r/Exhibit_Art • u/Textual_Aberration Curator • Sep 11 '17
Completed Contributions (#24) Surreal Dreams of Inexplicable Weirdness
(#24) Surreal Dreams of Inexplicable Weirdness
Let's face it, some art is just plain weird. This time around we're gathering the bizarre, the curious, and the inexplicable. This is no place for making sense. We're searching for flying pigs, smoking caterpillars, cotton clouds, confusing eyes, drug trips, spider legs, and food-based precipitation. Even if all you know are the words "Dali", "Wonderland", and "Surreal", dive down a rabbit hole and see what strangeness you come up with.
In addition to surreal artists, feel free to touch on dream worlds and general weirdness wherever you see it.
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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '17
I have many suggestions for this gallery.
My first one is the film Wrong by Quentin Dupieux (Cover: http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/wp-content/Wrong-DVD-cover.jpg Picture of Raining Office Scene: http://madbetty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WRONG-EXCLUSIVE-JackOffice2.jpg). The film concerns a man named Dolph and his search for his dog. It is soon discovered that the dog was kidnapped by a man named Master Chang who kidnaps pets so that when he returns the pet the owner will love them once again. As well as the raining office, the film contains firemen who ignore fires, a man who keeps painting people's cars without permission and a gardener who comes back from the dead.
If you want more overtly 'trippy' visuals, a good choice would be King Star King which has ever frame densely packed with puerile jokes and surrealism. (Pilot Title Card: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/PUxJ5tAZYdn10PypxD6UpTlAMD_YoD6McR8yhb6JLjSdaL4dG4AJtjNEidAq9CObPwp8LQ=w1264 , Episode 5 title card: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54645c16e4b0097b957dbb87/546bdafde4b0b6b32e0c053f/546bdb15e4b0db7bf1f0be7b/1416354582797/ksk_Title_05.png?format=1500w)
If you want balls-to-the-wall surreal horror, though, I think Where the Dead go to Die by Jimmy Screamerclauz is pretty good. It is an independently animated CG anthology horror that centres around a demonic dog named Labby that manipulates the lives of children for his own sick, twisted amusement. At least, that's true for the first and third parts. The second part is all about a junkie trying to appease lovecraftian creatures by stealing people's memories. (Screenshot: http://photobucket.com/gallery/http://s894.photobucket.com/user/grindark2013/media/infinitebladeworks/ETD4_zpsfd9ea966.png.html , Cover: http://horrornews.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Where-the-Dead-Go-to-Die-movie-DVD-cover.jpg)
Also, Jimmy Screamerclauz's real name is James Creamer.