Spiritual Paintings

The Three Men

2011-10-14T18:11:00.001+01:00

"The Three Men" shows three male figures sitting by a table. The first figure from left is staring up at some Ganesha-like god and he is a symbol of an idealist. The blue man sitting opposite to him is a depressed materialist, a mind full of worries. Between them is sitting a man of the middle way, just drinking his tea now and here. And that's it, Buddhism.

Zbyněk Mikeš

2011-10-14T14:11:00.015+01:00

My friend Zbyněk Mikeš (*1979) is kind of a weird outsider. Both outsider human and outsider artist. Zbyněk creates very interesting paintings and installations. Recently I invited him to become a member of Svitava Art Group and it seems he agreed. See the original paintings by Zbyněk Mikeš. He can tell his strange daily stories very interestingly as well...

Thoughts - Head Over All

2011-09-29T14:48:00.002+01:00

You may know it. Sometimes we're overwhelmed by our thoughts. Yet thoughts are just thoughts! It will be OK again. And then it will be not OK again... :-) I painted that state of mind in "Head Over All".

Velveeta Heartbreak

2011-09-16T14:23:00.002+01:00

Yesterday, I've met on Etsy a Brooklyn-based artist called Velveeta Heartbreak who creates very interesting paintings. See that at his blog magicplasticcassettefactory.blogspot.com! Amazing psychedelic drawings!

David Chadwick's art page on Cuke.com

2011-09-15T21:21:00.002+01:00

Today I checked Brad's blog and found a link to the websites Cuke.com by David Chadwick which are dedicated to Shunryu Suzuki, great Zen teacher. See the visual art section there.

Painting together with the bees

2011-07-05T14:29:00.002+01:00

I said a few words in a teleview on national tv about bees and art, how I paint together with my bees.

I walked barefoot to the garden

2011-05-30T06:39:00.003+01:00

It was an ordinary experience to touch the ground with bare feet. Very good one.

How to help Japan?

2011-04-21T08:31:00.002+01:00

Artists may take action to support Japan in a new charity auction project Art Drive Japan. Thanks to Allan Yuuki Leal.

Kanagawa Biennial World Children's Art Exhibition in Japan

2011-04-15T07:48:00.001+01:00

I'm stunned by beautiful children paintings while browsing through winning entries of Kanagawa Biennial World Children's Art Exhibition in Japan. By the way winner of the latest year (16th Exhibition) is a 6-years old Czech boy Oldřich Poul from Nový Jičín. Congratulations! :-)

Could gorillas practice zazen?

2011-04-11T12:12:00.006+01:00

While beeing practicing 'just sitting' I'm becoming a bit more down-to-earth. Sick of a lot of my idealised paintings of spiritual concepts I wanted to make a next painting more realistic. Inspired by the inital scene of Baraka movie where monkey enjoys natural hot springs I pictured couple of resting apes. Well, the result is actually not entirely realistic. However. The male of semi-gorilla eating an apricot is just eating an apricot. Note a dead bird and annoying flies.

Seven heads

2011-04-11T11:53:00.004+01:00

Once I've experienced directly existence of my feet. And then I experienced directly that also other parts of my body do exist without dependence on thinking. This painting was done after a drawing expressing in an artistic way that direct experience of independence. By the way I did not paint seven heads as stated in title which are placed in man's body on the original drawing (symbol of own thinking). Why is the final picture so sweet and full of "spiritual" stuff like blooms levitating in space? Don't ask me, it's just a sweet painting. :-)

Love

2010-06-18T15:59:00.010+01:00

Original oil painting by Jan Karpisek "Love" was made to share and show the deepest sharing between two people, love, as artist experienced it: "I was not in my head, I have lost myself in You, dear..."

Zen Audio

2010-03-09T15:07:00.006+01:00

You can find nice speeches by Michael Eido Luetchford in English with Czech translation at http://www.dogensangha.cz/audio-video/. Mike is Brad Warner's brother in Dharma lineage. I like them both very very much. :-)

Dragon-Lion-Hero

2010-03-04T22:12:00.002+01:00

Original acrylic painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "Dragon-Lion-Hero" represents a house-head of enamoured author, in which a monk practices zazen, distracting himself from his own drawing of a beloved woman, who is both a dragon and a lion.

Who is always listening how the sweet pears ring?

2010-03-04T21:56:00.001+01:00

Original watercolor painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "Who is always listening how the sweet pears ring?" is a wider koan version representing meditation experience when suddenly both inner and out-of-head localization of sound appeared and an object for observation was also listening aparatus inside the head of observer.

Oheňíhit

2010-03-04T21:41:00.002+01:00

Original natural painting by painter Jan Karpíšek titled "Oheňíhit" (same as the authors' freegan exhibition in Olomouc) was made as an artificial dried-up pool at Jans' permaculture garden, it was only setup and the weather made the painting alone. The big center, Sun.

Double Pool

2010-03-04T21:36:00.001+01:00

Original natural painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "Double Pool" was made as an artificial dried-up double pool at authors' permaculture garden, it was only setup and the weather made the painting itself. Folded canvas, symetric but different halves. The longer you look the more you see.

Suddenly I localized a heard sound outside as well as inside my head

2010-03-04T21:15:00.002+01:00

Original natural painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "Suddenly I localized a heard sound outside as well as inside my head" was made of aluminium caps (recycling as a freegan principle) and natural pigment in home-made oil colour. Based on meditation experience of sound inside and outside the head localization. The inner ear bones? Where is the Self?

The Little Tea

2009-11-30T12:13:00.004+01:00

Original linear painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "The Little Tea" was created in Berlin in September 2009 exhibition in F.I.T., a former gas station already converted on the art side. A big muscled man drinking tea from a tiny cup is a funny metaphor of disproportion or power of natural chemicals?

Über Skizzen

2009-11-30T12:08:00.005+01:00

Original freestyle painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "Über Skizzen" was created while Tobias Roth has been reading his essay at the Betakontext exhibition in Berlin F.I.T. of Dida Zende, a former gas station already converted on the art side, in September 2009. Painting based on listening, free associations in foreign language, which Karpíšek knows only partly and he understood only about a tenth.

Berlin Bear

2009-11-30T11:53:00.005+01:00

Original common painting by painter Jan Karpíšek and Michal Gogora "Berlin Bear" was created on the Betakontext exhibition in Berlin during September 2009 in F.I.T. of Dida Zende, a former gas station already converted on the art side. A totemic armorial animal of the german capital city or just only a man with bear's head acts in a strange erotic scene with an excited woman.

Oheňíhit - Freegan art of time paintings?

2009-09-29T14:04:00.002+01:00

The Cipher of The Web

2009-09-11T15:09:00.005+01:00

Original painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "The Cipher of The Web" shows a silhouette of pure enlightened buddha having rest, who cut off all thinking and had an insight in tissue of web of the world. Fish without head, sun reflections on the water-table inside and outside of mind...

I Am Always Here

2009-07-09T22:31:00.003+01:00

Original painting by painter Jan Karpíšek "I Am Always Here" represents a sleeping hairless man in mountains by the sea, surrounded with radishes, some woman's dark hair creeps by his legs, a fruit tree with ripening plums grows and a sickle lies close to his hand. A small bird is singing above his head and a boat with anchored fishing rod is harboured down the hill. The painting symbolizes Being out of wakefulness and normal consciousness, Buddha nature, not craving and no-thinking, sleep of Buddha...

In the Parquet

2009-07-09T22:26:00.000+01:00

Original oil painting by painter Jan Karpíšek In the Parquet is just a visual note on watching the floor recently.