible Origin of the Arts Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Christ, Ahriman, and Lucifer Plus a bibliography and index
Beginning Again
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Author : Deborah J. Haynes
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-09-26
Beginning Again written by Deborah J. Haynes and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-26 with Religion categories.
What does it mean to become and work as an artist today? What unique challenges do artists face in the twenty-first century, and what skills are required to overcome them? How might art become an expression of spiritual life? In addressing these and other questions, Deborah J. Haynes offers reflections that range from the practical to the deeply philosophical. She explores challenging ideas: impermanence, suffering, and the inevitability of death; the virtues of generosity, kindness, and compassion; and more abstract concepts such as negative capability, groundlessness, and wisdom. Individual chapters are framed by personal stories and images from the artist’s work. Beginning Again: Reflections on Art as Spiritual Practice is a personal statement, born from the author’s experience as an artist, writer, teacher, and Buddhist practitioner. Haynes writes for artists—and for all exploring the relationship of their creativity to the inner life. For Haynes, making and looking at art can be a form of meditation and prayer, a space for solitude, silence, and living in the present.
Mud Art Spirit
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Author : Mari Snorri
language : en
Publisher: River Lane Press
Release Date : 2017-11-28
Mud Art Spirit written by Mari Snorri and has been published by River Lane Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-28 with categories.
Mud, art, and spirit¿the interrelationship of physical reality, creativity, and spirituality¿can, and must, be integrated. In these pages, the authors bring their unique perspective as both working artists and philosophers to argue a fresh way to think about and relate to the divine. The idea of God as a creative artist, especially as a clay potter, serves to focus many traditional as well as more insightful conceptions of divinity in relation to the world. Here, the relationship is presented as one of symbiotic interrelationality rather than hierarchical and unilateral control. With a skillful interweaving of three concepts¿¿¿mud, art, and spirit¿¿¿the authors propose a grounded spirituality and embodied creativity centered in the theological and bilibcal idea of incarnation. Their goal is to bring these concepts into every day life: to bring spiritual reality (spirit) into practical experience (mud) mediated by creative activity (art).
Concerning The Spiritual In Art
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Author : Wassily Kandinsky
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-04-20
Concerning The Spiritual In Art written by Wassily Kandinsky and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-20 with Art categories.
Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.
Art As Seen In The Light Of Mystery Wisdom
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Author : Rudolf Steiner
language : en
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Release Date : 2013-04-03
Art As Seen In The Light Of Mystery Wisdom written by Rudolf Steiner and has been published by Rudolf Steiner Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-03 with Art categories.
Within the Mystery cultures of ancient history, art, science and religion formed a unity that offered direction and spiritual nourishment to the broader society. Today, art, science and religion can again be reunited. However, as Marie Steiner indicates in her introduction to these lectures, these aspects of our culture need rejuvenation through fresh spiritual understanding and knowledge. Art cannot be renewed through compromise, but only by returning to the spiritual foundations of life. As she says: "The remedy lies in unlocking the wisdom of the Mysteries and presenting it to humanity in a form adapted to contemporary needs." In these wide-ranging lectures, Rudolf Steiner offers spiritual insight for the modern day into a revitalised world of the arts. His themes include: the relation of art to technology, the moral experience of the worlds of colour and music, the legendary Norwegian Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson, and the relationship between the various arts of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, poetry, eurythmy and the human being.
Drawing As A Sacred Activity
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Author : Heather C Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-11-02
Drawing As A Sacred Activity written by Heather C Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-02 with categories.
"Heather Williams has written a comprehensive guide to the three doorways into art-making: seeing, feeling, intuiting. She brings a deep spiritual sensibility and years of work as a teacher using art for healing. The activities presented guide the reader into the secret of all art: personal, hands-on experience. Join Heather on the journey into your Creative Self. Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D., A.T.R., author of Living with Feeling "Mystics and artists throughout time have appreciated how practical and spiritual worlds meet and shape one another through the act of drawing - Spirit is given tangible and particular forms as the material world is simultaneously inspirited by the perceptions and intimate gestures of a person. Let your hand lead the way and reveal sacred realms through the imagery and feelings that will emerge when you commit yourself to the practice of drawing - using this wisely crafted book as a spiritual and artistic guide." Shaun McNiff, author of Art as Medicine and Trust the Process. "Heather Williams guides her readers into the world of line and shadow, inner and outer landscape, and every corner of the natural world and the human heart, providing exercises and a helping hand to anyone with a hunger to draw and, more importantly, to feel and to see." Eric Maisel, Ph.D., author of Fearless Creating and The Van Gogh Blues While technology brings extraordinary promise - it also brings extraordinary risk. Exposure to unrestrained levels of digital technology can have serious long term consequences, impacting how people think, feel, and act. It is very important today for us each to consciously take charge of our attention. Attention is our most valuable asset. Step away from the computer! Connect with nature and draw out your uniquely creative point of view. BENEFITS YOU WILL GAIN FROM THIS BOOK: You will develop greater hand-eye coordination. You will center yourself using both the left and right hemispheres You will see in a new way as you connect with nature and with your Creative Inner Being.
