View allAll Photos Tagged omnipotence
This picture has omnipotence because there are many different colors which shows how powerful God is and what He can do
Cape Coast. March 29th, 2023.
Interior of Nyaniba Guest House. Adinkra Gye Nyame
Gye Nyame means “Except God.” It expresses the omnipotence and supremacy of God in all affairs.
Gye Nyame is arguably the most popular Adinkra symbol. It expresses the deep faith the Akans have in the Supreme Being, called by many names and titles including Onyame (Nyame), Onyankopɔn, Twereduampɔn (the reliable one), and many others.
God Is For Me
"When I cry out to You, Then my enemies will turn back; This I know, because God is for me."
Psalms 56:9 (NKJV)
It is impossible for any human speech to express the full meaning of this delightful phrase, "God is for me." He was "for us" before the worlds were made; he was "for us," or he would not have given his well-beloved son; he was "for us" when he smote the Only-begotten, and laid the full weight of his wrath upon him--he was "for us," though he was against him; he was "for us," when we were ruined in the fall--he loved us notwithstanding all; he was "for us," when we were rebels against him, and with a high hand were bidding him defiance; he was "for us," or he would not have brought us humbly to seek his face. He has been "for us" in many struggles; we have been summoned to encounter hosts of dangers; we have been assailed by temptations from without and within--how could we have remained unharmed to this hour if he had not been "for us"? He is "for us," with all the infinity of his being; with all the omnipotence of his love; with all the infallibility of his wisdom; arrayed in all his divine attributes, he is "for us,"--eternally and immutably "for us"; "for us" when yon blue skies shall be rolled up like a worn out vesture; "for us" throughout eternity. And because he is "for us," the voice of prayer will always ensure his help. " When I cry out to You, Then my enemies will turn back". This is no uncertain hope, but a well grounded assurance--"this I know." I will direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up for the answer, assured that it will come, and that mine enemies shall be defeated, " because God is for me " O believer, how happy art thou with the King of kings on thy side! How safe with such a Protector! How sure thy cause pleaded by such an Advocate! If God be for thee, who can be against thee? God bless
Dear God,
I don’t know if you listen to this little blue planet anymore.
I’ve long thought that you turned your back and walked away.
You know all the reasons I believe that, but this isn’t about our ongoing argument about omnipotence and free will.
Remember that burning baby in El Salvador? Remember that pile of skulls? Remember all those trips to Texas after Gina was killed?
Remember that night in the Sheraton?
This isn’t about any of that. I’m over all of that.
This is about gratitude.
My gratitude.
My humility.
Saturday morning in that meadow. . .
I’m not sure what that was meant to be, I just paid it forward.
The moments with Em, in this meadow. . .well I do know what this was.
OK
I get grace now.
Thank you for those 30 seconds alone in the meadow.
Thank you for Russel.
I get it.
“Every time I lift up mine eyes unto Thy heaven, I call to mind Thy highness and Thy loftiness, and Thine incomparable glory and greatness; and every time I turn my gaze to Thine earth, I am made to recognize the evidences of Thy power and the tokens of Thy bounty. And when I behold the sea, I find that it speaketh to me of Thy majesty, and of the potency of Thy might, and of Thy sovereignty and Thy grandeur. And at whatever time I contemplate the mountains, I am led to discover the ensigns of Thy victory and the standards of Thine omnipotence.”
–Baha'u'llah, Prayers and Meditations by Baha'u'llah (www.bahai.org/r/468046957)
WARNING... GRAPHIC CONTENT. These photos of were taken at Berlin's Topography of Terror museum.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topography_of_Terror
"Our aim is to show the topography of how the Nazi-initiated terror was implemented and how both the Nazi party and state institutions merged together," said the director of the Topography of Terror museum, Andreas Nachama, a rabbi and historian. "It holds lessons about the workings of other dictatorships as well... The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile or the military junta in Argentina."
The monument is yet another piece in the puzzle of Germany's attempts to come to terms with its Nazi past and reinforces its reputation as a country which like no other has painstakingly documented its misdeeds.
www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/06/topography-terror-n...
