Jawlensky on the meditation’s path
Francesco Giaveri
Anales de Historia del Arte May 4, 2020 DOI: 10.5209/rev_anha.2013.v23.43611 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Historical analysis Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation |
| Keywords | Jawlensky Serialidad Meditación Retrato Expresionismo. |
| Key points | Argues that Jawlensky's Meditations series (1934–1937) marks the high point of his stylization and colour control and the culmination of his commitment to seriality, produced despite difficult economic and physical circumstances. The text proposes that these serial heads function as a kind of transcendental meditation and as the artist's strategy against contingent time. |
Abstract
The most significative of Jawlensky’s last series, the Meditations, represent high point of stylization and control of colour. From 1934 to 1937, the artist painted several of these modern icons in a very difficult situation, both economically and phisically. They represent a culmination of his oeuvre and his comitment to seriality. Considered as a kind of transcendental meditation, this series of heads represents its strategy against the contingent time.
Comparable studies
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|---|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. | 2004 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mechanisms of mindfulness | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective | 2011 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness | 2012 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |