Fear

Traumatic experience and creativity: René Magritte

April 4, 2022

Mirjana Stojkovic-Ivkovic Belgrade, Serbia The Lovers. René Magritte, 1928. Fair use. A painter’s creativity often results from artistic inspiration, but it can also be a manifestation of fear, pain, and suffering. René Magritte (1898–1967), a Belgian painter and great figure in modern art, expressed his thoughts and his feelings on the canvas. His unique […]

Theme

February 21, 2020

EPIDEMICS Published in March, 2020 H E K T O R A M A . The recent coronavirus outbreak inevitably brings to mind the Spanish flu, the deadly influenza pandemic of a century ago. Here we republish seven articles about this devastating viral disease that spread to the four corners of the world, killing […]

Avulsions

April 26, 2019

Torree McGowan Culver, Oregon, United States The Chasm between the Then and The Now. Photo by the author, taken near Denali National Park. There are moments in life that serve as a dividing line. These instants sharply incise our worlds into before and after, the then and the now. Moments shimmer like a crystalline […]

Maimed

January 30, 2019

Laura Wendorff Platteville, Wisconsin, United States Your friend says, Photo by Laura Wendorff think of the Amazons who cut off their right breasts in order to easily draw back their bows. But the loss is not like that. It’s more like a flower dug out of the ground, soil still clinging to its roots […]

A proliferation of monsters: art of the weird as expressions of anxiety in Britain and Japan

March 15, 2018

Steve Wheeler Greenwich, London, England Fig 1. William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 20; 1790 © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge The human fascination with fear of the unknown has been documented in art and literature across civilization for centuries. In every culture, this has manifested itself in the form of creatures as […]

January 26, 2017

Dalis Seungeun Kim USF Morsani College of Medicine, USA Fear Acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 Artist Statement: This painting depicts fear and the interplay of different regions of the brain (i.e. hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and amygdala). The serpent’s tongue is reaching toward the individual in white—haunting memory inducing fear in the hippocampus […]