Magic Realism in visual art and literature

Magic Realism in visual art and literature

Magic realism, in a broader perceptive has come to signify an aesthetic style or genre of fiction in which magical elements are blended into a ...

 
continue... 24 January 2011 // Art, Literature
 
One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by ...

 
continue... 23 January 2011 // Literature
 

Nietzsche and the Artist

Art and nothing but art! It is the great means of making life possible, the great seduction to life, the great stimulant of life.
The Will to Power by Nietzsche.

In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche gave a neat description of his view of man as the unification of the two poles of creature and creator (Nietzsche, 1973, p.155). This complemented the twin tendencies of his writings to emphasize, on the ...

 
continue... 20 January 2011 // Literature
 
Collage Stories

Collage Stories

Collage has a relatively short, but incredibly rich history. Dating back to the early 1900s, it first emerged in the work of artists such as ...

 
continue... 19 January 2011 // Art
 
The trail of the meat

The trail of the meat

CHAPTER I
The Trail of The Meat

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent ...

 
continue... 19 January 2011 // Literature
 
José Luis Fariñas – Skirting the Apocalypse Exhibition: Not to be missed

José Luis Fariñas – Skirting the Apocalypse Exhibition: Not to be missed

José Luis Fariñas’s 2011 series of detailed watercolors is reminiscent of masters Hans Bellmer and Hieronymus Bosch, but more delicate and… avian? Skirting the ...

 
continue... 19 January 2011 // Art
 
Walton Ford’s paintings of the beast kingdom

Walton Ford’s paintings of the beast kingdom

Beautiful Beasts with Murderous Intent
At first glance, Walton Ford’s large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals may recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John ...

 
continue... 19 January 2011 // Art
 
Mammoth Resurrection?

Mammoth Resurrection?

Researchers in Japan say they plan to use cloning technologies to bring the woolly mammoth back to life in the next five years. Discovery reports ...

 
continue... 19 January 2011 // Nature