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Joaquín Torres-Garcia
There are no contradictions. Nothing is incompatible. These were the tenets that guided Torres-Garcia’s life, the life of a writer, painter, sculptor, teacher, theorist, muralist, novelist and architect; a renaissance man of the highest order. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1874, he emigrated to Catalunya, Spain in 1891 and began a career as an artist. Over the next 50 years, he would go on to found numerous schools, groups and movements including the first European Abstract art group and push the art and culture of Europe and South America to its vanguard. It was the duality of his homeland and his adopted nations that drove Torres-Garcia, and his ability to hold this duality together in a single mind. He existed between places, carrying the identity of Uruguay with him everywhere, and in doing so he was able too to carry the new and the old, the classical and the avant-garde, reason and feeling, figuration and abstraction. There are no contradictions, he said, nothing is incompatible.
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Guided by Rudolf Steiner’s indications on etheric forces in nature, researchers such as Lili Kolisko and Ehrenfried Pfeiffer pioneered picture-forming methods, including chromatography and copper chloride crystallisation. In sensitive crystallisation, an extract of plant material, milk or honey is added to a copper chloride solution under controlled conditions. As the water evaporates, intricate patterns emerge, which biodynamic researchers interpret as expressions of formative forces. Fresh biodynamic carrot juice, for example, may produce a more clearly organised pattern than juice stored for seven days. As these methods develop, they may deepen our understanding of food quality and the changes that occur through growing, processing and storage. Within biodynamics, they also offer a way to explore the living forces.
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