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Oscar Worthy Performances In Iconic Horror Films
EJ Moreno discusses Oscar-worthy acting performances in horror…
Any film fan knows that it’s rare your personal favorite makes it to the biggest award show of the year. The Academy Awards voters are a tough crowd, especially when it comes to horror films. It feels like some major genre film is overlooked every year, and a great performance goes unrecognized by the masses.
In many ways, an Oscar nomination will “legitimize” a movie, and it could really help an actor up their game. So for this countdown, let’s look at just a few of the most outrageous horror acting snubs at The Oscars. This list’s requirements include the simple fact it needs to be a snubbed horror performance and truly high-caliber acting. We need to see performances that transcend the blood and scares and truly shakes us to our core.
Self Portrait, by Francisco de Goya
Credit: Hulton Fine Art Collection
They are some of the most disturbing paintings in the history of art. In one, a man scuttles from the darkness. His eyes are wild, popping with paranoia. In his hands is a headless corpse – his son, cannibalised. Dark blood pours from his mouth. In another, two peasants, bodies poised in combat, cudgels swinging, are ready to bludgeon each other to death. Then there is the image of a tiny dog, its head dwarfed by a massive swoosh of water, about to slip beneath the waves and drown.
Francisco de Goya, who was born 275 years ago this year, made the so-called Black Paintings, including the notorious Saturn Devouring His Son, between 1819 and 1823. He daubed them directly onto the walls of his house in the suburbs of Madrid called Quinta del Sordo, the house of the deaf man. By this time the artist was stone-deaf and blackly depressed: he had witnessed famine, revolution, political turbulence, war and the dea
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Marina Marchand opens solo exhibition at the Dollhaus II
The artist s work will be on display at 23 Cottage Street until the end of February ×
A piece by Marina Marchand among those that will be featured at the exhibition at The Dollhaus II
Titled “Les Portraits Pop Trois!,” Marchand’s show, which exhibits more than 40 new paintings, will run through Feb. 28.
According to the Dollhaus II, her works are fun, energetic with brightly bold graphic realism and bursts of color incorporating familiar design patterns of “known timeless mysticism” and occult like themes.
“A comic-like sense of drawing ability, accuracy and knowledge transformed into her individual portraits of a wide range of people who inspire her and who she draws inspiration from,” the Dollhaus II said in a press release.