Artist Talk Magazine: “Why Visionary Art is important for this world” by Mónica Esgueva
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The term ‘Visionary Art’ was coined more than 95 years ago and defined in 1933 by Carl Gustav Jung in his seminal work: Modern Man in Search of a Soul.
Visionary art is art that transcends but includes the physical world and portrays a wider vision of awareness, including expanded modes of knowing the multi-dimensions of being. It is neither a painting of a thing or simply the absolute abstraction to a point where ideas no longer apply. Instead, the best works of this type are a marriage of both inner and outer, the real and the abstract, the surreal, the mystical, and the dreamlike…