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Satvat to Mark Tobey

Mark Tobey - Red's passing - 1968

Speaking of Mark Tobey, I have the impression to talk about a close friend, both are similar, at root, our research artistic and existential. Somehow I find that my kaleidoscopic forms have flourished from the same pictorial space that he had meditated calligrapher. While this may not be obvious at first glance, the phrasing of the soul in expansion is the same, and embodies similar spiritual insights, which is why I find so much resonance in his paintings and connections, for example with what I experienced in theme of "universal web".

artistic quest of Mark Tobey was born from an experience of spontaneous non-mind. It was 1918 and had just spread the news of the end of a war world, and he took to the streets and joined the cheering crowd. The focus of celebration and collective consciousness led her to a climax in conjunction with the All, blurring the walls of perception with which the mind defines the limited ego. For the whole day he remained in a state of ecstatic identification with the occurrence, without imposing filters alienating the rational consciousness. It was a state of mystical rapture, which he undertook to revive in his subsequent work as an artist. In fact, he designed the art as the possibility of expanding awareness, and to achieve dug deeply into himself, going too brave on trails that lead him to China and Japan, where he practiced meditation and the pictorial art of Taoism and Zen. In the East, however, did not seek the illusory dream of otherness, but the way to become more authentically themselves, and drew out a vibrant calligraphic impulse "that he celebrated with his" white writings. " Paul Klee once said that in Tobey's painting we are witnessing the genesis of writing ", and in fact his paintings are spiritual arenas of self-consciousness of the sign. Artist

high profile, however, remained at the edge of the booming American painting of the period. Tobey was "balanced" and meditative, and at all "macho American" (even socially despised for his homosexuality), and also his appreciation of the culture of the Japanese enemy "was suspected, all this for some time alienated sympathy from critics and the public. Even after the highest international honors, he was a little 'secluded, but very much appreciated in amateur circuits, just to see how little has been published about his work. Nevertheless, he inspired many, some of whom, like Pollock, they proudly refused. His teaching is extremely valuable, especially because the artist intends to bring the soul out of prison painful ego, free to dance with the impersonal and ecstatic arias of Inspiration, a prophecy that contemporary art has absolutely need to check to be spiritually regenerated.