The caption from this picture:
"Despite numerous accounts... recalling the hectic quality of the decisions and events that followed January 30, 1933, the way in which Hitler's government, having been handed the reins of power, pursued the conquest, safeguarding and stabilization of power in close collaboration with Party formations, the Reichswehr, the bureaucracy and an acclamatory public, remains a breathtakingly dramatic process. In light of the first phase of this consolidation of power up to early August 1934, how can one possibly doubt that it bore all the marks of a totalitarian revolution, and that by its end Hitler had acquired a genuine 'position of omnipotence' as a symbolic figure of charismatic authority?"
"Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly on with all these chains to the battlefield." - excerpt from Sullivan Ballou's letter to his wife, Sarah - July the 14th, 1861
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa2hv8U8cWU
This letter, written by a civil war soldier to his wife just days before his death on the battlefield, is one of the most powerful love letters I have ever read. Though I couldn't be at my grandmother's funeral this past February in Scotland, I asked the pastor to read a few lines from this letter during the service...
Symbolizes God's unlimited power; omnipotence; the open hand symbolizes God reaching down to His people in a spirit of love and help - as a father caring for his children. (I Peter 5:6)Sanctuary window notes from the sermon "Symbols the Enrich Our Faith" given by John D. Trefzger on April 12, 1964.
Location: 415 George St. Brisbane (Supreme and District Courts)
The disembodied eye featured in Eyes are Singing Out is a symbol that appears in many cultures throughout time. It is suggestive not only of a watchful public but also omnipotence, enlightenment and inspiration.
Taste of Chicago, Buckingham fountain double exposed with omnipotent girlfriend. :-P Shot with a Lomo Smena 8 35mm
WHO IS KING BABY?
To understand King Baby, lets imagine for a moment we’re returning to the womb. Here we feel warmth, security, comfort, freedom and power. All our needs are taken care of. We are the center of our universe. We are cared for just because we exist, and we are perfectly content.
Infancy also encourages our King Baby attitudes. Our loud demands for food, attention and care are answered immediately. We are again the center of a vast kingdom; our wishes are all important. Through the natural maturing processes of childhood and adulthood, most of the King Baby mentality is discarded and replaced by appropriate coping skills.
Some of us, however, advanced through the stages of physical growth without shedding this immature creature—King Baby. For us, King Baby never forgets the wonderful, warm security of prenatal and infant life and will try again and again to experience it. King Baby strives to recapture the total contentment of every need being met.
KING BABY CHARACTERISTICS
In attempting to regain the security of infancy, King Babies continue to function with the same feelings that gratified them so long ago. When infantile traits continue into adulthood, the person is spoken of as immature and this immaturity is tied to the traits of feelings of omnipotence, inability to accept frustrations and doing things hurriedly.
King Babies share a wide range of personality traits. None of us has all of these traits, but we will probably find many that describe us. King Babies may show these characteristics:
1.often become angry at or afraid of authority figures and will attempt to work them against each other in order to get their own way.
2.seek approval and frequently lose their own identities in the process
3.are able to make a good first impression but are unable to follow through
4.have difficulty accepting personal criticism and become threatened and angry when criticized
5.have addictive personalities and are driven to extremes
6.are self-rejecting or self-alienated
7.are often immobilized by anger and frustration and are rarely satisfied
8.are usually lonely even when surrounded by people
9.are chronic complainers who blame others for what’s wrong with their lives
10.feel unappreciated and think they don’t fit in
11.see the world as a jungle filled with selfish people who “aren’t there” for them
12.see everything as a catastrophe, a life-and-death situation
13.judge life in absolutes: black or white, right or wrong
14.live in the past while fearful of the future
15.have strong feelings of dependence and exaggerated fears of abandonment
16.fear failure and rejection and don’t try new things that they might not do well
17.dream big plans and schemes and have little ability to make them happen
18.are obsessed with money and material things
19.cannot tolerate illness in themselves or others
20.prefer to charm superiors and intimidate subordinates
21.believe rules and laws are for others, not for themselves
22.often become addicted to excitement, life in the fast lane
23.hold emotional pain within and lose touch with their feelings
What you know about the power of Christ determines the strength of your faith. Know a little bit about Christ and his omnipotence, and you have weak faith; know more about Christ as sovereign Lord, and you have more faith; know a great deal about Christ, and you are on your way to having great faith.
