Word: surrealism
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...Beyond Moore's fascinating story, the Kabbalah series represents a tour de force of studio comix making. J.H. Williams III does the underlying pencils, filling the panels with surreal details like walls that have bricks standing up on little legs and extracting themselves. One of the hallmarks of the entire "Promethea" series has been the consistently innovative and fun layouts. One double-page spread has Promethea endlessly looping around a Mobius strip. For this particular arc Williams had a new challenge: imitating wildly divergent mediums, from engraving to wood carving to watercolor with nearly entire issues dedicated to one motif...
...often that an artist working in Africa receives international attention. But William Kentridge, raised in Johannesburg, has bridged the continental gap with his visceral animations of South African life. Incorporating diverse media into his surreal films, Kentridge examines—with disturbing intensity—how ordinary people can become deadened to the violence and inequity around them. Tonight at 6 p.m., he will discuss his work at the Carpenter Center in a lecture called in “In Praise of Shadows...
...images range from the violent to the surreal, many borrowed from photographs in South African newspapers. These appear in stark contrast to the fluidity of the drawing style. The films are accompanied by carefully selected music, ranging from Duke Ellington to Dvorak. The overall formal effect mirrors Kentridge’s themes of memory and suppression, of guilt and unawareness. “I have never tried to make illustrations of apartheid,” Kentridge told revue noire, a magazine of African contemporary art. “But the drawings and films are certainly spawned by and feed...
Both plays are surreal, to say the least. In Kiddie Pool, the characters are never referred to by name and so instead are identified by their locations: Couch (Shawn H. Snyder ’03) and Pool (Robert A. Hodgson ’05). Margo says that he chose the title of his play because, as an actor, he has always wanted to be “playing with goop, sitting in a pool, climbing up things, fighting with swords...stuff like that,” rather than just standing and reciting his lines. “Kiddie pools...
...despite his size and fighting capacity, stands around as much at a loss as any of the other office workers, though at one point a security guard declares that he “looks foreign”; eventually he turns into a coat-rack, signifying that even the most surreal presences become habitual after enough exposure...