Sunday, December 19, 2010

The grotesque image

is what fascinates, says James Hillman.

While looking for images for a post on Christmas and the Last Judgment, I ran across this site.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I like this sort of thing, but I often think when seeing this style how much it seems a rip-off of Geiger -- the bio/mechanical combos, the near monochromaticity. I sometimes want to do things like this with my polymer clay skills, but I'd probably want to get a lot more color in.

"...is what fascinates." I've often pondered why the Hell panel of Bosch's /Garden of Earthly Delights/ is the most famous (the middle one is my actual fave.) Same for the first of Dante's three famous travel brochures. Everyone want to /go/ to Heaven, but they're much more interested in /seeing/ Hell...

Thought from A. S. LaVey: "Whether you like to admit it or not, the fear response is the one most easily aroused. Since self-preservation is nature's highest law, fear mostivates. Hence we give our attention first to sensory impressions that represent things that we once, far back in racial memory, feared. Fear is the prime mover."

--Nathan

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