SCAD presents «Wayward,» the inaugural exhibition of a new body of paintings and sculptures by Kent Knowles that, together, will envelop the viewer in an environment
of fantastical imagery.
Pang Ho Cheung delivers a beautifully observed portrait of a modern Hong Kong family that fuses social commentary
with fantastical imagery and his trademark cheeky humour to wonderful effect.
Drawing
on fantastical imagery and a psychedelic visual vocabulary, Kvetny tackles the digital age with what she refers to as an «ancient language that transcends time, place and culture».
Surrealists were influenced by bizarre imagery and unsettling compositions of Giorgio de Chirico, but also the work of artists interested in primitivism and
fantastical imagery such as Gustave Moreau, Arnold Bocklin, Odilon Redon, Henri Rousseau, and even Hieronymous Bosch.
Sure, the idea of giant monsters called kaiju battling against giant pilot - controlled robots sounds like it sells itself, but del Toro brought his signature style and passion for monsters and
epic fantastical imagery to bring it to life in spectacular fashion.
Full
of fantastical imagery and gee - whiz fantasy, it's like a «Mars Attacks» for the pre-adolescent set, with Jimmy leading his schoolmates into battle against a demented race of goopy green aliens.
One clear thread is the influence of surrealism, an unsurprising reference point for an exhibition focused
on fantastical imagery.
There's none of
the fantastical imagery or whimsy that we typically get from even the grittiest of SF movies: the camera does not linger over the stuff it thinks is cool hoping to get you to drop your jaw.
Despite
its fantastical imagery, the film makes no bones about what is torturing the family.
Like Zemeckis» A Christmas Carol, this animated adventure features an uneven mix of not - quite - right realism and
fantastical imagery.
Often blending elements from his personal history with
his fantastical imagery, the exhibition's title, The House of Magic Affection, references the artist's childhood home.
As striking for their overwhelmingly yellow palette as for
their fantastical imagery, Bohl's drawings invoke the signature style of British author and illustrator Aubrey Beardsely (1872 - 1898), who, along with American writer Henry Harland (1861 - 1905) co-edited The Yellow Book (1894 - 97), a leading British arts and literary periodical associated with Aestheticism and Decadence that helped define the last decade of the 19th century as «The Yellow Nineties.»
The pairing of Lucas and Yamashita reveals how each artist has transposed the perverse and
fantastical imagery of Bosch into an explicitly Surrealist register.
For this project the artist translated
his fantastical imagery into handmade paper by using an alternating set of stencils and an open approach to color.
His refusal to propagate traditional art historical hierarchies exposes new,
fantastical imagery that teeters on the peripheries of reality and deconstructs those myths still clinging to the practice of painting.
Join us for a reception celebrating «Wayward,» the inaugural exhibition of a new body of paintings and sculptures by Kent Knowles that, together, will envelop the viewer in an environment of
fantastical imagery.