| Art
of Imagination, our Definition: A
work of imagination originates when artists express their awareness
of some significant relationship with larger forces or realities
using realism in an effort to reveal their secrets.
It may be called by many names - Fantastic Realism, Surrealism,
Magic Realism, Visionary Art, Inspirational Art - but the Society
has chosen 'Art of Imagination' because it is the least restrictive
and yet most unifying title.
The
members of the Society work independently of one another in
various countries yet their work shows a consistent ethos and,
whether the work is a painting, sculpture, computer-originated
art or 3D object, it speaks a universal language. Though each
work is its own, separate, distinct and original creation there
is a kindred spirit unimpaired by language, time or distance.
Since our inception we have grown to an Internnational Society
with branches all over the world. Our American branch is a registered
US Charity.
Our
Honorary Art Members are Ernst Fuchs, H R Giger, Bob Venosa,
Martina Hoffmann, Alex Grey, Laurie Lipton, Henry Boxer, De
Es, and Ingo. |
Excerpts
from "Rediscovering the Plot" by Michel de Saint Ouen
published in Inscape Summer 2001
"The
artist should be a creator, a transformer linked to the inner
spirit who, with skill and imagination, constructs a creation
which embodies or symbolises a significant human value in
a way which never existed before; to enhance, illuminate and
perpetuate what is best in human values."
"What
is termed 'art of imagination' portrays the dramas which are
the human conditions, exploring and expressing mysteries so
as to make them comprehensible."
"...and
the chief contribution that artists of the imagination can
make is their power to enlarge the range of emotions which
affect all of us, enriching psychic, metaphysical, and spiritual
values, and the appreciation of the beauties of the physical
world which expand delight in existence and enhance self-realisation."
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| "What
we want art to do for us is to stay what is fleeting, and to
enlighten what is incomprehensible, to incorporate the things
that have no measure, and immortalise the things that have no
duration." John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
