Art and Western Esotericism
Coordination: Teresa Lousa (UL)
Art is, like many other areas of knowledge, a vehicle of expression and communication of an inner expertise, being considered by the Gnosis one of the four pillars of knowledge, along with the Science, Philosophy and Religion. We can find, from Antiquity to contemporaneity, in temples, paintings, sculptures, music and also in literature and poetry many testimonials of how artists have shaped in a metaphorical language, intuitions of a science tendentiously dialectic.
More than a mystical route, art is also one of the main cultural expressions of a knowledge that for not being mainstream and for having been pejoratively coined for centuries, cannot have a peaceful or ostentatious disclosure. For this reason the Western esotericism found undeniably in art, by its imagetical and metaphorical nature, and not literal or textual character, an extremely fertile territory for its dissemination and promotion.
Thus, in this Thematic Symposium we would like to receive proposals that explore the relation between art and western esotericism within a dual framework: as revelation and as dissemination of a hermetic knowledge.
Presentations:
- Roger Ferrer Ventosa
- Representaciones artísticas del no dualismo
- Hugo Ferrão
- O Repouso de Diana de Ivo Saliger – Imagem pictórica, vestígio e inscrição esotérica
- M.E. Warlick
- Alchemy and other Esoteric Traditions in Surrealist Art
- Filipe Alberto da Silva
- Neoplatonismo Como Expressão Do Hermetismo: Uma Chave Para Novos Paradigmas
- Luís Campos Ribeiro
- Estrelas, cometas e profecia: a conjugação de arte, ciência e astrologia em Portugal no século XVII
- Júlio Mendes Rodrigo
- O Andrógino Hermético: um “Ser Duplo” através das Artes e das Letras
- Thereza Baumann
- Admiranda Narratio: arte e esoterismo em Theodore de Bry
- Anna Váraljai
- Theosophic Art and Theosophic Aesthetic in Hungary – In Ten Years, in the Aspect of the Theosophical Society Journal (1912-1928)
- Henrik Johnsson
- Occult Art Theories of Scandinavian Modernism
- Jorge Tomás García
- Un tiempo nuevo: representaciones de Aión en la musivaria romana
- Dora Iva Rita
- Uma narrativa inesperada numa pintura do Martírio de S. Sebastião
- Inês Garcia
- Bosch, fantasia e espiritualidade: Uma relação intrínseca
- Salomé Marivoet
- O Espiritual na Pintura Contemporânea. Contributos das obras escritas e artísticas de Kandinsky e Rothko ao estudo do transcendental místico na linguagem pictórica
- Manuela Soares
- A Evolução da Mão
- João Peneda
- Kadinsky e o “Espiritual na arte”
- Teresa Lousa
- Pintar de olhos vendados: de Francisco de Holanda a Juan dela Cruz