Spirit and Art by Van James

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By Van James

“As an paintings pupil within the overdue sixties, I bear in mind how painfully dry and highbrow my artwork background periods have been. i assumed to myself, or really felt to myself, ‘There needs to be anything more’” (Van James). Artist Van James deals that whatever extra. it is a richly readable and lavishly illustrated textual content that unearths how, at each degree, human recognition has developed during the medium of paintings. It makes the case for a hidden movement that has placed forth artwork works and artwork hobbies all through heritage, in an ongoing seen revelation of invisible non secular currents. paintings, initially part of the key secret cults of the traditional international, has develop into an expression of the person inventive instinct. At each degree, Albert Einstein’s remark applies: “The most pretty factor we will adventure is the mysterious. it's the resource of all real paintings and science.”

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