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god i can never stop thinking about certain sculptures used in modern art and how they can be used to elicit the beautiful and terrible feeling of true and genuine horror in ways that a lot of horror movies can never do
like when you ask people “what is horror?” they’ll tend to give examples of monsters, of killers, of dark places, of sharp teeth and too many legs and lots and lots of blood. which is true, that can be used as horror! but i’d like to call that “the horror of being eaten/hurt/killed” or more succinctly “the horror of vulnerability”. it’s a horror that something, whether it’s a killer or a monster or some phenomenon, has the ability to cause us harm. we see large amounts of teeth and we think “that thing is going to tear us to pieces with those teeth” or we see spilled blood and we think “someone has been hurt, there’s a chance we can be hurt too by whatever spilled this blood”.
but what certain modern sculptures can do is elicit a very physical visceral reaction of a completely different kind of horror.
it’s “the horror that something is a thing that SHOULD not exist, and you are absolutely powerless to understand what it is, but it is existing in your space, right now, it is real and you cannot make it unreal no matter what you do”
or perhaps, in a shorter fashion, it’s “the horror of wrongness”
like one of the sculptures that made me feel this way is this sculpture here, named “Monekana” located in the American Art Museum in Washington D.C:
“okay,” you say, with a shrug. “it’s a horse made of wood? what’s so scary about that?”. but this is the lie of the photograph! a photograph of a sculpture rarely grasps the experience of standing next to a sculpture. you have to picture yourself walking into this room, practically devoid of people, and coming face to face with this sculpture that is very large and very real.
and your brain screams that “THIS IS WRONG. MAKE IT GO AWAY. THIS IS WRONG”, like at any moment you expect it to move, to twist its head, to follow you with eyes that aren’t simply there. it looks like a horse but it is no horse. you could almost argue that maybe it isn’t even an art piece at all, but it wandered in from god knows what kind of world and it’s blending in with everything else. maybe it’s fooling you. maybe it isn’t.
anyways, i’m not trying to say that this sculpture in particular is SUPPOSED to be scary, it may make other people feel nothing at all (or even positive feelings!), but what i’m trying to say is that feeling i had that day, when i saw this thing, when i felt this fearful instinct to stay away and not stare, it’s THAT feeling that i feel so many writers and makers of horror don’t completely understand. you don’t need teeth. you don’t need blood. you don’t need to make Spooky Scary Skeletons or chainsaw-wielding villains. all you need is to create something wrong in its existence, something to make parts of us fear the fact that we can’t entirely rationalize what we’re seeing.
that’s horror, to me.
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This is amazing
This post makes me think of Klaus Pinter’s work:
The experience of sculpture absolutely gets lost in images. I’ve walked into museums and been like WOW THE FUCK even when I knew it was coming.
I love this subject, though. I love “implication horror.” You see something, and the realization of what it means, which often comes a few moments later, is where the real horror lies—not in how splattery or gratuitously shocking it is. The wrongness of a thing in fiction, when done well, is the best. I was watching Melancholia the other day, and what a terrifying example of wrongness horror.
Anyway this is such a great post thanks for putting the whole idea into words so well. <3
This is how I feel about wind turbines (I tried to walk up to one once and felt the most inexplicable terror I’ve ever felt in my life), or most things that are ridiculously large, for that matter. Ships fascinate me but make me feel very uneasy. Certain buildings, especially if they look old-timey in any way kind of freak me out.
Examples: The Halifax shipyard building made me feel almost nauseous, and I have to drive past this cold storage building in Winnipeg every time I go to visit my boyfriend’s parents. I do not like it one bit. Also, I got to see that sculpture of a giant newborn baby last year. That was very surreal in the way that is described here.
WHAT AMAZING ADDITIONS TO THIS POST, thank you! I didn’t know of Kalus Pinter’s work and now I REALLY want to see it for myself, goodness.
Honestly, I’m so glad so many people have responded and reblogged this post with examples and stories of their own!! It’s so cool to see just what people think and perceive as this horror of “wrongness”. I also see some people saying that this is essentially the uncanny valley effect, which is only an aspect of this kind of horror - the uncanny valley primarily deals with something we perceive that looks close to human and yet doesn’t quite make it there. It’s just one subset of a really uneasy sort of horror that can be found in so many forms, which may really honestly differ from person to person.
