Word: surrealism
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...tucked away with several other galleries in a brick building in the South End. Inside, a small, oddly shaped room is painted entirely in white, including the floors. A dog ambles into the room as I walk in, almost as white as the walls themselves. Everything seems slightly surreal...
...gallery suits the art well, for the pictures as well are surreal. They are large and richly colored, bigger and brighter than life. Most are made of several separate prints, taken and hung so that they create one image. Each seems to hover somewhere in between dream and reality, presenting a scene that makes the viewer wonder whether such a scene could occur, or whether the images are just the artist's fantasy...
...tucked away with several other galleries in a brick building in the South End. Inside, a small, oddly shaped room is painted entirely in white, including the floors. A dog ambles into the room as I walk in, almost as white as the walls themselves. Everything seems slightly surreal...
...gallery suits the art well, for the pictures as well are surreal. They are large and richly colored, bigger and brighter than life. Most are made of several separate prints, taken and hung so that they create one image. Each seems to hover somewhere in between dream and reality, presenting a scene that makes the viewer wonder whether such a scene could occur, or whether the images are just the artist's fantasy...
...commune life degenerates into a nightmare reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Richard himself loses his tenuous grip on reality, plunging into a surreal world that embodies what he so desperately sought to escape in the first place. While the cinematic details of the film are breathtaking,and the scenery positively beautiful, serious discontinuities and leaps of logic in the script leave the audience with more questions than answers by the time the final credits roll. Richard's eroding grip on reality is questionable; it is unclear what exactly causes him to go over the edge...