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The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful
are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the
appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.

Sol LeWitt

John Latham, Full Stop, 1961, Acrylic on canvas

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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft

Henry Matisse


Robert Mangold, Ring Image K, 2010

Alchemical manuscripts - Cabala

When you have water, that is Mercury of the Air,
that is of the Stone and Air of Fire, that is Spirit
of Mercury and fire that is Mercury of the Earth,
that is of Luna, then you shall have the Art fully.

Aristotle

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Now, however long a time may pass, according to the eternal laws governing
the combinations of this eternal play of repetition, all configurations
which have previously existed on this earth must yet meet, attract,
repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again

Heinrich Heine



Jasper Johns, White Target, 1957



Jannis Kounellis, no title, 1999 (Etching on paper)

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The World is Bound With Secret Knots - Athanasius Kicher

Laura Splan, machine embroidered lace based on the influenza virus



Barbara Mungenast, Kreis #2, 2006



Sheila Gallagher, Sea Urchin Smoke Print, 2009

Artist - Hilma af Klint (1862-1944)

I found this artist while looking for new pictures for the Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry series. Hilma af Klint was a swedish artist who was born in 1862 and died in 1944. She is concidered one of the first abstract painters together with Mondrian, Malevich and Kandinsky. I immediately liked the strong colors and her use of forms. They remind me a lot of alchemistic illustrations.

If you want to read more about Hilma af Klint, I recommend this article , from Sally O’Reilly in frieze.

frieze has a whole issue from the end of last year about the connection between art and spirituality, which you can find here. It contains another very interesting article that mentions her work, titled Soul Searching - The complex relationship between science and the spirit – and how to represent it written by Mark Pilkington

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Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts

Mary Judge, Oculus Series

Siobhan Liddell, Untitled, 2009



Max Ernst, Birth of a Galaxy, 1969

Ruth Asawa

"When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth." -- Ruth Asawa

Ruth Asawa, Star (galvanized wire), 1960

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Time is the substance from which I am made.
Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river;
it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger;
it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges

Laura Battle, Time Piece



Günther Uecker

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Trichodina pediculus



Burning Man 2010


Somewhere in Saudi Arabia (via Google Earth)

Land Artist Jim Denevan on the Ice

In Pursuit of the Impermanent

I've posted about Jim Denevan and his "Sand" Art in May (see here). Today I found out that in this spring he also "created a large scale artwork on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, Siberia. The spiral of circles, along a fibonacci curve, grow from an origin of 18" to several miles in diameter."

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Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern
for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth
Marston Morse

Damien Hirst, Psalm Print: Exaudi, Domine (diamond dust), 2009



The Hermaphrodite



Denis Maurice, Scale Model for the Cupola of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Sand Art by Jim Denevan

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Overcoming the Infinite

Tiny amoeba shell (picture from National Geographic Magazine)

Katina Kamatson, From Nine Flowers Series



Kirra Jamison, Not even i can save you

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Infinity Visualized

 Arranged Diatom

Erwin Keustermans


 Bacteria art