-- Rose Marie Miller, From Fear to Freedom
An Ignorance A Sunset
Emily Dickinson
An ignorance a Sunset
Confer upon the Eye—
Of Territory—Color—
Circumference—Decay—
Its Amber Revelation
Exhilirate—Debase—
Omnipotence’ inspection
Of Our inferior face—
And when the solemn features
Confirm—in Victory—
We start—as if detected
In Immortality—
The motif on the tower of Bury shopping mall depicts a winged sun god, Egyptian I guess.
The winged disk emblem is found in many ancient cultures around the world. The winged sun disk is one of the oldest religious symbols on earth, and it is invariably a solar symbol.
The Egyptian figure pictured above is called Behedti, with the wings of Horus, and represents the omnipotence of the sun God Re, and the divinity of the Pharaoh.
An Assyrian winged disk represents the sun God Shamash:
Again you'll find these symbols on all sorts of things from cars to buildings.
Feilai Feng, or "the Peak that Flew Hither", also commonly translated as "Flying Peak", is located in front of the temple proper. The peak is so-named because it is made of limestone, giving it a craggy appearance very different to the surrounding mountains. Legend holds that the peak was originally from India (with some versions suggesting that it is Vulture Peak, but flew to Hangzhou overnight as a demonstration of the omnipotence of Buddhist law. A large number of carvings dot the surface of the peak. More are located in various caves and grottos throughout the peak. Within the main cave, dedicated to the bodhisattva Guanyin, there is a crack in the ceiling of the cave that stretches up to the surface, so that a person standing at a certain position can see a sliver of sunlight. This is known as the "one thread of heaven" (一线天).
Dictionary: Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.
Encyclopedia: Surrealism. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.
Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
fecemi la divina podestate,
la somma sapienza e 'l primo amore.
Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.
Through me the way is to the city dolent;
Through me the way is to eternal dole;
Through me the way among the people lost.
Justice incited my sublime Creator;
Created me divine Omnipotence,
The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.
Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!
Cape Coast. March 27th, 2023.
Savoy. Residential Road. Adinkra Gye Nyame
Adinkra are visual symbols with religious, historical and philosophical significance
Gye Nyame Except God. A symbol expressing the omnipotence of God. Probably, the most popular Adinkra symbol.
Oh, little M&M, for venturing into my kingdom you shall pay with your very life! Just like your flavoursome brethren, I will crush your sugary carapace without a thought for your screams and then I will devour your nutty innards!
Fear me, puny confection. Prepare to face the might of Gob!
Stained Glass Windows from Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Monroe, CT
Handmade by members of the congregation.
Dedicated in memory of Rev. Charles R. Schwarz (1940-1999) in November 2004.
God created all that is and everything that he created was good. He spoke and his Word, symbolized by the three-dimensional beam of light, brought about all that exists. Man, the epitome of God’s creation, was formed in God’s image, distinct from all else. We are not like God in appearance, omnipresence, omnipotence, or omniscience, but our inventive and intellectual abilities reflect that of our creator. He has endowed us with the freedom to make choices and the capacity to demonstrate goodness and love.
We have an extraordinary relationship with God, superior to the rest of creation but subordinate to him. Even as Adam and Eve aspired to be like God and chose not to obey him, this unique bond was not destroyed. God’s infinite love for his people was immediately evident, and his plan for their salvation and redemption was established. God’s Holy Spirit, present from the very beginning and represented by the dove, is with us now and will remain with us always. The road that begins in the garden is one that we all travel as we respond to God’s boundless love and mercy and seek to follow his will.
