The colorful illustration for Clark Ashton Smith's Red World of Polaris is at least as "science fictional" as the narrative. Actually, I share Smith's real orientations. The commonality is a yearning for beauty that can only be experienced in terms of the Grotesque. The Grotesque is a spiritual grimace, an expression of tension like the distorted features of someone who is expressing anger or fear or passion. The Grotesque is the crystalized poetry of anguish. . . . the distillation when Beauty and Anxiety are mingled.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Art for Red World of Polaris
The colorful illustration for Clark Ashton Smith's Red World of Polaris is at least as "science fictional" as the narrative. Actually, I share Smith's real orientations. The commonality is a yearning for beauty that can only be experienced in terms of the Grotesque. The Grotesque is a spiritual grimace, an expression of tension like the distorted features of someone who is expressing anger or fear or passion. The Grotesque is the crystalized poetry of anguish. . . . the distillation when Beauty and Anxiety are mingled.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment