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Celebrating 25 years of teaching Mischtechnik and other Painting methods privately and in Retreats held in the USA, Austria, Germany - Bavaria, Italy, Bermuda, Greece, Bali, Ibiza-Spain, Russia and India.

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Videographer Billy Morgan of the 'Pigment Sanctuary', captures Mantra Cora and Prof.Phil speaking on the importance of Art.

"Unleash your creativity!  No experience is necessary.  You have all that you need."  - Prof. Phil 

COMING UP in the USA  !

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OCTOBER * Grisaille Technique
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COMING UP - INTERNATIONAL !
DECEMBER * Mastering Mischtechnik

History of Art (all-art.org)

From Paleolithic Age to Contemporary Art

From the Foreword to the publication " Metamorphosis":

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"....Even when Fantastic art was strictly forbidden, such as during the period when Russia was ruled by Brezhnev, knowledge of this style of art continued to spread. One of my first students in 1952 in Paris was a very remarkable, talented person, a dancer, painter and tattoo fetishist, Vali Myers from Melbourne. We stayed in contact until her death in 2005. She and Mati Klarwein were my first followers in Paris, so it gives me great pleasure that another Australian admirer of my work should publish this book ("Metamorphosis"). Some of the names included here are very familiar to me, or have studied under my guidance and become excellent teachers themselves – artists such as Brigid Marlin and Philip Rubinov Jacobson. This book will carry a fundamental message to art lovers: Fantastic art has survived despite all official attempts to quench its spirit."                                                      -                                                                                                                                                                          

  - Ernst Fuchs 2006

From 'Metamorphosis', compiled by Jon Beinart

                        

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Ernst Fuchs 1930 -2015

                     
The creative workers who attend these seminars become an integral part of an ever-evolving community of like-minded individuals. They hail from around the world searching for inspiration and knowledge. Be it  the Mischtechnik, (German for  MIXED-TECHNIQUE of painting), or through other methods that serve personal artistic aims
.  A unique phenomenon of the OMNV seminars is that no two artists that come ever paint even remotely like the teachers, or their fellow students because they  are encouraged to find and pursue their own unique visual language. Their 'style' reflects their individuality, whatever that may be.  Studying with Prof. Phil and Mantra, many come away from the experience with an unexplained "Quantum Leap" in their work. 

At Old Masters ~ New Visions,  Mantra and I believe that art inspires personal growth which, like a chain reaction, can inspire global transformation. We believe everyone is endowed with a propensity to create regardless of whatever level of skill,  belief system or perspective they may hold.  From 1978 to 2000 or so, Prof Phil was the only  teacher of Mischtechnik in America, now many of his students, and his students' students are also teaching today. Indeed, in 1978 and for many years thereafter, there were only a handful of Mischtechnik painters practicing in the USA. In America today they number in the hundreds and globally, in the thousands. Mantra and Prof. Phil's style of teaching is highly individualized and tailored to fit each participant's unique direction and visual language. Beginning in the seminar in Inda, 2023l, Ila Rose will assist Prof. Phil and Mantra to help students understand and apply the basic steps in Mischtechnik. Ila's talent, skill and gentle approach to teaching is a great asset to OMNV and reinforces the knowledge and experience for our participants. All of this occurs in a safe and sacred space. The OMNV studio is always inspiring and magically provides  a serendipitous and alchemical process through painting, individuation and transformation and  particpants are never the same again as they awaken to new skills and vision.

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OLD MASTERS - NEW VISIONS was founded by Prof Philip Rubinov Jacobson in 1997 when his mentor and old friend, Ernst Fuchs (1930 - 2015), officially requested that he carry on his teachings internationally to pass on the knowledge of the old masters to inspire and propagate what Prof Phil calls: 'The Visionary Tribe'.  Since then, students from every corner of the world; the USA, the United Kingdom, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Australia, Egypt, Israel, the Caribbean, South Africa, Indonesia and Russia have attended the OMNV Painting seminars. Life-long friendships are forged, transformation and a growing  living - network of artists and art lovers stretches across time and the globe.  Prof Phil and  Mantra Cora  offer many versions of Mischtechnik and Oil painting. Methods and Materials of Painting, Tempera Grassa, Grisaille, Brunaille, Direct and Indirect methods and approaches to painting, and the seven elements of art are covered. Students are taught the Basics of the Mische Technique and move forward on a journey that is increasingly tailored to their own pace of learning and mode of expression. The teachers are known to even give returning students their own individual recipes for mediums, grounds, magical effects and innovative methods tailored to their unique visual language.

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Of the hundreds of students who have studied under Prof. Phil over the past five decades, including  the last 25 years in his international seminars and privately in the 20+ years before that; many names  have been added to a veritable roster of accomplished artists in their own right, highly esteemed and recognized in the contemporary art world. Madeline Von Foerster,, Kris Kuksi, Kim EvansDaniel Martin Diaz, Andrea Mary Marshall, Psynukki Sola', John Palmer, Benjamin Vierling, Nad WolinskaAmanda Sage, Andrew Gonzalez, Ila Rose, Reinhard Schmid, Cynthia Robbins, Jennifer McEuen, Tessa Mythos, Katia Honour, Carol Acquilano, Stephy Tihanyi, Marcella Di Micheleto mention just a few.

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 WHAT IS MISCHTECHNIK ?  The almost forgotten old master techniques of painting, like Mischtechnik, used by many of the Renaissance masters, was actually never totally abandoned but handed down from master to student over centuries. It was always in use in an unbroken chain, even if obscure and rarely taught at any art school or university.  Aside from the great dissemination of this knowledge by Pietro Anigonni and Prof Phil & Mantra's mentor, Ernst Fuchs and the Vienna School of Fantastic Realists, there have been a number of Masters of Mischtechnik over the last hundred years that many 'Misch Painters" today are not aware of. This has included Barthel Giles,   Otto Dix,  Thomas Hart Benton,  Paul Cadmus,  Robert S. Smulyan,  N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth, Franz Gertsch,  and of course The Godfather of Visionary Art and influencer of Alex Grey;  Pavel Tchelichew, to name but a few.  In Mischtechnik, the method itself creates a sense of a living light; an inner luminosity that reaches out to the viewer and. Such attention to the creative practice results in paintings embodying a process of alchemical transformation,  in which the physical matter of painting itself, the ground pigment, the egg, the oil, emulsions, and handmade mediums are transmuted through the agency of our craft into an extraordinary vision. Click the LINK below to follow the basic steps in Mischtechnik as demonstrated by one of  Prof Phil's former outstanding students, the highly accomplished artist, Madeline von Foerster, 

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To see ~  'An Overview of the Major Steps in a Traditional MISCHTECHNIK'  ~  CLICK HERE.

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Upcoming Exhibition - London, England

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A Chance for Happiness * London 

Mental Health Week * October 3-10, 2023

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Schedule

Tue Oct 03 2023 at 10:00 am to Tue Oct 10 2023 at 11:00 pm.  UTC  +01:00

Location

London | London, EN

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A glance at random photos capturing moments over the last 25 years of OMNV seminars, retreats and exhibitions.

Amanda Sage, Assistant, 1999 Kuenberg Castle, Austria
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