I do not worship a "god" persay, although I do call upon the elements for guidance as well as jesus as well as his saints. However, if there were a god, I figure he would look something like this; balanced and all-seeing/all-knowing
The Daily Food and Drink God Prepares for Mankind
"I think your understanding now is still quite simple and literal, but are you at least able to, after listening to Me communicate these two aspects, recognize what methods God uses to supply mankind or what things God supplies to mankind? Do you have a basic concept as well as a basic understanding? But are these two aspects I communicated related to the Bible? (No.) Are they related to God’s judgment and chastisement in the Age of Kingdom? (No.) Then why did I communicate these two aspects? Is it because people must understand them to know God? (Yes.) It is very necessary to know these and it is also very necessary to understand these. Don’t just be restricted to the Bible, and don’t just be restricted to God’s judgment and chastisement of man to understand everything about God. What is the purpose of Me jumping out of the scope of communicating the Bible and stepping out of God’s words from the Age of Kingdom? It’s to let people know that God is not just the God of His chosen people. You currently follow God, and He is your God, but for those outside of the people who follow God, is God their God? Is God the God of all people outside of those who follow Him? (Yes.) Then is God the God of all things? (Yes.) Then does God do His work and perform His actions merely on those who follow Him? (No.) Its scope is the entire universe. From the small perspective, its scope is all of mankind and among all things. From the big perspective, it’s the entire universe. So we can say God does His work and performs His actions among all mankind. This is sufficient to let people know all about God Himself. If you want to know God and truly get to know and understand Him, then don’t just be restricted to the three stages of God’s work, and don’t just be restricted to the stories of the work God had once performed. If you try to know Him that way, then you are confining God to a certain limit. You’re seeing God as too insignificant. What influences would such consequences bring to you? You would never be able to know God’s wondrousness and supremacy, and you would never be able to know God’s power and omnipotence and the scope of His authority. Such an understanding would influence your ability to accept the truth that God is the Ruler of all things, as well as your knowledge of God’s true identity and status. In other words, if your understanding of God is limited in scope, what you can receive is also limited. That is why you must expand the scope and open your horizons. Whether it is the scope of God’s work, God’s management, and God’s rule, or all things ruled over and managed by God, you should get to know it all and get to know God’s actions therein. Through such a way of understanding, you will unconsciously feel that God is ruling over, managing and supplying all things among them. At the same time, you will also truly feel that you are a part of all things and a member of all things. As God supplies all things, you also accept God’s rule and supply. This is a fact no one can deny. All things are subject to their own laws, which is under God’s rule, and all things have their own rule of survival, which is also under God’s rule, while mankind’s fate and what they need are also closely related to God’s rule and His supply. That is why, under God’s dominion and rule, mankind and all things are interconnected, interdependent, and interwoven. This is the purpose and value of God’s creation of all things. Do you understand this now? (Yes.) If you understand then let’s finish up our communication here today. Goodbye!
from “God Himself, the Unique VIII: God Is the Source of Life for All Things (II)”"
Omnipotence - the dark clouds with the power to pour violent rain on this earth...that's power. As is Jesus!
Requirement 2: Large Depth of Field
A comprehended God is no God.
— St John Chrysostom
Typeface: Roswell
Merchandise available: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/141293645
GYE NYAME "Except God"
Also translates as "Unless God", "Be but for God", or "Only God".
A proverb states, "I fear nothing in the universe, except God."
The most popular adinkra symbol, representing the supremacy and omnipotence of God.
Name: Maximatosis, age no DNA has ever been collected and his age is therefore unknown also due to his ability to manipulate his own DNA doh!
About: Max is a bitter twisted megalomaniacal (we think it means a psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence and or an obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions...ha ha) mutant half man half rabbit species from a far off planet in the same solar system as Frog. Back on his home planet an alien strain of the Myxomatosis virus wiped out most of the population of his world and now Max is on a mission to replenish it using animals and plants from ours.
Interests: As he is totally fascinated by animal genetics he is also a collector of endangered species. If they aren’t endangered, he will soon make them so.
Interesting Fact: He can jump very high and can telepathically control animals to do his bidding. Consequently he is a fearsome adversary, especially for Frog. Catchphrase “Hee hee hee there can only be 1”. He hates being called a Rodent. Rabbits are in fact not rodents but belong to their own order called lagomorphs. The evolutionary split between rabbits and other living mammals on earth probably occurred about thirty million years ago.
مَن كَانَ يُرِيدُ ٱلْعِزَّةَ فَلِلَّهِ ٱلْعِزَّةُ جَمِيعًا ۚ إِلَيْهِ يَصْعَدُ ٱلْكَلِمُ ٱلطَّيِّبُ وَٱلْعَمَلُ ٱلصَّـٰلِحُ يَرْفَعُهُۥ ۚ
Whoever desires for himself honor, (should know) then for Allah (alone) is all the Honor.
