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If anyone is visiting or in the greater Los Angeles area, this is worth checking out.


The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is pleased to announce Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters (August 1–November 27, 2016), the filmmaker’s first museum retrospective. The exhibition explores del Toro’s creative process by bringing together elements from his films, objects from his vast personal collections, drawings from his notebooks, and approximately 60 objects from LACMA’s permanent collection. The diverse range of media—including sculpture, paintings, prints, photography, costumes, ancient artifacts, books, maquettes, and film—totals approximately 500 objects and reflects the broad scope of del Toro’s inspirations.

“To find beauty in the profane. To elevate the banal. To be moved by genre. These things are vital for my storytelling,” said del Toro. “This exhibition presents a small fraction of the things that have moved me, inspired me, and consoled me as I transit through life. It’s a devotional sampling of the enormous love that is required to create, maintain, and love monsters in our lives.”


Guillermo del Toro (b. 1964) is one of the most inventive filmmakers of his generation. Beginning with Cronos (1993) and continuing through The Devil’s Backbone (2001), Hellboy (2004), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), Pacific Rim (2013), and Crimson Peak (2015), among many other film, television, and book projects, del Toro has reinvented the genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Working with a team of craftsmen, artists, and actors—and referencing a wide range of cinematic, pop-culture, and art-historical sources—del Toro recreates the lucid dreams he experienced as a child in Guadalajara, Mexico. He now works internationally, with a cherished home base he calls “Bleak House” in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

Taking inspiration from del Toro’s extraordinary imagination, the exhibition reveals his creative process through his collection of paintings, drawings, maquettes, artifacts, and concept film art. Rather than a traditional chronology or filmography, the exhibition is organized thematically, beginning with visions of death and the afterlife; continuing through explorations of magic, occultism, horror, and monsters; and concluding with representations of innocence and redemption.

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I might be freaked out :eek: but I like the opportunity to learn :rose:

Not too grotesque, more!
Push my limits :p

And I love the mermaid, MD! :heart:

I promise not to soil the thread with anything that may be viewed as obscene.

( I like the mermaid too :D )

Something contemporary
http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/826746/81169466.jpg

something classic
http://blog.privateislandparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/scary-art-peter-paul-reubens.jpg

and something that photos can't do justice.
https://seenaija.com/app/uploads/2016/01/1-scary-art-seenaija.jpg
 
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is pleased to announce Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters (August 1–November 27, 2016), the filmmaker’s first museum retrospective. The exhibition explores del Toro’s creative process by bringing together elements from his films, objects from his vast personal collections, drawings from his notebooks, and approximately 60 objects from LACMA’s permanent collection. The diverse range of media—including sculpture, paintings, prints, photography, costumes, ancient artifacts, books, maquettes, and film—totals approximately 500 objects and reflects the broad scope of del Toro’s inspirations.

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This continues to intrigue me.
Should anyone discover what these are, I would very much love to know :D
 
Yeah.... It's like he sat across from the artist and unbeknown to him he was being drawn while he drank and had a good conversation. You know, the kind where you just feel fantastic after but you don't really remember what you had talked about because none of it was of any consequence. But maybe I'm reading too much into it...
 
Swimming hole + dragon = instant hot tub :D

And quite possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen a trashbag do!
Magic :p
 
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