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Jean-Baptiste Regnault (French, 1754–1829)

La Liberté ou la Mort (Freedom or Death), 1795

oil on canvas

60 x 49 cm

Hamburger Kunsthalle Collection

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“The overview effect is a cognitive shift[Note 1] reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space.[2] Researchers have characterized the effect as “a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus”.[3] The most prominent common aspects of personally experiencing the Earth from space are appreciation and perception of beauty, unexpected and even overwhelming emotion, and an increased sense of connection to other people and the Earth as a whole.[3] The effect can cause changes in the observer’s self concept and value system, and can be transformative.[3]”

— Overview effect - Wikipedia

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Self-Portrait with Magic Scene (detail, ca.1635-7) Pieter van Laer 

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The Warring Triad, also known as the Statues and Gods, are, according to legend, collectively the gods of magic and the beings that created the espers in Final Fantasy VI. They are named Demon, Fiend, and Goddess.

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(Unknown). Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi. 1570s.

This powerful depiction of the twelve-armed Chakrasamvara embracing his consort Vajravarahi depicts a highly charged vision by an advanced tantric master. Potent color dynamics add tension to the picture. The blue figure of Chakrasamvara has additional heads in yellow, green, and red (symbolizing the colors of the Jina “Victor” Buddhas). With his raised hands he holds the skin of an elephant. The next pair of hands holds a flaying knife and skull cup, while the third pair holds an elephant goad and a vajra-tipped noose. The fourth pair holds the double-sided drum (damaru) and the four-faced severed head of Brahma. In the fifth pair he holds a trident and a khatvanga ritual staff. With his principal hands he grasps Vajravarahi and holds the bell and vajra. He wears a garland of freshly severed heads over his shoulders.

This is one of few Nepalese paintings to evoke so completely the energy of physical union as an expression of knowledge and method coming together to achieve enlightenment. Chakrasamvara is associated with both Heruka and Hevajra, and his iconography closely resembles that of Shiva (both have three eyes and hold a skull cup, trident, and elephant skin). Such concordance of Buddhist and Hindu iconography is not unusual and has its origins in tantrism of medieval eastern India. Here, Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi together trample a blue Bhairava and a red Kalartri, showing their dominance over these Hindu gods. -Met 

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One element from the 3D printed installation 'In the Proces of Becoming Something Else Entirely' [2024] by NVDP

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Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, The Unending Cult of Human Sacrifice, 1934

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Eerie image from the California Bridge Fire.

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Vajravarahi Five Deity Mandala. Kagyu, Karma and Buddhist Lineages. Tibet. 1500. 

རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ། སྣང་བརྙན་ཡོངས།

Vajravarahi is one of the central meditational deities of Tantric Buddhism. In the center of the composition are two crossed triangles, red in color, appearing as a six-pointed star. In fact, what is depicted here are two tetrahedrons, four-sided pyramids, merged together with the two points facing down. Mandalas are architectural plans and all architectural forms need a foundation. The foundation for all mandalas is a tetrahedron and for most of those it is a single tetrahedron. The Yoginis are most often depicted above a double tetrahedron but not in all cases. 

At the center of the tetrahedron on a four-petalled lotus is Vajravarahi, red in color, with one face and two hands. Her right hand holds aloft a curved knife and the left a skull-cup to the heart. In the bend of the left elbow a katvanga staff is held against her left shoulder. Adorned with bone ornaments and a necklace of heads she stands in a dancing posture on a corpse seat. Directly above are four seated buddhas beneath rainbow arches. Above them are two rows of various mahasiddhas and teachers of the Karma Kagyu tradition interspersed with black hat Karmapas and red hat Shamarpas.

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