Too Weird to Live; Too Rare to Die

Featured artists: Frida Kahlo, Dimitri Tsykalov, Sylvia Ji, Salvador Dali, Audrey Kawasaki, Diego Rivera, 

Damien Hirst, Edvard Munch Harmen Steenwyc, & Pieter Brugel the Elder

About the exhibition: The show is about pieces of art that are out of the ordinary. I choose works that would be considered strange to the average person and would cause a big intrigue to the audience. I want people to see the exhibition and say what is the meaning behind this piece and how could someone sane create this. I wanted to focus on works of art that were macabre inspired. Macabre means “gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible”(www.dictionary.com). I wanted to focus on art that was shocking and grim. I think that really sparked my inspiration was The movie/novel “Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas” and the music of Avenged Sevenfold. Fear & Loathing is such an off the wall movie/book and I think that it takes a certain type of person to fully enjoy it but I was intrigued but how strange it was which is a theme I tried to incorporate into my exhibit. With the music of Avenged they tend to have very macabre songs such as “A Little Piece of Heaven” and this was something I wanted to add as a theme because I feel as though people start to get strange when they speak of death or anything grim and that’s those are the type of art pieces I wanted to represent, strange and grim.