Gallery: The Growing Imagination

From the Contents of Spiritual Science

These paintings are by artists following Rudolf Steiner’s “path of study for painters” and “motif sketches,” a working group led in New York City by David Taulbee Anderson. — Rudolf Steiner gave these in pastels to be developed using watercolor techniques. Gerard Wagner, working with them in 1926, said that “They are exact—no accidental or arbitrary formations. They are not made in the likeness of any natural objects but the particular points of their form and movement are at the same time so adapted to one another, carry and determine one another to such a degree, only as in the limbs of a living organism,—they live.”

“Constellations” by David Taulbee Anderson

“Nature Moods: Setting Moon” by Sylvia Mandel

“Representative of Man” by Robert Funk

“Group Souls” by Kelly Beekman

"St. John's Imagnation" by Sylvia Mandel

"Group Souls" by Natasha Wood

"St. John's Imagination" by Kelly Beekman

“Faust Contemplating the Ich (I)” by Robert Funk

"Elohim" by Robert Funk

“The Round of Seven” by Akiko Sato

“Adam Kadmon” by Sylvia Mandel

“The Archetypal Plant” by Akiko Sato

“Easter” by Vincent Ropollo.

These are part of an exhibit at the Centerpoint Gallery of the New York Branch of the ASA. The painters’ working group is on Facebook: “Rudolf Steiner’s Training Path for Painters.” The full exhibit is online via www.asnyc.org