Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty
by Frithjof Schuon
World Wisdom Books, Bloomington, Indiana © 2003 292 pp.
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| Meditation |
Who is Frithjof Schuon? And what is in this large book filled with
beautiful images? In a carefully written introduction by Michael
Pollack, I learn that Frithjof Schuon is a philosopher, a metaphysician,
a poet, an artist, and a writer of books about spirituality and
religion. He was born in 1908 of German heritage and lived 91 years.
He died in 1998.
Images of Primordial and Mystic Beauty is a collection
of his paintings in color, black and white drawings, and poetry.
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| American Indian sketch - 4 |
In the introduction Michael Pollack describes Frithjof Schuon as a “metaphysician who occasionally paints . . . a person who believes that creating through art and craft is natural to every man, even a necessity. . . a way back to God.”
Schuon has a strong interest in Native Americans from the Southwest and
paints his impressions with a delicacy of line and color (
Native American Gallery). I was touched
by the respect he gave to his subject, be it in the color and detail of
an ornament or the grace of a nude body. There is a timeless quality in it all.
-- reviewed by Barbara Goldberg
