Sentences with phrase «alchemical diagrams»

Treister's interests tend towards esoterica like Hebrew numerology, alchemical diagrams, Tarot cards, and secret power structures like spy networks or government mind - control programs.

Or MoMA could explore the work of Hilma af Klint, the Swede who fashioned mystic - looking alchemical diagrams and who arrived at pure abstraction more than five years before the great Kasimir Malevich.

The patterning that composes each image is sourced from both Eastern and Western aesthetic traditions: Paleolithic and Neo-Paleolithic fetish objects, West African ceremonial masks, Greek Icon painting, Italian and Northern Renaissance altarpieces, Jewish ceremonial textiles such as Tallit and Torah arks, Islamic prayer rugs, alchemical diagrams and geometric references to mathematical equations.

She mines patterns sourced from Jewish ceremonial textiles, West African ritual masks, orthodox icon paintings, alchemical diagrams and mathematical equations.