Speaking of David Bowie.....

Bowie's neighbor in Switzerland, was the primo, surrealist/modernist artist Balthus.

His 30's painting 'The Street' (in the MoMA collection) visually outlines thbe perverse, dangerous, strange and 'odd' scenario of what we face everyday. I think I read a Bowie/Balthus interview a few years ago.

Time Warp

I have fond memories, as a kid, watching David Bowie on the 'Midnight Special' show. And my mother saying "Oh my, he is gross!" Funny.

Zaha Hadid Paintings

She creates images digitally, photographs the output, and paints the images in Acrylic and Chinese lacquer. 

At Galerie Buchmann, Berlin.

Mark Tansey part 2

'Doubting Thomas' painting. Inept, Insipid, 'simple' guy behavior?

Mark Tansey

Art

My favorite 'contemporary artist' is Mark Tansey. Sort of an updated 'thinking-man's' Magritte.

Depictions of the complete absurdity of 'modern life' always appeal. 

Also, scan back 50 years. Somewhat oblique/obscure, Belgian Surrealist Clovis Trouille (aside from having a wonderful name) provoked many debates with his images.

Hellish Times

Times are tough, and some people/governments appear to be evil to the core. I always liked Dali's 'Soft construction with boiled beans/premonition of civil war' from 1936.

Dali always seems to hover between 'in and out of fashion', but I think he 'got' the pain and carnage we inflict upon ourselves on a daily basis, in this surrealist masterpiece.