Visionary images of a long-term sustainable future can stimulate an accelerated movement towards sustainability.
New Yorker Inka Essenhigh paints visionary images of nature and human-like figures.
Natural objects were freely transformed into visionary images that derive their power from abstract linear design and from expressive distortion and stylization.
A future Vincent van Gogh may be able to find an audience for visionary images that bypasses the official art world.
Similarly, I've heard lots of people (as, for instance, the critic David Thomson, in our radio discussion last Friday) enthuse over the family scenes in Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" but dismiss the director's more visionary images.
"When I look into contemporary new age music, there is a commitment to providing a sound environment that is compassionate toward the listener, and visionary images that can inspire," he says from his home in Harlem, New York.
"The In/visible Cities," in which contemporary artists concoct visionary images of unrealizable cities, based on Italo Calvino's book of that name, at the Palazzo dell'Arte Triennale, 6 via le Alemagna, 39-022) 7243-4240, www.triennale.it, runs through March 9. Closed Monday; $7.50.
Mr. Refn, who can pull off stylish brutality (in the "Pusher" films and "Bronson"), shows no knack for the kind of visionary, hallucinatory image making that would render "Valhalla Rising" memorable.
