#adam pijnacker

[rubenista]

Adam Pijnacker, Boatmen Moored on the Shore of an Italian Lake, 1650 - 1670. Oil on canvas on panel, 97.5 × 85.5cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

[wrathofgnon]

“While we are swept onward upon the stream of physical time, we move at the rhythm of the inner processes constituting physiological duration. Indeed, we are not mere grains of dust floating on a river. But also drops of oil spreading out over the surface of the water with a motion of their own, while being borne along by the current. Physical time is foreign to us, whereas inner time is ourself. Our present does not drop into nothingness as does the present of a pendulum. It is recorded simultaneously in mind, tissues, and blood. We keep within ourselves the organic, humoral, and psychological marks of all the events of our life. Like a nation, like an old country, like the cities, the factories, the farms, the cultivated fields, the Gothic cathedrals, the feudal castles, the Roman monuments of Europe, we are the result of a history. Our personality is enriched by each new experience of our organs, humors, and consciousness. Each thought, each action, each illness, has definitive consequences, inasmuch as we never separate ourselves from our past. We may completely recover from a disease, or from a wrong deed. But we bear forever the scar of those events.”  — Alexis Carrel

[blogdemocratesjr]

A Sherpherdess with Animals in a Mountainous Landscape by Adam Pijnacker (1673)

The freeing of the ego, however, is not necessarily a question of psychological illness, because another state of affairs is also possible. In such an instance it is not a question of illness in the abdomen but rather a ‘switching off’ of its normal activity. This is what happens in the great majority of cases of hypnotic consciousness. The functioning of the system of ganglia in the abdomen is put into a state — either by natural causes or by all kinds of mesmeric effects — in which it is unable properly to keep the ego under control. Thus in this way, too, the ego has an opportunity to become more involved with its environment. It is not embedded in the system of ganglia and is therefore free to make use of channels to the outside world which enable it to perceive from a distance all kinds of processes in space and time which, when it is embedded in the system of ganglia, are processes which it cannot normally perceive.

—Rudolf Steiner, The Karma of Untruthfulness vol. 2: Lecture XIX

See also The Twelve Senses, Forces & World Views

[lionofchaeronea]

Bridge in an Italian Landscape, Adam Pijnacker, ca. 1653-54

[flemishgarden]

Adam Pijnacker - Boatmen Moored on the Shore of an Italian Lake

1670

oil on canvas

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

[lionofchaeronea]

View of a Harbor in Schiedam, Adam Pijnacker, 1650-52

[art-of-eons]

Barges on a River by Adam Pijnacker. Circa 1665.

[art-of-eons]

Italiaans rivierlandschap waarin een schuit aan de oever van een rivier beladen met vracht en passagiers gereed wordt gemaakt om te vertrekken. Op de voorgrond heeft een herder een bok in het water bij de horens gevat.

Adam Pijnacker

1650-1655