Sunday, June 26, 2016

Art quotations

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Michelangelo

"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels."
Francisco Goya

"Everything in art is an aside."
Ray Bradbury

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
Paul Cezanne

"In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility."
Joseph Conrad

"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."
Pablo Picasso

"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."
Pablo Picasso

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."
Edvard Munch

"Nothing exists; all is a dream. God — man — the world — the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars — a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space — and you! ... And you are not you — you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought."
Mark Twain

"Whether the wholly harmonious mind exists - the mind equally balanced between thought and feeling, between intuition and sensation - is perhaps doubtful, but surely that is the ideal towards which we ought to strive. Only such a mind can appreciate the fullness and richness of life. If we come to the conclusion that this complete and harmonious being cannot exist in our modern form of society, then our aim should be to change that form of society until such a life becomes possible. In this great aim, in which the energies of humanity will be absorbed for centuries to come, a right understanding of the nature of art and of the function of the artist is fundamental."
Herbert Read: To Hell with Culture (1963)

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Valo - Light


Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2016.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Demoni - Demon


Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2016.

Friday, June 17, 2016

Lampi - Pond


Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2016.

Favourite films top 50

My favourite films based on close emotional relationships. From 1920s to 1990s and mainly horror. As a child I drew and painted reproductions of horror posters. It was the first time I started imagining all kinds of moods, moments and visual ideas. Usually the plot wasn't the most impressive thing. Not much has changed.

1920 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1928 La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
1932 Vampyr
1933 Duck Soup
1954 Rear Window
1955 Les Diaboliques
1958 Vertigo
1960 Peeping Tom
1960 Psycho
1961 The Innocents
1963 I tre volti della paura
1964 Sei donne per l'assassino
1964 Kwaidan
1964 Onibaba
1965 Repulsion
1966 Operazione paura
1968 Kuroneko
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 Rosemary's Baby
1970 L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
1971 A Clockwork Orange
1971 Duel
1972 Non si sevizia un paperino
1973 The Exorcist
1974 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 Black Christmas
1975 Profondo Rosso
1975 Dog Day Afternoon
1976 La casa dalle finestre che ridono
1976 The Tenant
1976 The Omen
1976 Carrie
1977 Eraserhead
1977 Suspiria
1978 Dawn of the Dead
1979 Life of Brian
1979 Alien
1980 The Shining
1981 The Evil Dead
1982 The Thing
1983 Videodrome
1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street
1985 Re-Animator
1986 The Hitcher
1987 Angel Heart
1987 Hellraiser
1989 Tetsuo
1990 Misery
1992 Candyman
1992 Fire Walk with Me

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Tulvia - Floods


Electronic / experimental.
Music, production and image by Rinta-Perälä

https://soundcloud.com/rinta-perala/

Monday, June 6, 2016

Ennuskaste - Omen Dew


Electronic classical.
Music, production and image by Rinta-Perälä

https://soundcloud.com/rinta-perala/

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Vanhus - Elderly


Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2016.