Man Throwing Up by David Lynch Before David Lynch became a master at making unsettling, creepy films he was a master at making unsettling, creepy drawings and paintings. He did an entire series of ill, vomiting figures: This next one is called Six Figures Getting Sick: From the same series: I like Lynch's pictures, starting with his early, unconventional comic strip, The Angriest Dog in the World: Detail I think he brings a horror to his subject that more skillful artists have missed in the previous pictures I've offered. This is not because Lynch explicitly paints vomit. To the contrary, I think his real strength is taking the most normal, innocuous elements and assembling them in a way that becomes far more ominous and unnerving than any pictures of dead bodies or skeletons. For example, this next picture is called, She Was Walking to Her Home and Then There Was Someone. Yikes! Another example: There is Nothing Here. Or the unnerving, Who Is In My House? which summons feelings of mental patient level paranoia. Even words as bland as This Is My Truck become transformed by Lynch's images. Who would've guessed that such harmless elements could be combined to create such a tone? And if such meanings can lurk beneath such safe concepts, what else is at risk? The point is, an artist doesn't need to show circling vultures or blood and guts or skeletons... a nondescript blob on a flat red ground can be more effective.
Is David Lynch a celebrity painter? Or, put another way: Would the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) be exhibiting four decades of his work, were he not 1) a world-famous movie director and 2) the most famous PAFA alum since Mad magazine cartoonist Don Martin or Thomas Eakins or maybe ever? Impossible to answer and pretty much irrelevant, as Lynch’s paintings and assemblages place his movies in the setting of his art work and not vice versa.
David Lynch a few years ago said that movies would not do anymore, which made many fans hurt. He started with music… by godflesh
Walking into the ‘David Lynch: Between Two Worlds’ exhibition is, as I expect, like stepping onto the set of the wonderously dark and quirky TV drama ‘Twin Peaks’. The famou…
Unframed. Image itself - Height: 21 Centimetres; Width: 14 Centimetres David Lynch. Negativity is the enemy of Creativity. Twin Peaks. Hand Made. Original A4 linocut print. Limited and Signed. Art. Dispatched with Royal Mail 1st Class Large Letter/small parcel. This is an original print from a lino cut designed, cut and hand printed by me. Due to the process used each piece will vary slightly, making them unique pieces of artwork. Individually numbered and signed. Limited edition run.
Exploring the suggestive imagery and symbolic language in the director’s 1986 cult favourite.
David Lynch continues to show off his unconventional creative prowess in a solo exhibition at New York’s Sperone Westwater.
I first encountered David Lynch’s work during my senior year in high school. His film Eraserhead left a vivid impression on my memories. I remember being a little bored with the film, but the images…
Nella sua ultima intervista, David Lynch parla di Federico Fellini, della necessità di 'pescare' le idee, del futuro, che sarà luminoso.
A profile of David Lynch and Rick Rubin, two pioneers in the urban and disturbing on a joint crusade for inner peace.
George Douglas seems like a pretty cool guy – he's chosen to immortalise David Lynch's notoriously tricky _Inland Empire_ and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s weird-as-hell surrealist classic "_The Holy Mountain_":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqbJHbP61PY in poster form, after all. But it's not just his penchant for the peculiar side of celluloid we're interested in – it's his deft approach to collage, a medium often done shoddily but all the more impressive when done well. George is based in Edinburgh, and alongside his film posters he also creates well-composed works formed of abstract shapes and often murky colours, which could work just as well across the pages of a creatively minded commissioning editor’s publication as on more esoteric applications.
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