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Sarah Louise Davey’s Grotesque Menagerie

L. — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:19:59 +0000

These disturbing and grotesquely beautiful sculptures by Sarah Louise Davey are made of vividly, violently, luridly, fantastically painted ceramic, embodying creatures with bold, tortured, glazed stares, and strange growths either covering their eyes or framing them like sick, rotten petals of flesh carved out around an astonishingly open iris. It is unnerving and startling, garish and obscene, and yet has a delicate and whimsical touch, and is quite beautiful. They appear simultaneously textured and not, curiously both 3D and 2D – they look like paintings on porcelain, and the bold, dark lines sketching their features out against the chalky whiteness of the ceramic hold a horrific and fascinating quality.

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Horror Artist Karl Persson

L. — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:47:44 +0000

Karl Persson uses a glossy realism to depict horrific themes and evoke the un-plumbable depths of pain, madness, and misery.

Neo-Victorianism + Japanese Inspiration + Consumer Whoredom: The Art of Alex Gross

L. — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:27:06 +0000

The Victorian era, traditional Japanese art and contemporary Japanese pop culture, super-consumer culture, mid-century America, classic Christian iconography, poster art, ironic/mystical symbolism, and ice cream cones all mix together in Alex Gross’ bright, colorful brand of Pop Surrealism.

Another trailer for Alice: Madness Returns

L. — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:28:24 +0000

Here is a trailer, featuring gameplay, for Alice: Madness Returns, which was released earlier this month (making it the fifth and final trailer).

Alice: Madness Returns is released in the U.S. on June 14, and in Europe on June 16, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

I’m so looking forward to this!

Agostino Arrivabene

L. — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 05:44:07 +0000

>>Agostino Arrivabene<<

“A Monsoon Litany”

L. — Wed, 18 May 2011 06:57:36 +0000

A Monsoon Litany by Luki for DEW Magazine

via Design Scene

Liliroze’s Colorful Dream Photography

L. — Sun, 08 May 2011 04:14:41 +0000

>>Liliroze Photography<<

Gregory Crewdson’s Domestic Ophelia

L. — Sun, 01 May 2011 19:54:57 +0000

{An image from Gregory Crewdson’s Twilight series}

Margriet Smulders’ Exquisite, Paradisaical Flower Photography

L. — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:25:25 +0000

These are just gorgeous. Violent and serene-looking at once, extremely vivid as well as unreal.

>>Margriet Smulders<<

via Coilhouse

Poor Little Dears: The Sinister and Mysterious Childhood Depictions of Hikari Shimoda

L. — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:54:12 +0000

Hikari Shimoda‘s creepy paintings of children depict them as sweet, sinister, wounded and abused. The eerie mouths, asymmetrical, strange little faces and one-eyed appearance (often one milky eye, one bruised and bloody-looking) of these alien but painfully familiar little beings, rendered in bright or pastel, almost child-friendly, but also quite subtly mixed and profound, colors, all serve to give a creeping sense of the corruption of innocent childhood, an inversion of the saccharine bliss associated with little children.

As Shimoda explains in her artist’s statement, “Contrasting with my daily cheerful demeanor, my unexpressed emotions accumulate inside of me. I feel like an outsider, isolated, lost, and have a hard time building relationships with others, but I never give up being part of the world. The secret to survival? Observe, feel, and listen to yourself. I stand in front of my canvas and confront it, releasing all the built-up unverbalized emotions, the chaos, and the unnoticeable darkness. Even though I know my contrasting side will be shone in the light with no place to hide, I paint to live and to be connected in this world. I accept and understand myself more through my artistic processes than anything else. As I know myself more, I can see others better.

My motif is mainly children. They are nobody, and yet, they could be somebody. They could be me as a small child, or they could be somebody’s inner child. Children, as ambiguous of an existence as they are, reflect my personal world and the universal problems that society today has.”