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OTTO RAPP FAA ARTWORK ON INSTAGRAM

3/2/2020

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60 images from my post on Instagram
of my artwork on Fine Art America.

My Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/artofthemystic/
My FAA page:
https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/otto-rapp
you can also find these on my Pixels website:
https://otto-rapp.pixels.com/

CREDITS:
Royalty free music from DAVID FESLIYAN
1. Forest Ventures
2. Beautiful Village
https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Soundtrack on Final Credits by KEVIN MACLEOD
http://incompetech.com/music/

MAGICAL DREAMS IV - Włocławek, Poland

1/7/2018

EXHIBITION OPENING MAGICAL DREAMS IV - WŁOCŁAWEK

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click for Facebook Invitation - Thursday, July 5 at 6 PM - 9 PM

Exhibition schedule:
Jul 5 – Aug 26, 2018

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The opening of the international exhibition of magical realism "Magical Dreams" in which 37 outstanding artists will participate will take place on Thursday, July 5 at 18.00 at the "Browar B." Cultural Center in Włocławek in Antresola and Suszarnia galleries.

Wernisaż międzynarodowej wystawy magicznego realizmu "Magical Dreams" w której uczestniczy 37 znakomitych artystów odbędzie się w czwartek 5.lipca o godz. 18.00 w Centrum Kultury "Browar B." we Włocławku w Galeriach Antresola i Suszarnia.

The Surrogate Mother-Goddess of Wisdom

My Artwork in this exhibition

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DRAWING DETAILS - Video

3/7/2017

Details of drawings by Otto Rapp, created over several decades,
from the early seventies until the present.

Find many Otto Rapp Drawings in this Flickr album:
https://flic.kr/s/aHsk6HDqXT

CREDITS:
"Dark Spaces"
"Take it all in"
Music and Sound effects
obtained from
https://www.zapsplat.com/

Voice Recording and mixing
on Audacity
http://www.audacityteam.org/

many of the works can be seen, and prints are available, on my Pixels site:
https://otto-rapp.pixels.com/

Ausstellung Otto Rapp im Atelier Moldovan

8/5/2017

Ausstellungseröffnung Otto Rapp
im Atelier Moldovan
Josefstädterstrasse 53
Object 18 / Im Hof
1080 Wien

18. Mai 2017
19:00 Uhr

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Ausstellung Otto Rapp im Atelier Moldovan

SURREALISMUS CALLAS in BAD SÄCKINGEN

29/4/2017

real - surreal - irreal - ?
2017

Die Ausstellung beginnt am 13.05.2017 in Bad Säckingen
und endet am 11.06.2017

Vernissage 13.05.2017 - 18 Uhr
Finissage 11.06.2017 - 15 Uhr

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My Artwork in this Exhibition:

ABANDONED BY HIS MOTHER

BOGOMIL SUNRISE 2

GONZO, IS THAT YOU?

OFFSPRING OF TIAMAT

Öffnungszeiten
14.05. – 11.06.2017
Mi, Do, Sa, So & Feiertage: 14 – 17 Uhr
Vernissage Sa 13.05.2017, 18 Uhr
Kuratorenführung I Sa 20.05.2017 15 Uhr
Kuratorenführung II Sa 10.06.2017 15 Uhr
Finissage So 11.06.2017 um 15 Uhr
Villa Berberich
Kulturhaus der Stadt Bad Säckingen
Parkstr. 1
D-79713 Bad Säckingen

additional info: REAL – SURREAL – IRREAL?

VISIONARY ALCHEMY Exhibition

16/3/2017

I am happy to show my work in New York again,
with some old friends and terrific artists!

"VISIONARY ALCHEMY"

Exhibition of the Society for Art of Imagination
with the participation of 49 international artists.
From April 29th to May 13th, 2017
ONE ART SPACE
23 Warren Street, New York NY 10007
Opening reception: Saturday April 29th, 6:00 to 9:00 PM

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VISIONARY ALCHEMY

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This is the artwork I am showing:

FOMORII INCUBATOR - IN THE BEGINNING

FOMORII INCUBATOR - IN THE BEGINNING
Acrylic glazes and egg tempera on canvas
29" x 34"

MAGICAL DREAMS III - Wrocław

25/4/2016

MAGICAL DREAMS III - Wrocław

Magical Dreams III
Galeria Miejska we Wrocławiu - Wrocław, Poland
May 5th to June 11th 2016
Opening Reception May 5th 2016 at 18:00
Group Show

MAGICAL DREAMS III - Wrocław

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A Virtual Tour of Hieronymus Bosch's Masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights

17/2/2016

On the website of Open Culture
I was delighted to find this entry from February 8, 2016
Take a Virtual Tour of Hieronymus Bosch’s Bewildering Masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights
because it complements perfectly the category of
Hieronymus Bosch
of this blog and adds additional insights into the extensive research already presented here.

