Each passing year, never failing to exact its toll, keeps altering what was sublime into the stuff of comedy. Is something eaten away? If the exterior is eaten away, is it true, then, that the sublime pertains by nature only to an exterior which conceals a core of nonsense? Or does the sublime indeed pertain to the whole, but a ludicrous dust settles upon it?
“In an effort to capture the nature of Picasso’s creative process, Paul Haesaert asked the Spanish painter to apply his magical brushstrokes to large glass plates as Haesaert filmed from the other side.”
Minos judges the sinners (1857) Plate XIII - Canto V: There
standeth Minos horribly, and snarls; Examins the transgressions at the
entrance; Judges, and sends according to he girds them.
Gustave Dore’s Illustration for “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri
Images from the live action version of lovable British claymation TV show, Wallace & Gromit. Broadcast in the late 1990s, the special received negative reactions from viewers due to the fact that it was unintentionally creepy. It was never shown again.
