The Invisible Empire series by Juha Arvid Helminen depicts figures of authority in all black, against dark or black landscapes with their faces obscured. The series revels in darkness, anonymity and brutality. I’ve had an irrational fear of the potential that “the crowd” become (in experiences as mundane as a sports game) since I was young. A few years ago […]
Blending themes of pop culture with techniques reminiscent of the old masters, Mark Ryden has created a singular style that blurs the traditional boundaries between high and low art. His work first garnered attention in the 1990s when he ushered in a new genre of painting, “Pop Surrealism”, dragging a host of followers in his […]
Wayne Barlowe is a world-renowned concept, creature artist, and author. Barlowe has created concept art and creature design for films such as Avatar, Harry Potter, the RIPD, Hellboy, and Pacific Rim. He studied at Cooper Union where he started his career painting covers for Sci-fi and fantasy novels. He’s written and illustrated guides exploring life […]
Jaroslaw’s surrealistic work includes three main themes. Surrealistic, epic dreamscapes. Strange skin-monsters. Erotic fantasy art. (Not  included in this post.) Much of his work is preoccupied with the concept of time; clocks are the subject of a fourth sculptural series. http://kukowski.pl/
Patricia Benitez’s Uncanny Valley series takes it’s name from the hypothesis in the field of robotics which holds that “when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers.” Coined by professor Masahiro Mori, who proposes several explanations for the revulsion and fear […]
