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nobrashfestivity · 6 months

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Georgiana Houghton

Flower of Samuel Warrand, 1862.

Samuel Warrand was Georgiana Houghton’s deceased uncle and her mother’s brother. Houghton claimed the drawing had been guided by the spirit of Henry Lenny, who had been a deaf and mute artist in life. Lenny also dictated a long letter explaining the drawing.

#Georgiana Houghton #automatic drawing #spirit art #visionary art #female artists

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banji-effect · 3 months

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I went to the Judy Chicago retrospective at the New Museum today and really loved the way she/the curators included a kind of mini overview of works by female geniuses throughout history as part of it. These are just a few--I was so excited to see a piece by Unica Zürn in person!

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Emma Kunz, Work No. 003, no date (circa 1940) Ithell Colquhoun, Alcove, 1946 Unica Zürn, La Serpenta, 1957 Georgiana Houghton, The Spiritual Crown of Annie Mary Howitt Watts, 1867 Hilma af Klint, Group IX/UW, The Dove, no. 2, 1915

#not least because the whole thing was a christine de pizan reference!#emma kunz #ithell colquhoun #unica zürn #georgiana houghton #hilma af klint #<3

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luminousabstraction · 2 months

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“The Substantiality of Spirit”: Georgiana Houghton’s Pictures from the Other Side – The Public Domain Review

#art #spiritualism #georgiana houghton

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lilithsaintcrow · 2 months

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"… their wild eddies of colour and line were unlike anything the public had seen before — nor would see again until the rise of abstract art decades later.”

#georgiana houghton #art #spiritualism

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batcaveofmodernart · 1 year

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Flower of Catherine Emily Stringer by Georgiana Houghton, 1866. Watercolour on paper.

#abstract art #painting #watercolour #traditional art #non-figurative #Georgiana Houghton

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ourstaturestouchtheskies · 8 months

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hi !! id love a van gogh painting selection that fits my vibe if that's cool— vibe check: my friends describe me as "outspoken, assertive, creative, and passionate" and have said that i remind them of "deer, sunflowers, and the colors dark red or sage green." i'm a poet, a musician, and artist. my favorite painting is the kiss by klimt and my favorite painter is salman toor but i love a lot of genres of art (van gogh is the answer i don't say out loud because i'm worried it's "basic")- really everything!

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hi Cam!

thank you so much for this lovely request! and no worries - in this house (my blog lol) we absolutely adore van gogh even if some people might consider it "basic" 🥰 you're in good company!

based on your vibes and the description from your friends, I leaned toward paintings with bright, bold colors that felt confident and creative. and since the artists/artworks you mentioned all lean in the direction of abstraction and use color to express emotion, I tried to find works with some abstraction and an expressive use of color

if you don't like these paintings or don't feel like they fit your vibe or if you simply want something different, please don't hesitate to let me know and I'm happy to make a new selection for you ☺️

based on your vibes, these are the paintings I would select for you (with images and more info under the cut!)

Sunflower by Gustav Klimt

The Love of God by Georgiana Houghton

Deer in the Forest by Franz Marc

Muse on Pegasus by Odilon Redon

Sunflower by Gustav Klimt (1907-1908)

first, since your friends said you remind them of sunflowers, and since your favorite painting is by Klimt, I simply had to choose his image of a sunflower for you! this piece is calm and peaceful, yet bursting with life and color

The Love of God by Georgiana Houghton (19th century)

to me, this work expresses that sense of creativity and passion that comes with being an artist of any kind. when ideas are really flowing, or when you feel especially inspired, I just feel like this piece captures that feeling? idk though, but it's also a very compelling piece. also, Houghton was a spirit medium and this drawing - according to her own account - is not actually "hers" but is actually a drawing by a spirit, it just used her body and her hand to draw it. Houghton would go into trances and then produce these "spirit drawings." her work is fascinating and very understudied, and I just love the energy and motion and movement in this piece

Deer in the Forest by Franz Marc (1913)

since your friends mentioned deer, deep red, and sage green as things that they associate with you, this work simply had to be on this list since it has all three! like Klimt, it leads toward the abstract while the objects in the piece still retain their legibility. the mixture of straight and curved lines gives a sense of dynamism to the work, which seems to align with a sense of confidence and assertiveness. also, the colors are fun and the deer are really cute - so it's also just a very enjoyable picture!

