Here is the Image List, thumbnails and the link to the online gallery of the lecture
The online gallery is here:
S U B L I M E : PAINTING THE INEFFABLE
"I seek the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea." Mark Rothko, 1949
"The artist's problem is how to transform the material with which he works back into the sphere of the spirit..." Hans Hofmann, 1967
"To sense the soul, without explanation, without words, and to depict the sensation..."Yves Klein, 1960
1 Gottfried Boehm, cited text, 1994
2 Kasimir Malevich, Black Suprematist Square, 1924-15 version
3 Installation Photograph of the Exhibition 0.10 (zero ten), December, 1915, St. Petersburg
4 Olga Rozanova, Untitled (Green Stripe), 1917
5 Olga Rozanova, Non Objectiive Composition (Suprematism), c. 1916
6 Joan Miró, Blue, 1925
7 Yves Klein, IKB 3, 1960
8 Wolfgang Laib, Hazelnut Pollen, 1987
9 Garry Fabian Millar, Untitled, 14 August, 1993
10 Hirogi Sugimoto, North Pacific Ocean, Mount Tamalpais, 1994
11 William Turner, Snowstorm, 1842
12 Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, Thought-Forms, UK, 1901
13 Madame Blavatsky in perambulator, attended by two students
James M. Pryse (left) and G. R. S. Mead (right)
14 Wassily Kandinsky, Study for Composition No. II, 1910
15 Wassily Kandinsky, Composition No. 4, 1911
16 Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation No. 19, 1911
17 Wassily Kandinsky, Controlled Improvisation: Fugue, 1914
18 Frantisek Kupka, Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colours, 1912
19 Frantisek Kupka, Cosmic Spring, 1911-12
20 Piet Mondrian, Composition with Blue and Yellow, 1932
21 Joan Miró, Figures, 1925
22 André Masson, Fish Drawn on the Sand, 1927
23 André Breton, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duhamel, Max Morise, Exquisite Corpse, c. 1926
24 Max Ernst, Woman's Enemy or Man, Woman's Best Friend, 1927
25 Yves Tanguy, At Four a.m. in Summer: Hope, 1929
26 Oscar Dominguez, Decalcomania, 1936
27 Salvador Dali, The Cavalier of Death, 1934
28 Wolfgang Paalen, Land of Medusa, 1937
29 Arshile Gorky, Garden in Sochi, c.1943
30 Arshile Gorky, The Liver in The Cock's Comb, 1944
31 Arshile Gorky, cited text (letter to his sister), 1944
32 Arshile Gorky, Water at the Flowery Mill, 1944
33 Arshile Gorky dancing at a party in 1945
34 Arshile Gorky, Study for 'Agony', 1946
35 Arshile Gorky, Agony, 1947
36 Jackson Pollock, Pasiphaë, 1943
37 Jackson Pollock, The Key, 1947
38 Hans Namuth, Jackson Pollock, Springs, New York, 1950
39 Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist, 1948 (?)
40 Jackson Pollock, Number 27, 1950
41 Detail of Number 27
42 Jackson Pollock with Peggy Guggenheim, in front of Mural, 1943
43 Lee Krasner, Gothic Landscape, 1961
44 Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at Modern Art in America, published in P. M., June 2nd., 1942
45 Willem de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle, 1952-3
46 Willem de Kooning, Woman as Landscape, 1953-54
47 Willem de Kooning, Saturday Night, 1956
48 Hans Hofmann, Mirage, 1946
49 Robert Motherwell, Elegy to a Spanish Republic, #34, 1953-54
50 Robert Motherwell, Black and White Passion, 1958
51 Franz Kline, Meryon, 1960-62
52 Clyfford Still, 1957 D No. 1, 1957
53 Clyfford Still, November 1950, 1950
54 Clyfford Still, Nineteen Fifty Three, 1953
55 Barnett Newman, Onement, 1, 1948
56 Barnett Newman, cited text, 1948
57 Barnett Newman, Via Heroicus Sublimus, 1950-51
58 Mark Rothko, Golden Composition, 1949
59 Mark Rothko, Maroon on Blue, 1957-60
60 Mark Rothko, Light Red Over Black, 1957
61 Yves Kelin, 52b 3, 1960
62 Luciano Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, 1965
63 Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting No 5, 1962
64 Robert Raushenberg, White Painting, 1951
65 Morris Louis, Saraband, 1959
66 Roy Lichtenstein, Big Painting IV, 1965
Suggested Reading:
Robert Hughes, American Visions, 1996 (Chapter: The Empire of Signs)
Jonathan Fineberg, Strategies of Being, Art Since 1940, 1995 (Chapters 2, 3 and 4)
Artists influenced by Theosophy and links:
http://www.katinkahesselink.net/his/theosophy-art.html
http://www.theosophyforum.org.uk/artindex.htm
