Absurd, Anime & manga, Charming, Clever, Collage, Composed, Conceptual, Cool, Dissonant, Ebullient, Electronic, Epic, Figurative, Grand, Gritty, Hallucinatory, Hi-tech, Overflowing, Perceptual, Physical force, Rhythmic, Serene, Severe

James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (April 13, 1860 – November 19, 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX. Ensor's father was of English extr

Intense, Perverse, Psychological, Representational, Severe

Biting, chewing, spitting, and blinking are only some of the bodily processes Janine Antoni employs to create her art. She sets her teeth to enormous blocks of chocolate and lard; she dips her hair in paint and mops the floor with it; she lades her eyelashes with eyeliner and patterns the canvas by b

Body art, Dreamy, Feminist, Primal, Severe, Visceral

Among the foremost members of the Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno launched a tirade against the modern world. With an arsenal of unsupported assertions strung together without obvious connecting elements, Adorno set out to critique what he called the "phantasmagoria" of commodity consumption. A c

Angry, Dark, Depressive, Dystopic, Frankfurt school, Intense, Marxism/ideology critique, Severe