Spiritual Paintings

Zen Audio

2010-03-09T15:07:00.002+01:00

You can find nice speeches by Michael Eido Luetchford in English with Czech translation at http://dogensangha.cz/booklet.htm :-)

Dragon-Lion-Hero

2010-03-04T22:12:00.000+01:00

Original acrylic painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "Dragon-Lion-Hero" represents a house-head of enamoured author, in which a monk practices zazen, distracting himself from his own drawing of a beloved woman, who is both a dragon and a lion.

Who is always listening how the sweet pears ring?

2010-03-04T21:56:00.000+01:00

Original watercolor painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "Who is always listening how the sweet pears ring?" is a wider koan version representing meditation experience when suddenly both inner and out-of-head localization of sound appeared and an object for observation was also listening aparatus inside the head of observer.

Oheňíhit

2010-03-04T21:41:00.000+01:00

Original natural painting by painter Jan Karpíšek titled "Oheňíhit" (same as the authors' freegan exhibition in Olomouc) was made as an artificial dried-up pool at Jans' permaculture garden, it was only setup and the weather made the painting alone. The big center, Sun.

Double Pool

2010-03-04T21:36:00.000+01:00

Original natural painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "Double Pool" was made as an artificial dried-up double pool at authors' permaculture garden, it was only setup and the weather made the painting itself. Folded canvas, symetric but different halves. The longer you look the more you see.

Suddenly I localized a heard sound outside as well as inside my head

2010-03-04T21:15:00.001+01:00

Original natural painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "Suddenly I localized a heard sound outside as well as inside my head" was made of aluminium caps (recycling as a freegan principle) and natural pigment in home-made oil colour. Based on meditation experience of sound inside and outside the head localization. The inner ear bones? Where is the Self?

The Little Tea

2009-11-30T12:13:00.003+01:00

Original linear painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "The Little Tea" was created in Berlin in September 2009 exhibition in F.I.T., a former gas station already converted on the art side. A big muscled man drinking tea from a tiny cup is a funny metaphor of disproportion or power of natural chemicals?

Über Skizzen

2009-11-30T12:08:00.004+01:00

Original freestyle painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "Über Skizzen" was created while Tobias Roth has been reading his essay at the Betakontext exhibition in Berlin F.I.T. of Dida Zende, a former gas station already converted on the art side, in September 2009. Painting based on listening, free associations in foreign language, which Karpíšek knows only partly and he understood only about a tenth.

Berlin Bear

2009-11-30T11:53:00.004+01:00

Original common painting by painter Jan Karpíšek and Michal Gogora "Berlin Bear" was created on the Betakontext exhibition in Berlin during September 2009 in F.I.T. of Dida Zende, a former gas station already converted on the art side. A totemic armorial animal of the german capital city or just only a man with bear's head acts in a strange erotic scene with an excited woman.

Oheňíhit - Freegan art of time paintings?

2009-09-29T14:04:00.002+01:00

The Cipher of The Web

2009-09-11T15:09:00.004+01:00

Original painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "The Cipher of The Web" shows a silhouette of pure enlightened buddha having rest, who cut off all thinking and had an insight in tissue of web of the world. Fish without head, sun reflections on the water-table inside and outside of mind...

I Am Always Here

2009-07-09T22:31:00.002+01:00

Original painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "I Am Always Here" represents a sleeping hairless man in mountains by the sea, surrounded with radishes, some woman's dark hair creeps by his legs, a fruit tree with ripening plums grows and a sickle lies close to his hand. A small bird is singing above his head and a boat with anchored fishing rod is harboured down the hill. The painting symbolizes Being out of wakefulness and normal consciousness, Buddha nature, not craving and no-thinking, sleep of Buddha...

In the Parquet

2009-07-09T22:26:00.001+01:00

Original oil painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "In the Parquet" is just a visual note on watching the floor recently.

Skoda of the Indians

2009-04-26T22:06:00.003+01:00

Original painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "Škoda of the Indians" (A Pity for the Indians) was created for the Landfillart.org project of Ken Marquis (Pennsylvania), artistic recycling the old metal hubcaps. The red Indian hunter on the painting wants to kill a deer but his arrow is really poor and anyway, the whole world is holden by Mara, the Lord of Death...

Winter Mandala

2009-04-26T22:01:00.003+01:00

Karpíšek's "Winter Mandala" has been left on the artist's garden for the whole winter to be finished by natural process of snowing, raining, melting, winding etc. The abstract concentric circles with a strange spot in the middle could be understood as a metaphor of the Self.

Phil Maggi - Blue FIelds in Paramount CD

2009-03-21T21:13:00.003+01:00

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Denisa Krausova

2009-03-21T14:23:00.004+01:00

In this case I don't want to speculate if the author's paintings are "spiritual" or not. Anyway artworks by Denisa Krausová (1981) are just excellent and getting better! No wonder that Denisa is receiving more and more public attention recently. After an exhibition with Lucie Ferliková in Divus Unit 30 in London there will be her one woman show in a prestigious gallery Ad Astra soon (opening on March 25th). Visit Denisa's websites: www.denisakrausova.net

Thangka Gallery

2009-03-07T13:02:00.006+01:00

I've met my friend Pavel yesterday. He had a great news. :)
Pavel bought a very nice thangka from a buddhist monk Akka from Nepal who visited Brno recently.
See websites of him and his colleagues: www.thangkagallery.com
I like very much their charity project: www.dcwcnepal.org
The thangkas reminded me my diploma thesis which includes interpretation of the Wheel of Life. Today I will paint that on paper and place it on the wall above my painting easel. I believe it will bring more peace to the kitchen corner where I create my art.

Petr Pastrňák

2009-03-06T07:04:00.003+01:00

Czech painter and visual artist Petr Pastrňák (1962) creates original paintings also considered as spiritual. Petr is concerned with meditation as well. Art is for him another way of exploring the inner space. His works are mainly abstract meditations as well as figurative. Visit his websites www.petrpastrnak.cz

The Lady (Svitava)

2009-02-11T12:34:00.003+01:00

Karpíšek's ecological painting "The Lady" (Svitava) created with the natural clays only shows a goddess with bewitched eyeview and long curly red hair standing in the meadow. She represents the Svitava river, our Lady of calm woods in Moravian karst. The natural pigments are not fixed by any medium.

Hagazussa

2009-02-11T12:16:00.001+01:00

Karpíšek's "Hagazussa" (One Who Sits on the Hedge) shows a witch on the fence between two worlds, surrounded with a fog.

The Roof of the Field

2009-02-11T12:10:00.003+01:00

Karpíšek painted "The Roof of the Field" with the natural pigments (clays) from the Rudice village in Moravian karst and fixed it with linen oil and the damar resin afterwards. It shows the relevancy of soil and roof (As above, so below).

IBM carrots

2009-02-11T12:01:00.003+01:00

Karpíšek's "IBM carrots" is a contemporary satirical interpretation of "The Angelus" by Jean-Francois Millet showing the today world's dependency on IT specialists. Everything in our civilisation disconnected from nature including the machines in agriculture and workers using the cell phones do need computers.

Virtual tour of Punkwa art group exhibition "Pack of Bats" in the Gallery of the city Blansko

2009-02-09T14:47:00.001+01:00

Karpisek changed the team

2009-01-20T07:09:00.003+01:00

Punkwa art group lost two other members after one week living and painting in the Gallery of the city Blansko. Lukáš Karbus and Jan Karpíšek left the group because of too different opinions on some important topics and they arranged together a new formation also called by the Moravian river - Svitava. Punkva river joins Svitava river behind Blansko. "Svit" means "shine" in Czech.