Muse on Pegasus by Odilon Redon (ca. 1900)

lastly, I knew I needed to include a work by Redon, since many of his pieces really feel like they would fit your vibe. similarly to Klimt, he plays with abstraction and uses color to express emotion, although where Klimt tends to be more geometric, Redon is much more organic in the forms he creates. I selected this piece in particular because it depicts a muse, highlighting the idea of artistic inspiration, with the vibrant splattering of colors all around potentially signifying the act of artistic creation. also, I think it's just a stunning piece

those are the artworks that I think fit your vibe! I hope you enjoyed them, but I'm happy to select new ones for you if you didn't ☺️

thank you again for your wonderful request! 🥰

I hope you have a lovely day!! 🥰☺️

charlotte 💙

#charlotte's art gallery milestone celebration #charlotte speaks #charlotte talks art history #gustav klimt #klimt #georgiana houghton #franz marc #odilon redon

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isobelmccarthy · 1 year

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Georgiana Houghton

#georgiana houghton #spirit drawing #automatic drawing

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djohnhopper · 1 year

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FROM MY PDF LIBRARY: 'Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings and Phenomena Invisible to the Material Eye: Interblended with Personal Narrative' by Georgiana Houghton (1882).

#georgiana houghton #medium #mediumship #spirits #my library

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binsofchaos · 2 years

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In your opinion, what is God?

Sue, Paris, France

Dear Sue,

God is love, which is why I have difficulty relating to the atheist position. Every one of us, even the most spiritually resistant, yearns for love, whether we realise it or not. And this yearning calls us forever toward its objective – that we must love each other. We must love each other. And mostly I think we do – or we live in very close proximity to the idea, because there is barely any distance between a feeling of neutrality toward the world and a crucial love for it, barely any distance at all. All that is required to move from indifference to love is to have our hearts broken. The heart breaks and the world explodes in front of us as a revelation.

There is no problem of evil. There is only a problem of good. Why does a world that is so often cruel, insist on being beautiful, of being good? Why does it take a devastation for the world to reveal its true spiritual nature? I don’t know the answer to this, but I do know there exists a kind of potentiality just beyond trauma. I suspect that trauma is the purifying fire through which we truly encounter the good in the world.

Each day I pray into the silence. I pray to all of them. All of them who are not here. Into this emptiness, I pour all my desire and want and need, and in time this absence becomes potent and alive and activated with a promise. This promise that sits inside the silence is beauty enough. This promise, right now, is amazement enough. This promise, right now, is God enough. This promise, right now, is as much as we can bear.

Love, Nick

#georgiana houghton #the love of god #god #love #nick cave #red hand files #philosphy #spirituality

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drrestlesshate · 13 days

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Georgiana Houghton - The Spiritual Crown of Mrs Oliphant, 1867

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nobrashfestivity · 6 months

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Georgiana Houghton, Eye of the Lord, 1870.

Georgiana Houghton’s only major showing of her drawings in her lifetime was not a success. It was an elaborate affair at the New British Gallery in London organized at her own expense, but of the 155 pieces produced over a ten-year period, she sold only one. Nor was the critical reception particularly warm. According to a recent account, “most of the critics were surprised and alienated, dismissive, malicious, or amused”

Despite this disappointment, today there is a growing recognition that Houghton’s art is quite beautiful and worthy of our attention and that she and not the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) may have been the first to introduce works that were not tied to recognizable objects—abstract art. For decades, art historians have placed the beginning of abstract art at 1910 when Kandinsky produced his first nonrepresentational works, but Houghton’s exhibition of abstract drawings was held forty years earlier in 1871. Furthermore, the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint began painting beautiful abstract works beginning in 1906, four years before Kandinsky. Given the many challenges faced by women artists well into the twentieth century, it seems likely that sexism played a role in the telling of this story.

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#Georgiana Houghton #spiritual art #automatic drawing #female artists

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werkboileddown · 25 days

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