Art visionnaire

"The Spirit uses my hand"... "I'm not just following the orders" these are the statements of these medium painters, visionary or mystic that Michel Ternoy (psychologists and searcher within the frame of his works in psychiatric hospitals) worked. Going from Hildegarde de Bingen to Augustin Lesage, Michel Ternoy tries to show a coherence in grapho-pictorial forms of his own patients and of these artists that were gathered under the name Outsider art.  The questions, fascinating, are numerous.

In this 51-minutes conference, Laurence Caruana analyses the “hieratic” and “primordial” qualities of sacred art. Through Hindu, Buddhist, Egyptian and Greek, Aztecs and Maya traditions, he unveils the concept of secret art common to all arts of history. Observing its slow disappearance in western art, he tries to understand the cause by the arrival of “humanist” qualities. At last, he shows how and why divinatory art, both modern and traditional, incorporate these different “humanists” and “hieratic” styles to be in a long timeless and eternal tradition of an ancestral art.