To Him ascends the good words, and righteous deeds raises it.
Surah Fatir, Verse 10
Tafseer e Jilani:
Man kana yureed ul izzata: The one who wants honour, endless, after which never comes humiliation ever, then he should turn towards Allah and makes his focus His One-ness.
Fa lillahe izzatu: For only Allah is the True Owner of Honour, which includes control, eternal majesty and all kingdoms…
Jami-an: overt (zahiri) and inner (batini). And the one who desires that Allah bestow upon him honour and control and absolute kingdoms and abundance that remains forever, then he should, in his initial stages toward Allah, praise Him by way of His Perfect Names and Exalted Attributes till his remembrance reaches the stages of their reflection in him.
This (the reflection) is the last effort and then he becomes a reflector of Allah’s Being, wanting to unveil the Veils of His Omnipotence, till he becomes present before Him, able to unveil Him and witness the Signs of His Names and Attributes on the surface of the Universe without the distortion created by others.
And overall (in summary), the one who seeks honour should be occupied in the Remembrance by Allah in the early stages because
Ilayhi yasadu alkalm at tayyabu: towards Him ascend good words which are the Prefect Names of Allah and His Exalted Attributes, increasing in frequency from the tongues of The Sincere and The Ones who Reflect in Allah’s Blessings and His Bounty…
Wal al amal as saleh: and (they should be occupied) in good deeds joined with ikhlas, sincerity and tabbatul, devotion to Him (also ascending towards Him)…
Yarfa’uhu: (which will be why) He then raises that deed founded upon sincerity and those good words allowing them to reach towards the stages of Closeness with Allah. So for the one whose sincerity in his deed is perfect, then the ranks of his words, which are raised towards Allah Subhanahu, are the highest and the most supreme to Him.
green-unity-Akom ntoa
center blue and red-omnipotence of God-Gye nyame
aqua-strength-Aban
the colors are artistic license as I explore the concepts: symbols as language/color as language/pattern as language/stitches as language/my perception and viewer perception as language.
Surrealism is based on belief of superior reality of certain forms in the omnipotence of dream; and dis oriented play of thoughts.
symbolism of inhuman forms plays pure reflections of mankind today.
Absurd. Ignorance. Deconstructions.
view it better at our blog!
The Thousand Headed form of Avalokiteshvara the Bodhisattva of compassion. The thousand heads, hands and feet are a representation of his omnipotence and omniscience. The Dalai Lama is the reincarnation of Avalokiteshvara.
The most common translation of Pantocrator is "Almighty" or "All-powerful". In this understanding, Pantokrator is a compound word formed from the Greek words for "all" and the noun "strength" (κρατος). This is often understood in terms of potential power; i.e., ability to do anything, omnipotence.
Another, more literal translation is "Ruler of All" or, less literally, "Sustainer of the World". In this understanding, Pantokrator is a compound word formed from the Greek for "all" and the verb meaning "To accomplish something" or "to sustain something" (κρατεω). This translation speaks more to God's actual power; i.e., God does everything (as opposed to God can do everything).
[From the Wiki entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Pantocrator ]
Minnie Evans, Born Long Creek, NC 1892
died Wilmington, NC 1987
Airlie Oak, 1954, oil paint on wood, 14 × 18 × 2 in.
Minnie Evans lived most of her life in North Carolina. At seventeen, she found work as a gatekeeper in the lush gardens of a coastal estate, Airlie-on-Sound, which became a public park in 1949. Evans felt inspired by God to celebrate his resplendent creations with art. In free moments, she drew or painted floral scenes with goddess-like figures in their midst. In Airlie Oak, Evans honored an immense 400-year-old tree at Airlie; a live oak over twenty-feet-wide at the base. She created this bas-relief from bits of dried paint, made malleable with turpentine and added cumulatively over time, as she explained: "I just kept on doing that until I got this big old tree."
"I have no imagination. I never plan a drawing, they just happen. In a dream it was shown to me what I have to do, of paintings. The whole entire horizon all the way across the whole earth was out together like this with pictures. All over my yard, up all the sides of trees and everywhere were pictures." — Minnie Evans quoted in Nina Howell Starr, "The Lost World of Minnie Evans," The Bennington Review vol. 111, no. 2 (Summer 1969): 41.
