David Cronenberg has perfected the art of making us simultaneously cringe with disgust and stare with furtive fascination. With an early career marked by restless explorations in low-budget horror, he is no stranger to shocking cinema -- in fact, his biggest claim-to-fame may be the notorious explodi

Avant-garde film, Erotic, Fantastic, Grotesque, Perverse, Surrealist film, Visceral

There are few artists whose animation style is instantly identifiable, no matter what the character or situation. Whether it's Bugs Bunny falling through the sky only to skid to a stop in mid-air, or Daffy Duck's bill spinning furiously around his head, people across the globe recognize the kinetic,

Erotic, Fantastic, Funny, Ironic, Sophisticated

"Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are

Biomorphic, Der blaue reiter, Fantastic, Machinistic, Playful

"Curiouser and curiouser!" was Alice's verdict on her adventures down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" (1865), a book that exposed the absurdity of adult conventions and manners above ground. Carroll (whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson) was a pathologically shy math

Fantastic, Fantasy, Layered, Mathematical, Quirky, Repetition, Surreal, Whimsical