Vidocq

Leading fromalien resurrectiona) Pitof's movie "Vidocq" was released in 2001. It featured the 19th Century detective Vidocq hunting down an ancient alchemist who was using magical means to kill various people. Vidocq tracked the alchemist to his layer where hung many dozens of bodies inverted from the rafters and their blood dripped down a network of pipes and ducts into an iron womb like tank below to feed this strange featureless mirror mask...

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Did Pablo Gargallo's horse sculptures inspire Salvador Dali's Autumnal Cannibalism?

leading fromSalvador DaliTop left: Gargallo's "Urano", (1933) bottom left: Gargallo's "Petit cheval de cirque " (1932). Right: Salvador Dali's "Autumnal Cannibalism" (1936) In an issue of Tate Magazine around August 2001, Jason Rosenthal revealed a previously unacknowledged source for Dali's iconic painting 'Autumnal Cannibalism' as being Pablo Gargallo's bronze sculpture "Urano", however the body itself look so directly like the form of the...

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Giger and the tale of the Scarecrow

leading fromDevelopment of Giger's artsketch from 1961 published in the book Giger ARh+ As a child, HR Giger was told the story of a scarecrow and the impressions that it left followed him through life and he noticed that it occasionally found its way into his artwork. He thought that this stake-bound life showed him the senselessness of existence, and existence better never begun. Many of his works reflected this hopeless state of enslavement which...

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