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The art of sleepwalking

This is going to be another short one, for small title. But that title manages to pack in the breadth of influence Dali can provide in his artwork, into a short video game puzzler. It's very premise lies on the... Continue Reading →

Dance of Darkness

The title is what many refer to 'Butoh' as. It's considered a largely experimental or avant-garde style of dance and performance theatre composed of "crude gestures" originating from Japan. While it's content is based on the pain, suffering and inner... Continue Reading →

Welcome to jam

"This sick saddo is beyond a jerk" - just one of the many way Chris Morris, dubbed the most hated man in Britain, has been described by the UK press. Usually it was for vicious satire and a dealing with... Continue Reading →

A surrealist country

Mexico is often seen as a country that embraced surrealism in the broadest sense. Breton himself described it as a "surrealist country by nature." So it seems only natural to focus on some of the plethora of surrealist artists and... Continue Reading →

Lara Zankoul: Photographing The Disturbed World

Photographers who specialise in the weird and inexplicable often come up with some of the most visually arresting images in the genre. One particular artist i'd like to focus on today is Lara Zankoul. Just a note as well, the... Continue Reading →

The bold abstract

Occasionally I find that someone can be influential without you even realising it. They can change the way you see parts of the world or art itself but you may not even remember them. This was my experience with the... Continue Reading →

Dali and Disney: a Long time in the making

I watched this again the other day and remembered how breathtakingly beautiful it was. I am in fact talking about 'Destino' - a film released by Walt Disney productions in 2003 but one that began production in 1945. It's a collaboration... Continue Reading →

Conceptual sculpture

There are two terms that seem to simultaneously bore and frustrate many people now days. That would be "conceptual" and "modern art".  They're words that bring to mind the stereotypical artist obsessed with themselves and finding meaning in meaningless things.... Continue Reading →

A serious house on a serious Earth

Once again we're extending the boundaries of 'surrealism' so that I can write about a graphic novel i'm particularly fond of. Sorry about that. But I can say that it revolves around madness, ideas of the self, of the occult,... Continue Reading →

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