Overall, THIS HORROR IS WIDELY UNDERUSED IN FICTION and I’m so glad to see so many examples of it posted here!!
I feel this way about kangaroos. If you really look at a kangaroo for a minute it’s deeply unsettling, they’re bipedal and they have insane abs and they move wrong, it’s too human and I get that creeping horror that this thing exists. If I look at kangaroos too long I feel like I’m going insane
Louise Bourgeois’s spider sculptures did this to me, a bit. It was less the shape than the form–the lumpiness, the uneven shine–but mostly it was the scale. Most of these examples of horror don’t feel quite so wrong when they’re at a scale we can look “down” on. But when they overshadow us, or at least when they overshadow our general certainty of control, even for just a moment, the disorientation can slip suddenly into horror.
consider the Gelitin collective’s enormous pink rabbit left to rot in the Italian alps for the next 10 years
Eoin Mc Hugh - The Ground Itself is Kind, Black Butter, 2014
Kiki Smith’s lilith sculpture is more humanoid but i feel like it belongs on this post because walking into the stairwell in the met and seeing this fucking thing was one of the most unnerving experiences in my life
If “the horror of wrongness” makes your soul sing as it does mine, read literally anything by Robert Aickman. My favorite is “The Hospice”.
This is Jeff Bondono’s Angel of Light sculpture. I first saw it when I walked into the church of Saint Mary of Angels and Martyrs in Rome (which is one of the more imposing and terrifying churches I’ve ever been in, like, St. Peter’s in Vatican has got nothing on this one) and it haunts me to this day.
Also everything by Olivier de Sagazan, the skinned-heart-man-stag from Hannibal and a room in Copenhagen’s National Gallery that’s filled with nothing but exceptionally creepy art of this calibre:
(Source: http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/highlights/niels-hansen-jacobsen-the-shadow/)
and this:
(Source: http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/highlights/niels-hansen-jacobsen-motif-from-the-story-of-a-mother/)
Also the Isle of the Dead painting by Arnold Bocklin that I’m actually planning upon getting as a tattoo at some point in the future.
I teach at a kids’ summer program that rents out a college campus for two weeks. Said campus boasts this sculpture:
Look at this fucking thing:
WHY THIS
This entire thread is fascinating, because I think it touches on the only thing that my brain quantifies as truly horrifying and it’s always things not intended to be horror.
Classic horror does nothing for me, you can show me all the teeth, bones, guts and bloodspray in the world and it won’t really scare me. Saw didn’t scare me – it was unpleasant, mind you, but not solely because of the bloodiness of it, but more from the whole feeling of “the writers of this are devoid of any pleasure”.
Imagining standing next to that wooden horse sculpture made me feel uneasy to the point of sadness. (How do you even describe that?) Also the “Ground itself is kind” sculpture up there DEFINITELY conjured a feeling of unsettled horror.
A weird/probably stupid thing that made me scared for the longest time that makes no sense (especially if you’ve lived in a big city most of your life) is very large buildings, in general. Standing right outside of a building with 5 floors makes me uneasy. Know what will never cease to make my skin crawl? Skyscrapers. Giant freaking skyscrapers.
It’s all pretty and bright in a photo, but standing outside that knowing I have to go in would be a hellish experience for me (?).
Even looking at DISTANT pictures of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai makes me feel incredibly uncomfortable, I can’t imagine standing just outside that steel and concrete monstrosity.
Class blogs!
Both my studios are requiring a dedicated blog this semester, where I post homework assignments and document my finished pieces. You can check them out at hugeducks.tumblr.com (surface) And hugeducks.blogspot.com (time) I'll also be reposting some of the same items here, each time with a link to the class blog.
Studying for finals! The semester went by way to fast... too much art to make in just a weekend 😓 📖"You May Ask Yourself" by Dalton Conley, 3rd edition
studying while I suffer through live election results nytimes.com/elections/results/president textbook is Art History fifth edition
My sketchbook doesn't make sense
Finishing up paintings for a short class.
