Austin Osman Spare Drawings. Spare in a variety of ways which I will make apparent shortly. Spares work is remarkable for its variety including paintings a vast number of drawings work with pastel a few etchings published books combining text with imagery and even bizarre bookplates.
I wonder how connected symbolism allegories and sigils are to creative minds. A mathematics prodigy born in the City of London he used his knowledge of geometry as a means of inventing drawing techniques which were. Spare Austin Osman 18881956 English artist and magician known for his strange and sometimes frightening art.
For those and they are numerous who are not familiar with the work of Spare let me first provide some rudimentary background on him.
Austin Osman Spare 1886-1956 has been a guiding light both as an artist and as a founder of chaos magic. Automatic drawings can be obtained by such methods as concentrating on a Sigil-by any means of exhausting mind and body pleasantly in order to obtain a condition of non-consciousness-by wishing in opposition to the real desire after acquiring an organic impulse towards drawing. As a child he showed an affinity for art and he briefly attended an art school. 2 Austin Osman Spare was born the son of a London policeman in 1888.