Take a Virtual Tour of Hieronymus Bosch’s Bewildering Masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights

Art historians have argued about the meaning of The Garden of Earthly Delights--Hieronymus Bosch’s enormously sized, lavishly detailed, and compellingly grotesque late 14th- or early 15th-century triptych—more or less since the painter’s death. What does it really say about the appearance and fall of man on Earth that it seems to depict? How seriously or ironically does it say it? Does it offer us a warning against temptation, or a celebration of temptation? Does it take a religious or anti-religious stance? And what’s with all those creepy animals and bizarre pseudo-sex acts? “In spite of all the ingenious, erudite and in part extremely useful research devoted to the task,” said scholar Erwin Panofsky, “I cannot help feeling that the real secret of his magnificent nightmares and daydreams has still to be disclosed.”

....... read MORE

The Open Culture article also links to an incredible
“interactive documentary” of The Garden of Early Delights

the various parts of the painting are explained when you click the description icons as you zoom into the details.

Of course this here blog entry is the short version, and you should really visit the original source for more insights.

Below, find this excellent trailer from Pieter van Huystee Film on Vimeo:

Jheronimus Bosch, Touched by the Devil TRAILER from Pieter van Huystee Film on Vimeo.

Check out the category
HIERONYMUS BOSCH
for additional blogs and more excellent research on the subject.

Check out the category HIERONYMUS BOSCH

IM'AGO PRIMORDIALIS exhibition at Krab Jab Studio, Seattle USA

15/12/2015

IM'AGO PRIMORDIALIS exhibition at Krab Jab Studio, Seattle USAPicture

July 9 - September 3, 2016
Artists' reception:
July 9, 2016, 6-9 PM
Krab Jab Studio
5628 Airport Way S. Suite 150
Seattle, USA

Artworks by :
Brigid Marlin, Peter Gric, Iain Whittaker, Roku Sasaki, Tomasz Alen Kopera, Steven Kenny, Liba W. Stambollion, Igor Grechanyk, Martina Hoffmann, Amanda Sage, Autumn Skye Morrison, Susannah Martin, Andrew Gonzalez, Otto Rapp, Forest Rogers, Jean Pronovost, Miguel Tio, Benjamin Vierling, Jeff Mihalyo, Don Farrell, Yvette Endrijautzki, William Fahey and Bryan K. Ward.

Curated by : Don Farrell, in association with Krab Jab Studio

"Knowing doesn't reside in the knower,
nor does truth in what is known,
but in between."
- "A Mystical Epistemology", Peter Reason

Mystery has been banished; everything must be defined. And yet, while analytical thought bestows many gifts upon civilization, we remain insatiable. As if the unknown, itself, is the very ferment of community, humility, love....and life.

Embracing mystery as a source of inspiration, Fantastic Realists from around the world present this exhibition of numinous, visionary art - to reawaken feeling and intuition marginalized in today's cynical analyses.

Like the mystical traditions of countless cultures, their works assign symbols to The Unknowable, reaching through the ephemeral illusion we have come to know as reality, to an underlying, timeless, spiritual narrative. Universal mythology is interpreted with vivid imagination, and masterful technique renders it believably real.

Beneath the veil of seeming, an intuitive, visual language suggests that we are all part of something glorious, yet unrevealed. Fulfillment reflects from mystery in the primordial image, encouraging us to find, within ourselves, a unique understanding beyond the grasp of intellect...a feeling of connection...our own personal harmony with an ancient melody that is often unheard amidst the dissonance of perpetual immediacy.

I will be showing my drawing SPIRAL RAPTURE II

This Blog has been updated June 2016
to feature posters produced for this show:

Some of my artwork recently returned from Canada

2/10/2015

As you might be aware, I have a residence and studio in Canada, and also in Vienna, Austria. On my last trip to Canada, I took some of my work from there to bring to Austria. This is not a complete list, and there are quite a few works left in Canada.

Images link to Flickr and open in separate window:

MEMORIES OF PABLO AND MAX - acrylic on paper, mounted on masonite - 1995 - 20x18 cm

MEMORIES OF PABLO AND MAX
- acrylic on paper, mounted on masonite - 1995 - 20x18 cm

BOGOMILS VEGETABLE GARDEN acrylic on canvas - 1976

BOGOMILS VEGETABLE GARDEN
acrylic on canvas - 1976

BOGOMILS LANDING acrylic on canvas, 81.3 x 58.5cm, 1976-92

BOGOMILS LANDING
acrylic on canvas, 81.3 x 58.5cm, 1976-92

BOGOMILS OCULAR TOMB acrylic on masonite, 1993, 15x25cm

BOGOMILS OCULAR TOMB
acrylic on masonite, 1993, 15x25cm

BOGOMILS CEREMONIAL STAGE: CASPAR AND HIS PROPS acrylic on canvas, 25.5x35.5cm, 1983

BOGOMILS CEREMONIAL STAGE: CASPAR AND HIS PROPS
acrylic on canvas, 25.5x35.5cm, 1983

BOGOMIL RISING acrylic/mixedmedia on wood, 53x38cm, 1995

BOGOMIL RISING
acrylic/mixedmedia on wood, 53x38cm, 1995

PARTHENOGENESIS II acrylic on masonite, 17x28.5cm, 1992

PARTHENOGENESIS II
acrylic on masonite, 17x28.5cm, 1992

If interested in this, or any other of my work, please contact:

Anni Fuchs

Fantastic Art Shop