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La Planéte Sauvage (1973)

I'll start with this film because it shows a society where esoteric practices such as astral projection and deep-trance meditation are common knowledge and used for recreation, entertainment, and politics. The real power of this film is in it's visual style which gives off an aged, illustrative appearance that creates a surreal and visceral atmosphere. Pay attention to the subtle messages about spiritual practice and conflict in this animation.

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Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957)

The artwork of Frantisek Kupka follows roughly the same process of change from realism to abstract expressionism that many artists underwent around the turn of the century, with the exception that his work was heavily rooted in his practice of Theosophy and interest in esoteric symbolism and mythos. Here are a few of his paintings where you can see that:

The Black Idol (Resistance) (1903)

I see this painting as a manifestation of the feelings you encounter when working with great entities, there is a foreboding and dark atmosphere that is used to intimidate, but also the intrigue of working with mysticism and magic.

Babylon (1906)

A ritual procession towards the Hanging Gardens of Babylon is depicted with emphasis on ocean, lighting, and atmosphere.

Lines Areas Depth lll (1913-23)

Later in Kupka's journey he starts to experiment with color evocation and perception. In this painting you start to see his work with energy that the violets and light blues communicate along with the fractal repetitions.

Neal Stephenson (1992)

This novel is an interesting look into the overlap between entertainment, technology, history, and politics all interlinked with neurology. One theme that his writing made me reflect on is the importance of physical perception vs processed or imagined perception. In game worlds this line becomes blurry because a lot of the action is happening through your visual mind and not your physical sensations. The sumerian mythology is also a very appropriate way to frame our technological advances, the more technology alters our perception, the more spiritual concepts make sense.

An interesting phenomena that I've noticed is the ability of video games to produce a place thought-form in the subconscious. When you're immersed in a game, particularly open-world games it projects places into your head and memory. I think we're only at a fraction of the potential of this medium right now when it comes to creative power. This is the first medium where you can walk around and effect controlled change on an imagined place. I think once we are able to produce convincing reality we can understand a lot more about the one we're living in on a spiritual level.

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>>72431

You and I understand the overlap of the magician's methods and the artist's methods. I can definitely appreciate your decision to be more involved in creation. I love studying art history, especially the symbolist painters of the early 20th century and one subject you see being brought up a lot is esoteric phenomena such as dreams, visions, myths. Viewers don't realize it's all related, our only mode of existence is present and everything else is a dream, including the past.

>>72516

It's great that we share that understanding. I look mainly to the Symbolists in terms of artistic guidance, along of course with dream imagery, imagination, Jungian symbols, etc. for the raw inspiration. I have a particular fondness for Klimt. Are you an artist yourself?

Also, though I have a lot of confidence in my success, I would appreciate anyone's blessings (of any sort) to further strengthen my endeavors.

>>72527

I'm a fan of Klimt as well. I think you would like the work of illustrator, Alfred Kubin. I do a lot of work in watercolor and ink but I don't give as much time to it as I would like. I can't give you a blessing but I will say that the best artists have their method's down which frees them to explore subject matter and composition to the fullest. You have to prioritize method over formula. Look at alchemist methods and see if you can make any connections between that and producing artwork.

>>72541

Also don't ignore the impacts of contemporary subject matter and media. Today an experiential medium like an app or a game might make more of an impact in terms of idea. With pure visual ideas, illustrations, animations, and paintings are still the most effective though. Consider the ways advertisers subliminally sell a product before telling us to buy it. Space should be sold by sculpture or 3d rendering, story should be sold via illustration, time via animation, experience via game. Figure out what parts of the mind you want to appeal to.

>>72543

What kind of visuals, feelings, ideas do you want to work with in your art?