Julius Granström

Aboriginal X-Ray Art doesn’t just show animals and ancestral beings from the outside — it reveals their internal organs, bones, spirit, and life force. Fish, turtles, kangaroos, Mimih spirits, and powerful ancestral beings are painted as if the viewer can see beneath the skin itself.

This extraordinary tradition evolved from ancient Arnhem Land rock art into bark painting using natural ochres and eucalyptus bark, creating one of the world’s great continuous artistic traditions.

Pool and reflected Palm Tree - David Hockney , 1976.

British, b. 1937 -

Josef Lorenzl, 1892-1950

Diana with her dog, ca.1925, bronze, 44.5 cm

Saturnine night

“Behold, in Saturn a Gold lies enclosed (…). Just so man lies now, after his fall, in a great, formless, bestial, dead likeness (…). He is like the coarse stone in Saturn (…); the outer body is a stinking cadaver, because it still lives in poison.” (Jacob Böhme, De signatura rerum)

“Therein lies the most evil poison of all (…) and an earthly treasure and an earthly God in whose hands lies the spiritual and earthly law, and who has the whole World in his hand.”

First steps

'I believe that my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair… new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling… I believe that painting can change the world…'