I´m working hard with the framing of my pictures, cutting passepartouts, with basic instrumentation - the blade - to tell the saga of the chalice, inspired by the book by Riane Eisler The Chalice & The Blade - our history, our future.
In Old Europa there were the chalice, the rython, the bringer, the bolk, the horn, water to a thirsty,. There were the holder of life givning water, the holder of creativity and she was the Goddess - Nature.
On every object and tool in daily life of the Old Europeans there were art work engraved or painted - chevrons, triangles, zigzag meanders, fusing into pictures of animals and antropomorphic figurines.
Prepottery civilisations had clay and granite, tusk and bone, requiering an abundance of time and skill to be crafted and the archeologists are finding more and more of theese endurable artefacts and the art from the soulutréans, the magdalenians and old europeans are stunningly realistic, with an artististic optics, respecting the human eye and vision itself - thus respecting the “motif” - a buffalo, a horse, a mammuth or a wholly rinoceros, clearly distinquishable from all other species. Depending on the position of the viewer, the pictures slightly changes and in the cave art the pictures, illuminated by torches and oil lamps, which renders the carvings and brush strokes of the cave walls 3D-effects and eventually the observer brings life to the art of the old masters.
Its a privilige to be able to travel the Internet and look at rock carvings all over the planet, cave art and archeolgogical sites - we are heading straight into the ideographics of the future - videos, ikons, the digital menues, avatars expressing more than words - explaining the world in blue prints, for fast learning.
The future of vision and art is possible to see in art from Old Europe. And the eye-hand-coordination of the old artists were exquisite and their visions are pure visual reason.
The owls eyes was respected and adored by the artists of Old Europe, and the eye of the eagle too, and when I chose my motifs I use my own eyes, and my own hands to paint my take on nature and the Goddess.
On “bildstenen” from Smiss, Gotland, ”The Snake Goddess”, is depicted on a axe shaped stone - in an open birthgiving position, holding up two snakes. Above her is the symbolic triangle of water birds.
In the exhibition at Langska Huset, the water color paintings from Fårö, with the marine motifs are mixed with portraits of the Goddess, from Smiss, from Sesklo, from Sé, from Kato leapetrea, Cucuteni and Moravany. I have also included portraits of modern Goddesses of music and art, Eivør Pålsdottir and Lettice Rowbotham.
Back to work, the framing of it.
Have a nice day,
Tomas Brusell
