Spiritual painting, Taoist watercolors
Antonio’s spiritual painting takes on more meaning in Taoist watercolours. A set of works that fuse philosophical concepts and meditative experience. Most painted in 2006, but finally a collection of works that covers a more spiritual and long stage in the life of the painter.
They are abstract paintings, with original symbolic and philosophical content by Antonio García Calvente.
They are representations of the structure of the mind from a meditative state. The microcosm is the world of each one, the inner mind, the inner space.
Microcosm
Microcosm is a series of watercolors that describe a journey towards consciousness, where the experience of order and chaos, the union of consciousness and unconsciousness, light and darkness, is captured with subjectivity, harmony and balance.
The vision is focused on the structures of the psyche that C. G. Jung proposes, from a personal transforming process of the «sacrificium intellectus», from which a meditation originates to observe the personal and collective unconscious from the front. The sacrifice of the intellect, Carl Gustav Jung describes it as the essential process to embark on a journey towards the subjective and unconscious world, in order to be able to cross and break mental barriers and achieve illumination of the unconscious.
The personal transforming process of the sacrifice of the intellect and reason leads one to find oneself and get rid of what is withered.
The macrocosm refers to the universe in its entirety, while the microcosm is the part of personal reality, as a reflection of the macrocosm. No human can caress or glimpse the macrocosm, but can dream of it, through the superconscious, or even imagine it when observing the microcosm with full consciousness.
The macrocosm and the microcosm, silence, the primal manifestation, come to intermingle in pure and watery colors that reflect an instantaneous vision. It is not about color or shape here, but about an instant of Taoist experience where, without saying anything, without being anything, one tries to caress the moment. In these paintings he represents the fundamental philosophy of Taoism, which surrenders to the leaf that falls from the tree in autumn and embraces the void.
The following paintings capture the spirit of this search and the encounter with oneself.
These series of Taoist watercolors are a journey towards consciousness, where the experience of order, chaos and the union of consciousness and unconsciousness, light and darkness is captured with subjectivity, color and balance.
Mental structures
The personal transforming process of the sacrifice of the intellect and reason leads one to find oneself and get rid of what is withered.
The macrocosm refers to the universe in its entirety, while the microcosm is the part of personal reality, as a reflection of the macrocosm. No human can caress or glimpse the macrocosm, but can dream of it, through the superconscious, or even imagine it when observing the microcosm with full consciousness.
The macrocosm and the microcosm, silence, the primal manifestation, come to intermingle in pure and watery colors that reflect an instantaneous vision. It is not about color or shape here, but about an instant of Taoist experience where, without saying anything, without being anything, one tries to caress the moment. In these paintings he represents the fundamental philosophy of Taoism, which surrenders to the leaf that falls from the tree in autumn and embraces the void.
The following paintings capture the spirit of this search and the encounter with oneself.
Sacrificium intellectus
The vision in the Sacrificium intellectus watercolors is centered on the archetypal structures that Carl Gustav Jung proposes, in a personal process: “sacrificium intellectus”, from which a meditation originates to observe the personal and collective unconscious head-on.
The sacrifice of the intellect, Carl Gustav Jung describes it as the essential process to embark on a journey towards the subjective and unconscious world, in order to be able to cross and break mental barriers and achieve illumination of the unconscious. The personal transformative process of the sacrifice of the intellect and reason, leads one to find oneself and get rid of the withered
The macrocosm and the microcosm, silence, the primal manifestation, come to intermingle in pure and watery colors that reflect an instantaneous vision. It is not about color or shape here, but about an instant of Taoist experience where, without saying anything, without being anything, one tries to caress the moment. In these paintings he represents the fundamental philosophy of Taoism, which surrenders to the leaf that falls from the tree in autumn and embraces the void.
Circle Paintings
Circle paintings show unity, the first step, the first path to oneself, and the last. It is a door and a space, it is Tao.
The different paintings of a circle represent a simple and clear step, the different colors show aspects of the mind, of the psyche, of reality itself.
Ying Yang Paintings
Ying Yang microcosm paintings show the dual aspect of the mind, of oneself. The masculine and feminine, consciousness and unconsciousness.
They are paintings with two spheres or two shapes intertwining, sometimes of equal size, other times one larger than the other, they indicate conjunctions and changes in one’s own psyche.
Paintings of structures of the mind
The paintings of structures of the mind usually show 4 spheres, representing: the self, the super self, the unconscious and the subconscious. The four aspects or the mandala structure of the psyche. They show their interactions and their conjunctions. They are archetypal Jungian paintings in an abstract, bright, and colorful style.
Spiral paintings
The spiral paintings represent a portal opening in one’s own mind, a moving process, an experience, a realization. They are creative, colorful and magnetic paintings.
Triangle paintings
The triangle paintings are very representative, they show the first phase of a creation, after the conjunction of Ying and Yang.
