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Flex Mentallo

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    Most of all it is about despair redeemed.
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    ...and what happens to us after we die.
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    ...and hell...
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    The film is about heaven...
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    Finally, Bocklin's work clearly influenced the striking imagery of Vincent Ward's film of Richard Matheson's book "What dreams may come."
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    Bocklin's masterpiece was also the inspiration for one of my favorite novels by Roger Zelazny.
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    ...but has some creepy atmosphere.
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    The eponymously titled movie of 1942 produced by Val Lewton was not one of his best..
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    Sergei Rachmaninoff saw the painting in Paris in 1907 and was inspired by it to compose a symphonic poem, Isle of the Dead, Op. 29, which is considered a classic example of late romanticism.
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    Including H.R. Geiger.
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    But the Isle of the Dead is the picture for which he is chiefly remembered, and it remains an inspiration to this day. It has an uncanny atmosphere, yet utterly convinces us that this imagined island is a real place - even if not exactly of this world. Other artists were moved to paint homages.
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    He painted many other highly evocative landscapes.
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    Bocklin painted five versions of The Isle of the Dead, partly inspired by the English Cemetery, where his baby daughter Maria had been buried.
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    This is the haunting English Cemetery in Florence.