Six Tips to Hack College!
I made this infographic based on what I learned during my first four weeks of college. Eventually I will make new infographics about how to deal with midterms and finals, but for now here are some tips to get you through the day as smoothly as possible. Good luck! -Jamie
Hi! I'm a freshman in college (Biomedicine major) and aside from taking 15 credits this semester I've recently taken up a part-time job at a tutoring center. I've managed it pretty well thus far, but sometimes I find it a bit hard to be sufficiently efficient. Do you have any time-management/organizational tips? Whether they're little study hacks or extensions like apps that you find help you stay on track. I'd appreciate them!! :)
yEEES i got u on all things time management!!!
how to avoid procrastination [ties into tm]
video dedicated to time management [apps]
how to start a bullet journal [+more bujo]
how to become a morning person [sleep tm]
how to start a planner [+more plan w me vids]
hope that gives u a good starting point!!!! good luck love <3
shading colour tips
hey yall its me the Art Mom™ to help you shade pretty
rule 1: DO NOT SHADE WITH BLACK. EVER. IT NEVER LOOKS GOOD.
red- shade with a slightly darker shade of purple
orange- slightly darker and more saturated shade of red
yellow- i think like..a peach could work but make it a really light peach
green- shade with darker and less saturated shade of blue or teal
blue- shade with purple
purple- a shade thats darker than the purple you’re using and maybe a little pink (MAYBE blue)
pink- darker shade of red
white- a really light lavender or blue..or i guess any really light colour??
black- okay listen dont use pure black to colour anything unless you want to leave it with flat colours because you cant really shade black lol
grey- a slightly darker shade of purple or blue (less saturated)
brown- slightly darker and less saturated shade of purple or red
aaaaand thats all i got lol. let me know if there is anything i should add to this list!!
If you’re a visual learner…
I made some Balls of Colour to go with Art Mom™’s post:
Study break! I've finished almost everything and a quiet weekend never hurt anybody. 📽 Into the Woods
This isn't super study related, But my dorm room is still so bare and making it feel like it's mine has been hard. I share this room with two other people who don't decorate the walls and we have the biggest room on this floor, so the room is white and more empty than the others. Everybody has fairy lights n stuff up and we have like, nothing.
I'm in college (significantly far from home) and my desk is finally usable and I have all (or most) of my supplies... So far things have been okay? I'm not huge on clubs or anything and I've had some issues making friends but I'm sure it'll be fine. Syllabus week is officially over and I have TONS of drawing homework to do and so many chapters to read. ✏️✏️📒 wish me luck!
How to Draw a Rectangle
By E. M. Hasty
Do you think drawing a rectangle is easy? If you answered “yes,” then you are wrong. Drawing a rectangle is difficult, so very, very difficult. Why, if it was so easy, wouldn’t every painting in every art gallery be just a series of rectangles? Exactly. That is why I have designed these patented steps to help you draw a perfect rectangle, every time. Let’s begin.
YOU WILL NEED:
A number-two pencil, sharpened;
A series of erasers as noted in the steps below;
A piece of paper.
STEP 1
With a number-two pencil, use the Henshaw grip to draw a pig. The more detailed, the better.
STEP 2
Using a new eraser, erase most of the detail on your pig drawing, so what you’re left with resembles the illustration below.
STEP 3
Discard the eraser from Step 2. This is now an old eraser. Get a new eraser. Erase more of the pig details. With your number-two pencil and eraser, eliminate any curves in favor of angles. Add dashed lines as shown.
STEP 4
Using your eraser (you will not need a new eraser for this step), eliminate even more pig details until you’re left with just a couple of lines indicating the placement of the head and snout. Add solid lines around the area that used to be the pig. Erase the dashed lines from the previous step, and add new dashed lines as indicated below.
STEP 5
Using your eraser (you will not need a new one for this step, but do borrow a used eraser from someone else), eliminate the last of the pig lines, so you are left with a box and the dashed lines from Step 4.
STEP 6
With the eraser you used in Step 2, erase the dashed lines you added in Step 4 until you’re left with the shape, as seen below.
STEP 7
Congratulations! You’ve drawn your first rectangle!
A Common Core art lesson.