#Metaphysical art

[jareckiworld]

Manuel Amado (1938-2019)—That's the Princess [oil on canvas, 2004]

[artsandculture]

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914) 🎨 Giorgio de Chirico 🏛️ Private Collection 📍 Somewhere

[fortunaestalta]

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Carlo Carrà

Solitudine, 1917

Oil on canvas.

[gracefallingart]

Varda

I was going for a metaphysical Ainur look. Let me know which version you like better please!

[thepaintedroom]

Georgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888 - 1978) • Philosopher and Poet • 1916

[irlsimpsons]

Framed Metaphysical Marge canvas print available on Etsy in multiple sizes!

[zero-zoxx-international]

Distress, War and Misery in the Age of Their Technical Reproducibility, ai art 2024 after a prompt from ZZI

[lionofchaeronea]

Rheumatic Pain, Remedios Varo, 1948

[canvasmirror]

Georges de Chirico (Greek/Italian, 1888-1978) • Self-portrait, age 66 • 1954

"One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness."

– Giorgio de Chirico

[jareckiworld]

Manuel Amado (1938-2019) — Here I Am [oil on canvas, 2004]

[senecalui]

Unknown artist, Jar Stand Inscribed with Hieratic Letter to the Dead, First Intermediate Period, Dynasty 11, 2199-1976 BC. Photo courtesy Anna R. Ressman, ISAC Museum.

Speaking to the Dead

In ancient Egypt, the afterlife was a certainty throughout most of the civilization's history. When one died, one's soul went on to another plane, leaving the body behind, and hoped for justification by the gods and an eternal life in paradise. (The World History Encyclopedia). The dead could enjoy food, drinks, and leisure activities in the afterlife. It was also believed they could influence the world of the living. 

The ancient Egyptians communicated with their dead relatives through letters, some of which still survive. Known as Letters to the Dead these texts ask for protection or support and were often presented at the tomb along with food offerings to deceased relatives or ancestors.

There are only a few surviving examples, but the letters are deeply personal. On this jar stand, the writer asks his father and grandmother for a healthy son. It seems the wife is ailed by some affliction, apparently the design of the two maid-servants.

Excerpts attributed to ISAC Museum (Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures)

[fortunaestalta]

[themadartistofthevoid]

Astral Entity

Another attempt to draw a dream/astral entity I've had few profound encounters with in that strange realm when I become lucid. A familiar character, yet shrouded in mystery. Call it imagination, an amalgamation of favorite characters manifesting as my subconscious in the dream-world, or spiritual, my heart always told me it was more than what I could possibly comprehend, and it was both beautiful and terrifying. Regardless of the truth, it is a character very special to me.

[dreams-and-echoes]

The Fountains by Agnes Pelton (c. 1926)

[collectionstilllife]

Antonio Bueno (Italian, 1918-1984) • Still Life • 1948 • Unspecified location