![]() ![]() ![]() While painting tends to sculpture, acquiring a three-dimensionality given by the violent and refined breakup carried out by the artist, in parallel the sculpture seems to liquefy or dig itself from the inside, almost looking for the dematerialization of matter and form itselfįrom dissolution to rebirth, through the continuous research that from the tragedy of death yearns for life, reached here in art, paradoxically, with the partial destruction of what was previously created. ![]() ![]() With violent interventions, he punches, scratches, literally peels the paint through a sudden or meticulous gesture, giving life to new works that have their roots in the tradition of art history and then arrive at the expression of torment with a contemporary language. 1977 Follow 2.4k Followers Bio Nicola Samori’s dark, Baroque -inspired oil paintings are skillful reproductions of classical portraits and still lifes on canvas, wood, or copper, purposefully destroyed to negate classical representation and question painting itself. Starting from the meticulous copy of the works of great masters, especially from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where the clash between light and shadow dominates, Samorì transforms them and reinterprets them with the troubled spirit of our century. ![]()
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![]() She could find her way around her native San Francisco blindfolded, but the Pennsylvania countryside was another story. Maybe that was a sign that she was approaching civilization. ![]() The pastures on either side of the road gave way to fields of cornstalks, yellow and brown in October. The truth was that she'd spent the past two weeks feeling wary of the open friendliness offered by these relatives she'd never met before. Both he and his wife had volunteered to drive her, or to get one of his siblings to drive her, but she'd insisted she could do this herself. She could always phone her cousin Gabe, but she shrank from having to admit she couldn't follow a few simple directions. She frowned down at the map drawn by one of her numerous Flanagan cousins, and decided that squiggly line probably meant she should turn right. ![]() Maybe this wasn't really the wilds, but the only living creature she'd encountered in the last fifteen minutes was the brown-and-white cow which stared mournfully at her from its pasture next to the road.Ĭlearly the cow wasn't going to help. Fiona Flanagan peered through her windshield, trying to decipher which of the narrow roads the tilted signpost meant. She was lost in the wilds of Pennsylvania. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heaven sent an angel named Lita to help him train for ten years until they returned. He can be as Ruthless as a Death God to those who threaten him or his close ones.Įxtraordinary Genius, has read every publicly available book on Earth, learned every language as well as far surpasses any blacksmith in experience and technique across the multiverse.īecause he had an innate concealment ability that can escape even the God's eyes, he was left on Earth, alone, while everyone else was sent away to other worlds to prepare for the Great Cataclysm. Extremely cautious and prudent, he only cares about his friends and relatives. With the blessing of the 'Gods' his hair color also changed many times. ![]() With every class advancement, with every new level up, he became better looking. At first, IlHan was a normal-looking guy, but with the absorption of high-level records, his looks improved drastically. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She had been preparing herself to go to Alex’s bedside - normally Eerie would be leaving right about now, so if Emily timed her arrival right, she could avoid bumping into her in the lobby on the way out. Numb with surprise, Emily let the curtain drop back down, numb and a little queasy. ![]() She had seen it take shape, after all stuffed in the knitting basket Eerie arrived and left with when she visited Alex at the hospital. She did not recognize either of them at first, but then she saw the hat the taller one was wearing, and that she knew immediately. Instead, it was the two people strolling through the quad, holding hands, who were ruining the holiday season for her. George Muir, after all, was not high on Emily’s list of favorite people, expressing disappointment in Emily so consistently that she had resigned herself to it. Not because her father would not like the tiepin. This was, in all fairness, saying something when it came to Emily Muir. Emily had just finished tying a bow on the present she’d selected for her father, a tie-pin he probably wouldn’t like that she had bought in an antique store during a visit to Taos, when she pushed the curtain aside to see if it was snowing, and it officially became her worst Christmas ever. ![]() ![]() Aurelia is entangled in a centuries-long game of love, power, and war, and if she can't break free before the Tribunal makes its last move, she may lose far more than her crown. But there's something deeply amiss in her new home, too, and soon she finds herself swept into a deadly new mystery with a secretive prince, the ghost of an ancient queen, and a poison vine called Bloodleaf. ![]() Alone and adrift in an enemy kingdom, Aurelia plans her revenge against the Tribunal, desperate to bring down the dark organization that has wrought terror upon her people for hundreds of years. When a devastating assassination attempt reveals her magical abilities, Aurelia is forced to flee her country with nothing but her life. ![]() Surrounded by spirits and burdened with forbidden magic, she lives in constant fear of discovery by the witch-hunting Tribunal and their bloodthirsty mobs. ![]() About the Book "Enchanting, visceral, and twisty." - New York Times best-selling author of Ash Princess, Laura Sebastian " Bloodleaf feels like a classic in the making." -Sarah Holland, New York Times best-selling author of Everless Now in paperback, Bloodleaf is a roar of a dark and luscious epic fantasy that's layered with heady romance, bloodthirsty magic, and ghostly intrigue-an absolutely wicked delight.