Samurai Jack
08-31-2003, 06:28 PM
I like Michael Waterhouse. His lovely nudes placed in mythical settings evoke feelings of lust, innocence, and wonder.
Of course there is much to be said for many other artists. Frida Calo and Salvador Dali were excellent in thier own regard. I especially enjoy the immediacy of Frida's momentary experiences. She paints her emotion and senses into the work. It's amazing from my perspective as a Zen enthusiast, because it shows life from her subjective referance point, unabashed as it is!
Dali, on the other hand is sooo dreamlike and irrepressible that his work has almost become a cliche for the psychedelic era's excessive adherance to recognizable form within chaos.
And then we have the popular H.R. Giger. I find his organo-technic subject matter to be deeply disturbing both in it's obvious reference to death, and it's demonization of sexual themes. I find myself at once attracted to, and repulsed by the imagees he creates. If there truly is a christian hell, I believe Giger's work gives us a glimpse into what that experience may be like...
It gives me the willie's just writing about it! :(
Of course there is much to be said for many other artists. Frida Calo and Salvador Dali were excellent in thier own regard. I especially enjoy the immediacy of Frida's momentary experiences. She paints her emotion and senses into the work. It's amazing from my perspective as a Zen enthusiast, because it shows life from her subjective referance point, unabashed as it is!
Dali, on the other hand is sooo dreamlike and irrepressible that his work has almost become a cliche for the psychedelic era's excessive adherance to recognizable form within chaos.
And then we have the popular H.R. Giger. I find his organo-technic subject matter to be deeply disturbing both in it's obvious reference to death, and it's demonization of sexual themes. I find myself at once attracted to, and repulsed by the imagees he creates. If there truly is a christian hell, I believe Giger's work gives us a glimpse into what that experience may be like...
It gives me the willie's just writing about it! :(