The Spiritual Ground Of Education
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Author : Rudolf Steiner
language : en
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Release Date : 2004-12
The Spiritual Ground Of Education written by Rudolf Steiner and has been published by SteinerBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12 with Education categories.
"Through the introduction by Michael Howard and Steiner's ten lectures, this volume offers an account of the sources and purposes of art, as well as a particularly helpful approach to art as a spiritual practice. So, far from being dated, Steiner's account of art and its relation to spiritual experience is at least contemporary and probably ahead of its time. As this book ably shows, Steiner's insights concerning art, particularly when approached and practiced as a spiritual activity, might be exactly what art, artists, and contemporary culture urgently need." --Robert McDermott (from the foreword) Seeing his task as the renewal of the lost unity of science, art, and religion, Rudolf Steiner created in the worldview he called Anthroposophy a new, cognitive scientific and religious art, the implications of which--recognized by such divergent artists as Wassily Kandinsky and Joseph Beuys--are only now becoming fully apparent. Art as Spiritual Activity includes a comprehensive, thought-provoking introduction of more than a hundred pages by Michael Howard, who writes: "The most fundamental issue for arts today...is the spiritual foundation of arts.... Steiner demonstrates that our individual creative activity is not solely a personal affair. Our creations do not originate out of nowhere, nor solely out of ourselves, but from an objective world of spirit with which we are intimately related in the depths of our being. He shows that our creations have significance beyond ourselves and beyond the recognition they receive: works of art are vehicles of spiritual qualities. In bringing these spiritual qualities into the sphere of human life, the artist becomes responsible for the spiritual effects the work of art has on the artist, other people, and ultimately on human evolution." Art as Spiritual Activity introduces a new way of thinking about, looking at, and creating art.
Art Is A Way Of Knowing
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Author : Pat B. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 1995-04-11
Art Is A Way Of Knowing written by Pat B. Allen and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-11 with Self-Help categories.
An expert in art therapy offers this “wonderful” guide “for anyone, artistic or not, who is interested in using art to know more about himself or herself” (Library Journal) Making art—giving form to the images that arise in our mind's eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives—is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom. This book offers encouragement for everyone to explore art-making in this spirit of self-discovery—plus practical instructions on material, methods, and activities, such as ways to: • Discover a personal myth or story • Recognize patterns and themes in one's life • Identify and release painful memories • Combine journaling and image making • Practice the ancient skill of active imagination • Connect with others through sharing one's art works Interwoven with this guidance is the intimate story of the author's own journey as a student, art therapist, teacher, wife, mother, and artist—and, most of all, as a woman who discovered a profound and healing connection with her soul through making art.
Awakening The Creative Spirit
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Author : Christine Valters Paintner
language : en
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2010-02
Awakening The Creative Spirit written by Christine Valters Paintner and has been published by Church Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02 with Religion categories.
The resource is designed to help spiritual directors and others use expressive arts in the context of spiritual direction. It is the latest book in the unique SDI series, designed for professional spiritual directors, but also useful for clergy, therapists, and Christian formation specialists. The Spiritual Directors International Series – This book is part of a special series produced by Morehouse Publishing in cooperation with Spiritual Directors International (SDI), a global network of some 6,000 spiritual directors and members.
Spirit Taking Form
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Author : Nancy J. Azara
language : en
Publisher: Red Wheel
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Spirit Taking Form written by Nancy J. Azara and has been published by Red Wheel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Self-Help categories.
"I want to share with you what I find when I make art and to guide you to find your own way there." Anyone can make art. Finding one's spiritual center can come of making art. Making art can come of finding one's spiritual center. Nancy Azara has been teaching the making of art, art-making as a spiritual practice, and other spiritual practices for thirty-five years. She has developed a system that combines her lifelong spiritual practice with techniques designed to help anyone get and stay in touch with their own inner artistic souls. Spirit Taking Form is a practical book. It offers lists of materials to work with and exercises and meditation techniques to help everyone bring out their inner voice. It includes specific meditations for healing the inner critic, cultivating imagination, and finding one's artistic heart. Its meditations and exercises can be done many times, and each time they can bring the reader new and richer experiences and deeper insights. Throughout the book Azara shares her own story and the inspirations that have made her a successful artist. Using an old Sicilian folk tale taught to her by her grandfather, she has always sought to look at life with one eye open out to the world and the other closed, or turned inward. It is this skill more than any other that she seeks to engender in the reader through exercises such as "The Visual Diary." Learning and teaching about art from a place of spirit calls us to a challenge, a challenge to look at something very familiar, yet distant and remote. Spirit Taking Form offers insight into artistic expression and how it can be applied to life as a catalyst for growth, change, and expression.