īook Synopsis Aurelia is a princess, but they call her a witch. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was having trouble finding the humor in a situation where the drunken idiot behind the wheel didn’t have the good sense to hand over his keys or admit he was lost. Lex giggled in the backseat and Soo-Lee did, too, because if Lex thought it was funny, then surely it was. “I’m taking a shortcut,” Chazz told him, an edge to his voice cutting beneath his words like a razor. ![]() came real early once you passed the midnight hour. “You missed the turn-off,” Creep pointed out, getting nervous because he had to cover the morning shift at Donut Den back in the city and five a.m. Or it wanted people to suffer.Ĭhazz was too drunk to drive by the time they hit Highway 8, only no one was saying so because although he was a real mellow, easy sort of cat when he was sober, when he was drunk, he was mean as skunk piss and if you didn’t want that spraying into your eyes, you learned to keep your mouth shut and go with the flow like a turd being sucked down a toilet. Like pieces of a die-cut puzzle, everything simply fit into place in that purely seamless and smooth sort of way that fate managed when it wanted something to happen. It wasn’t until later that Ramona realized how neatly it all fit together. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.įind out why DarkFuse is the premier publisher of dark fiction.Ĭheck out the author’s official page at DarkFuse for a complete list: Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. ![]() ![]() The story took the paranoia associated with McCarthyism and how it would affect the costumed heroes. In the story, Batman changes it after frightening a child he was trying to help, rather than the criminals he wants to scare. It was easy enough with Legacy Characters like Green Lantern, but Batman went from a dark and menacing figure who wore grey and black into someone more kid-friendly with blue and yellow highlights. Part of this experiment was Cooke trying to figure out a reason why various characters changed in the switch between The Golden Age of Comic Books and The Silver Age of Comic Books. The plotline is broad-ranging, featuring dozens of characters in the DC Universe including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Martian Manhunter, and many more. Even the art work itself is very similar to comics of that era, with only the layout being modernized. ![]() Instead of reimagining the classic superheroes as they would be today, Cooke created a story firmly set in the 1950s and took the superheroes as they were in The Golden Age of Comic Books and made them believable. ![]() A comic book series written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke, later adapted as an animated film. ![]() ![]() In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. ![]() In 1918, someone seriously wounded him, who returned home. People consider many of these classics.Īfter high school, Hemingway reported for a few months for the Kansas City Star before leaving for the Italian front to enlist. Survivors published posthumously three novels, four collections of short stories, and three nonfiction works. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two nonfiction works. ![]() ![]() Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. Terse literary style of Ernest Miller Hemingway, an American writer, ambulance driver of World War I, journalist, and expatriate in Paris during the 1920s, marks short stories and novels, such as The Sun Also Rises (1926) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), which concern courageous, lonely characters, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1954 for literature.Įconomical and understated style of Hemingway strongly influenced 20th-century fiction, whereas his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. ![]() ![]() Grade schoolers cared much more about Godzilla. And even younger, trying to see girls in their underwear when their sister had a sleepover birthday party. I know by the time I was in junior high, boys would tell me that they loved sneaking their father’s skin magazines. What I did know was that my friends were looking at girls the same way. I myself was terribly naïve and I had no real grasp that I was noticing something or feeling something any different than anyone else. Especially if he grows up in an environment where for one reason or another, admitting what he is feeling might not be safe. Although like me, he might not realize what the heck it was he was feeling. A lot of young men do know what it is they are feeling. ![]() But I am here to tell you that this is pretty much the way it is. ![]() ![]() There is nothing wrong with what he is feeling. Maybe you’re thinking that someone that young doesn’t know he’s gay. Maybe upset thinking of such a young “innocent” boy looking at another male. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Accordingly, this presentation argues that Mazzucchelli both highlights and challenges limitations of the stereotypes through color. Shifts in the colors then show characters’ complexity beyond tropes, thereby emphasizing the distinctions between cultural experiences without limiting the possibility of transgression. Although the typification may appear reductive, the clear boundaries it outlines between characters highlight their different experiences as a result of their identities. Mazzucchelli reifies the rigidity of these stereotypes by confirming the contrasts between characters through the colors depicting them. ![]() ![]() Characters such as Asterios (a white male university professor who is not as smart as he thinks) and Hana (a shy Asian American woman who does not recognize her own brilliance) embody particular tropes, all of which depend on racial and gender identities. This presentation examines the relationship between the use of color and characters’ embodiment of stereotypes in David Mazzucchelli’s “Asterios Polyp.” As Randy Duncan notes in “Image Functions: Shape and Color as Hermeneutic Images in ‘Asterios Polyp,’” colors, and the transitions in their usage over the course of the comic, illustrate the main characters’ psychological evolutions. ![]() |