The paintings and drawings of Minnie Evans depict scenes from the artist's private dream world. But even to the artist herself, this dream world was not entirely comprehensible. Evans was born in 1890, the only child of Joseph and Ella Kelley, farmers who lived in rural Pender County, North Carolina, near Wilmington. Evans' parents moved to Wilmington during her early childhood, and she attended school there through the sixth grade. She married Julius Evans of Wilmington and had three sons.
Evans traced her background to a maternal ancestor who was brought to the United States from Trinidad as a slave. There are elements in Evans' art that invite comparison to Caribbean folk art forms, though the artist only once traveled outside her native North Carolina. The bright colors and floral motifs that appear in her paintings were most likely inspired by trees and flowers, especially azaleas, at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, where Evans worked as the gatekeeper for many years.
"My whole life has been dreams . . . sometimes day visions . . . they would take advantage of me," Evans once said. She also recalled that in 1944 a fortune teller informed her that she was "wrapped completely in color," and that she had "something of all nations."
The dream world of Minnie Evans received its earliest visual manifestations on Good Friday 1935 when she completed two small pen-and-ink drawings on paper dominated by concentric circles and semi-circles against a background of unidentifiable linear motifs. Evans always placed a good deal of significance on these early drawings.
Evans' first paintings were done entirely in wax crayons and resemble an exercise employing every color in a gigantic box of Crayolas. The colors included greens shaded from light to deep, purples from mauve to pink, rose, and royal, and full ranges of reds, blues, and yellows with a sparing use of black and white. Evans' complex designs reveal an unaccountable presence of Caribbean, East Indian, Chinese, and Western elements in color and subject matter. Her own explanation of her work was that "this art that I have put out has come from the nations I suppose might have been destroyed before the flood. . . . No one knows anything about them, but God has given it to me to bring [them] back into the world."
The central motif in many of Evans' paintings is a human face surrounded by curvilinear and spiral plant and animal forms and eyes merging with foliate patterns. She equated eyes with the omniscience of God and the concept of the eye as the window of the soul. The figures in her designs are sometimes portraits of ancient wise men and women who peopled her visions,ancestral visitors from some spiritual order, or angels, demons, and chimerical creatures. Evans' paintings are essentially religious in inspiration, and represent a world in which God, man, and nature are synonymous; God is frequently represented as a winged figure with a wide multicolored collar and rainbow halo. He is surrounded by a proliferation of butterflies, eyes, trees, plants, and floral forms in a garden paradise of brilliant colors contained within a cartouche-like frame of curvilinear rhythms.
The paintings and colored drawings of Minnie Evans are surrealistic without intellectualism or self-consciousness. They are the works of a visionary who equated God with nature, color with His divine presence, and dreams and visions with reality. The world as revealed through Evans' psychic revelations is a sacred province of complex visionary forms, angels, demons, hybrid plants, animals, and the all-seeing eye of God.
"Something told me to draw or die," Evans stated. "It was shown to me what I should do." The fact that her paintings "just happened to her" confirms that they are manifestations of an order of things unknown except to the artist herself. The art of Minnie Evans is a refreshing phenomenon—a lost world revealed through a subconscious that even she did not understand. Evans stated, "When I get through with them [the paintings] I have to look at them like everybody else. They are just as strange to me as they are to anybody else."
Evans died in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1987.
Most of Evans' paintings are similar yet no two are identical. Reflecting the many colors of the flowers of the botanical gardens where she worked, her paintings shimmer with the complexity of Byzantine mosaics. And like Byzantine mosaics, Evans' works embody a common religious intent and express the omnipotence of God.
americanart.si.edu/artist/minnie-evans-1466
__________________________________
SAAM’s collection of folk and self-taught art represents the powerful vision of America’s untrained and vernacular artists. Represented in the museum’s collection are pieces that draw on tradition — such as quilts — as well as artworks that reveal a more personal vision. The museum has reimagined its permanent collection galleries for art by untrained artists, which now display several dozen recent acquisitions and an expanded presentation of the beloved Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly by James Hampton.
americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/folk-art
Recently acquired works by Consuelo Gonzalez Amezcua, Emery Blagdon, David Butler, Ulysses Davis, Ralph Fasanella, Clementine Hunter, Dan Miller, Joe Minter, Eddy Mumma, J.B. Murray, Achilles Rizzoli, Melvin Way, Charlie Willeto, Clarence and Grace Woolsey, Purvis Young, and Albert Zahn join visitor favorites by Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Martín Ramírez, and Jon Serl. A striking presence in the galleries is a display of more than sixty sculptures and paintings by Emery Blagdon that represents his constantly changing Healing Machine. It is the second-largest installation of his work on public view in the United States.
The new installation of the Throne includes Hampton’s personal journal, written primarily in an asemic, or unreadable script, and a chalkboard still showing some of Hampton’s sketched plans for the Throne. Both are on public view for the first time; the journal will be on display for a limited time.
he Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection of folk and self-taught art represents the powerful vision of America’s untrained and vernacular artists. SAAM is one of the only major museums to clearly advocate for a diverse populist and uniquely American voice within the context of what is traditionally considered great art.
Themes
Artists who are deeply engaged with personal exploration often create works of profound complexity. Recurring themes include struggle and persistence, salvation and protection, and the reshaping of personal worlds through creative expression.
The Collection
SAAM was among the first major museums to champion and collect works by self-taught artists. This aspect of SAAM’s collection spans works that emanate from folk traditions, such as quilting and woodcarving, to highly innovative works of great personal vision. It began in 1970, after the astonishing Throne of The Third Heaven of The Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, made by James Hampton, came to light in a makeshift studio not far from the museum following the artist’s death. Several donors made it possible for this iconic work, understood as a seminal representation of African American cultural and artistic heritage, to become the cornerstone of a collection that aimed to tell an ever-expanding story of America through the art of its people.
Since it acquired Hampton’s “Throne,” the museum has been recognized internationally as a leader in championing the importance of works by artists who have no formal art training. In the early 1980s and 1990s, Chuck and Jan Rosenak donated many important works to the museum. SAAM’s largest single acquisition of works by self-taught artists came in 1986 with more than 500 works from the ground-breaking collection of Herbert Waide Hemphill Jr., which firmly established the museum’s ongoing commitment to this work. Important gifts from Bill Arnett, David L. Davies, the Kallir Family, Josh Feldstein, Margaret Parsons, Judy A. Saslow, Patricia S. Smith, Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan, and others followed. In 2016, Douglas O. Robson donated ninety-three works of art from the collection of his mother, Margaret Z. Robson.
Today, SAAM’s collection of folk and self-taught art features more than 400 artists and 1,300 works of art. The collection is one of the most visited and widely admired of its kind.
americanart.si.edu/art/highlights/folk
.....
Lord Hanuman Idol (Murti) in Blessing Mode
Worshiping lord hanuman provides strength, valor, courage, the ability to fly. Hanuman can accomplish all acts that human beings cannot. He represents the qualities of omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence.
Lord Hanuman, Rama’s eternal servant, the embodiment of devotion,whose body is as strong as thunder, whose mind is as sharp as lightening, who holds in his arms the mountain of herbs and a mace, who crushes malefic demons under his feet, who solves problems, takes away worry, inspires strength, gives hope and confidence,and who helps the devotee make his journey to the Godhead.
Lord Hanuman is an incarnation of Lord Shiva.Son of Kesri and Anjana, he is also called Maruti.He is vayu putra or son of the god of wind usually referred as Bajrang Bali or the strong one. Hanuman or the monkey god lived during the ages of Rama. He is considered to be the ultimate devotee.
Dimensions: 4.75 inches (H) x 2.75 inches (W)
Make: Made in heavy shining brass.
Weight: 800 gms
Feilai Feng (飞来峰), the "Peak that flew here", is a small rocky outcrop wihin the Lingyin Temple complex. The rocks feature hundreds of carvings, many of the Buddha, some contained within caves.
The peak is made from limestone, and stands out from the surrounding landscape. Legend has it that the peak was originally from India, but flew one night to Hangzhou as a demonstration of the omnipotence of Buddhist law.