Talk:Codex Seraphinianus

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[edit] Lack of Creativeness

People will think this absurd, but I believe this work lacks creativity. Why? The few pictures I could see are plainly based on the Surrealist school, namely Max Ernst's and René Magritte's works in the 20's and 30's. Well, if you remember Dali's, then Codex Serapinianus, besides being beautiful and amusing, it's not original but a mix of different artists of the past. Pure pos-modernist tongue-in-cheek art. And a VERY expensive art at that! 201.19.129.247 01:42, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

What can I say, you have to see the whole thing. People on the Internet only ever seem to focus on the same, small subset of pictures. The real thing is huge, you think you can imagine 400+ pages of that but you really can't. Some pictures are surreal. Some are abstract. Some are gross. Some are funny. Some defy classification. One critic pointed out that what Serafini did was to give his imaginary world a grammar, so you often see some of the portrayed insanities interacting together, in unrelated sections and unexpected ways. Another thing the pictures typically referenced in websites don't portray are the purely written pages: Serafini has not only created his world's own alphabet, in uppercase and lowercase, and numbering system, but also a very distinctive style for diagrams and tables, and even punctuation and mathematical notation, and standard typographical conventions. It's an all-around imaginary encyclopedia --85.18.35.21 08:51, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

This page is for discussing problems etc. with the Wikipedia article, not for discussing the article subject. --Cyclopia 15:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)