![]() ![]() The result is a wild amalgam of anatomical detail, brilliant, optically reinforced colors (lots of side-by side complementary colors for intensity), and the division of space into tessellations of op-art like patterns, visionary images like eyes and faces or sweeping radiant lines and lightning-like strokes of color suggestive of energy fields.įigures are portrayed this way while praying, meditating, gazing at the stars, copulating, giving birth or even painting pictures. His intricate, brightly colored images often portray the human form as if the skin were transparent, showing the glowing lattices of the nervous and veinous system lying beneath, and sometimes the musculature, viscera or skeleton, as if trying to suggest a connection between our inner physical selves and our spiritual selves, and, through them, a connection to the cosmos as a whole in a visionary, spiritual sense. Grey’s art has been called, visionary, spiritual and “psychedelic”, though he seems to prefer “transpersonal”. Alex Grey has taken influences from some of those traditional art forms, including tantric art, mandalas, thangkas and other sources of imagery from India, China, Japan and Indonesia, and combined them with a very Western representation of the human body in anatomical detail, to suggest the intersection of the natural and spiritual worlds. ![]() There is a history of visionary or mystical devotional art, perhaps more prominently in Aisian cultures than in the West. ![]()
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