mysticism

Examples of mysticism in the following topics:

• The Bhakti Movement

  • There was no grouping of the mystics into Shaiva and Vaishnava devotees as in the south.
  • The movement was spontaneous and the mystics had their own versions of devotional expression.
  • Ramananda, Ravidas, Srimanta Sankardeva, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Vallabhacharya, Surdas, Meera Bai, Kabir, Tulsidas, Namdev, Dnyaneshwar, Tukaram and other mystics spearheaded the Bhakti movement in the north while Annamacharya, Bhadrachala Ramadas, and Tyagaraja among others propagated Bhakti in the south.

• Painting

  • Other groups of artists expressed feelings that verged on the mystical, many largely abandoning classical drawing and proportions.

• Flemish Textiles of the Northern Renaissance

  • One tapestry, The Mystic Capture of the Unicorn, survives only in two fragments.

• Spanish Painting in the Baroque Period

  • Spanish art, particularly that of Morales, contained a strong mark of mysticism and religion that was encouraged by the Counter-Reformation and the patronage of Spain's strongly Catholic monarchs and aristocracy.
  • The mysticism of Zurbarán's work—influenced by Saint Theresa of Avila—became a hallmark of Spanish art in later generations.

• Painting and Other Forms of Art

  • South German wood sculpture was important in developing new subjects that reflected the intensely emotional devotional life encouraged by movements in late medieval Catholicism such as German mysticism.

• Soviet Constructivism

  • After deposing its first chairman, Wassily Kandinsky, for his "mysticism," The First Working Group of Constructivists (including Liubov Popova, Alexander Vesnin, Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, and the theorists Alexei Gan, Boris Arvatov, and Osip Brik) would develop a definition of Constructivism as the combination of faktura – the particular material properties of an object – and tektonika, its spatial presence.

• Canadian Painting in the 20th Century

  • Both artists viewed abstract art as a way to explore symbolism and mysticism as an integrated part of their personal spirituality.

• Fang and Kota

  • The Kota are noted for their copper and brass reliquary guardian figures , which are part of a powerful religious and mystical order known as Bwete.

• Paleolithic Cave Paintings

  • Some anthropologists and art historians also theorize that the paintings could be an account of past hunting success, or they could represent a mystical ritual to improve future hunting endeavors.

• Geometric Symbolism

  • According to the psychologist David Fontana, its symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively deeper levels of the unconscious, ultimately assisting the meditator to experience a mystical sense of oneness with the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises. "