Video: Hypnotic drawings inspired by sacred mandalas
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Mandala - a sacred symbol traditionally used in Buddhist and Hindu religious practices. At the same time, it is so "in demand" in world culture that many contemporary artists often turn to creating new interpretations of it. A striking example is "Meditative" paintings by Amy Cheng (Amy Cheng), an artist from New York.
There are a lot of options for creating mandalas: they can be both two-dimensional and three-dimensional. Most often, monks create these ritual paintings from colored sand and marble chips, but there are other ways. On the site Kulturologiya. RF we told our readers about all kinds of "author's" mandalas created from cones, leaves and vegetables, flowers, apples and even … women's underwear! They also remembered the artist Diana Ferguson, who, like Amy Cheng, paints sacred paintings with paints.
Amy Cheng draws pictures, which certainly have a hypnotic effect, on paper with oil paints, sometimes using wax. Each drawing is a kaleidoscopic image, a spiraling geometric pattern that resembles a stained glass window. The artist uses paints of warm shades, making the images translucent, light, as if emitting light. Symmetrical compositions create a deceptive effect of movement: if you look at a painting for a long time, you can easily succumb to visual deception.
Delightful images symbolize endless movement, a path towards something new and unknown. Mandalas are used for meditation, self-discovery, and Amy Cheng's images are quite suitable for their purpose. The artist says that she deliberately "enclosed" her "round" images in a square "frame", this formal technique gave her the opportunity to draw the viewer's attention to the center of the image. “My paintings show something sacred, the boundless value of life, they call the viewer to unity with the Universe,” Amy Cheng commented on her project.
Now amazing mandalas are presented at the collective exhibition of women's creativity in the New York gallery of contemporary art "Elisa Contemporary Art". You can admire them until April 12, 2014.
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