ALCHEMY AND VISIONARY ART - A Lecture Presentation by Laurence Caruana

This Seven-part Series of Lectures on ALCHEMY, VISIONS & ART begins with four presentations on ALCHEMY, followed by one presentation on alchemical themes in VISIONARY ART, and finally a two-part presentation on the Alchemy of Traditional ARTISTS’ MATERIALS: ALCHEMY: 1. An Introduction to Alchemy () 2. The Sources of Alchemy () 3. A History of Alchemy () 4. The Alchemy of Colour () VISIONARY ART: 5. Alchemy & Visionary Art () ARTISTS’ MATERIALS: 6. The Alchemy of Painting Mediums & Pigments () BONUS LECTURE: 7. The Gnostic Worldview () Filmed at THE VIENNA ACADEMY OF VISIONARY ART during Laurence Caruana’s 2019 Winter Trimester on ’The Alchemy of Paint’, the lectures give an increasingly in-depth understanding of Alchemy, including alchemical themes in Visionary Art and the alchemical nature of artists’ traditional Mediums and Pigments. A bonus lecture on The Gnostic Worldview completes the series. More information on L. Caruana’s books: More information on The Vienna Academy of Visionary Art: -------------------------------------- 5. ALCHEMY & VISIONARY ART - An Overview: - Presenting a series of works with Alchemical themes from the world of Visionary Art, including: 1:59 - Giona Fiocchi and the Iona Tarot 4:12 - Leigh J. McCloskey and the Tarot Revisioned 8:17 - Madeline von Foerster 9:38 - Peter Proksch 11:25 - Johfra 18:54 - Ernst Fuchs’ Passion of the Unicorn cycle of engraving 26:07 - and other works by Ernst Fuchs