Dale Frank What is this Marvelous Thing Called Art and the Blue Butterfly, 1986, acrylic & mixed media on canvas, 200 x 180 cm

Dale Frank What is this Marvelous Thing Called Art and the Blue Butterfly, 1986, acrylic & mixed media on canvas, 200 x 180 cm

A true conception of the essential meaning of spirit and nature in man shows life and art as a perpetual sacrifice of inward to outward and outward to inward; a conception which enables us to recognise this process as exclusively in favour of the inward and seiving to broaden man's individual inwardness (spirit) towards universal inwardness...

—Piet Mondrian

Exhibition Dates: 7 October – 25 October 1986

Vista Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem 

VITRIOL sulphure 


A powerfully expressive symbolism which is so unalterable in its forms that a person uninitiated may at once recognise a work of signification without knowing its meaning. 

Dissolution, Maceration, Sublimation, Division and Composition are the essential operations of the Work.

The Stone, our Great King. The thing that is the venerable Stone is hidden in the caverns of the metals. Visit the inner parts of the earth; by rectification you shall find the Stone. (Process not Object) 

"Reducing material chaos to its basic components explains by a sort of grandiose mathematica how Nature directs the birth of forms she draws from chaos." (Antonin Artaud, 'Les Tarahumaras', PP. 44). 

Settling among themselves that "Dissolution, Maceration, Sublimation, Division, and Composition", are the essential operations of the Work, while above them appear the Sun and Moon, the Dragon biting his own tail. 

There are Sorcerers who command the demons and impose obedience upon them. They summon them at their will and force them to appear to do their work, and if they should delay or fault, hold them prisoner in their dwelling, (and HOLD THEM WITHIN THE WORKS, PRISONER, WHEN THE WORK IS NOT ACHIEVED). 

ARCANA MAGORUM DETESTANDA. VENI, DIABOLE, DISCALCEA ME. 

The execrated secrets of the magicians. Come devil, take off my shoes. 

The card is not TIME or TEMPERANCE, but art, caught between the DEVIL and the TOWER. 

He who knows how to sublimate the Stone philosophically justly merits the name of Philosopher, since he knows the Fire of the Sages, which is the sole instrument which can effect this sublimation; no philosopher has ever openly revealed this secret fire; he who does not understand it must halt here and prey to God that He may enlighten him. 

A true conception of the essential meaning of spirit and nature in man shows life and art as a perpetual sacrifice of inward to outward and outward to inward; a conception which enables us to recognise this process as exclusively in favour of the inward and seiving to broaden man's individual inwardness (spirit) towards universal inwardness .... Thus understood, the opposition of spirit and nature in man is seen as constantly forming a new unity — which constantly reflects more purely the original unity of which the opposites, spirit and nature, manifest themselves — in time as a duality. (Piet Mondrian. "De Stijl", June 1918)

The Progression followed in the formation of the world is the same as that of animal gestation. Metallic generation can only be the same. The creations of works by the artist to a Work can only be the same. 

The Eternal Renewal of things in the Midst of Decay and the Symbolic Synthesis of the Great Work. 

Give me Philtres, Cazotte's Camel closes in. 

Demons Ashtoreth, Baal, Asmodeus, Belphegor, Eurynome,



as I show the symbol and the seven elements and caverns.

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Dale Frank The Whiteness, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 120 x 75 cm; enquire
The Whiteness, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
120 x 75 cm
Dale Frank The Line and Round and Round of the green Fly, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 204 x 142 cm; enquire
The Line and Round and Round of the green Fly, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
204 x 142 cm
Dale Frank The Two Saints, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 115 x 77 cm; enquire
The Two Saints, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
115 x 77 cm
Dale Frank The Aesthetic Blue Boy and the Orange Abstraction of Mind, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 100 x 70 cm; enquire
The Aesthetic Blue Boy and the Orange Abstraction of Mind, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
100 x 70 cm
Dale Frank The Spirit and the Apes Spiral to the thing thronging the Space, 1986; acrylic & mixed media; 230 x 180 cm; enquire
The Spirit and the Apes Spiral to the thing thronging the Space, 1986
acrylic & mixed media
230 x 180 cm
Dale Frank The Vine of the Prince and The Fountain and the Spirit of the City Night Wings (The Delusiuon Vine), 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 280 x 200 cm; enquire
The Vine of the Prince and The Fountain and the Spirit of the City Night Wings (The Delusiuon Vine), 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
280 x 200 cm
Dale Frank Self Portrait with Real Bubbles, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 95 x 77 cm; enquire
Self Portrait with Real Bubbles, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
95 x 77 cm
Dale Frank Fly and the Sausage Pelican Lust, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 120 x 100 cm; enquire
Fly and the Sausage Pelican Lust, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
120 x 100 cm
Dale Frank The Necessity and the Pregnant Current, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 137 x 122 cm; enquire
The Necessity and the Pregnant Current, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
137 x 122 cm
Dale Frank What is this Marvelous Thing Called Art and the Blue Butterfly, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 200 x 180 cm; enquire
What is this Marvelous Thing Called Art and the Blue Butterfly, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
200 x 180 cm
Dale Frank What is this Fantastic Fantasy of Circles Ever for The Artist, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 180 x 200 cm; enquire
What is this Fantastic Fantasy of Circles Ever for The Artist, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
180 x 200 cm
Dale Frank The Picturesqueness of those crazies and the spinning Views, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 180 x 230 cm; enquire
The Picturesqueness of those crazies and the spinning Views, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
180 x 230 cm
Dale Frank The Crazy Dog Boy, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 100 x 120 cm; enquire
The Crazy Dog Boy, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
100 x 120 cm
Dale Frank The Forest with Good Mothers, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 123 x 163 cm; enquire
The Forest with Good Mothers, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
123 x 163 cm
Dale Frank The Happiness Painting, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 75 x 120 cm; enquire
The Happiness Painting, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
75 x 120 cm
Dale Frank Mothers and Fathers and the Reel, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 76 x 91 cm; enquire
Mothers and Fathers and the Reel, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
76 x 91 cm
Dale Frank Mothers and Fathers and the Reel, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 76 x 91 cm; enquire
Mothers and Fathers and the Reel, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
76 x 91 cm
Dale Frank Mothers and Fathers and the Reel, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 76 x 91 cm; enquire
Mothers and Fathers and the Reel, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
76 x 91 cm
Dale Frank Mothers and Fathers and the Reel, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 76 x 91 cm; enquire
Mothers and Fathers and the Reel, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
76 x 91 cm
Dale Frank Mothers and Fathers and the Reel, 1986; acrylic & mixed media on canvas; 76 x 91 cm; enquire
Mothers and Fathers and the Reel, 1986
acrylic & mixed media on canvas
76 x 91 cm