It isn’t often my mental palate is cleansed with the zest of variety and imagination. Time was, in my more formative years at Throttlefrith Arts Academy, I cared what my peers, my teachers, and my wife thought about my work. And this biker fellow is wearing a backwards cap and a leather vest he’s clearly a rugged outcast who long ago stopped caring about convention. We have a puzzling scene of chaos and relaxation, as this chap reclines against his mighty hog. We have an interesting landscape cast in dusky light and dusty colours. What I like about Days Gone is that it breaks the normal box art rubric. The colours here bring to mind Shenandoah Valley, by William Louis Sonntag, who painted American Landscapes in the 19th century but didn’t have the foresight to fill them with zombies. (I’ve had to deal with similar mobs myself, at the Frick, though those crowds weren’t composed of good-natured fans.) A closer inspection reveals that this biker-mad horde is actually made up of monsters – like the indistinct blobs in a Lowry landscape. Whilst you won’t find me enlightening the next generation of box art critics at this year’s London Games Festival, you will find me, as ever, toiling on the front lines of the medium!ĭays Gone, from what I can tell by glancing at the box art, is about a biker suffering from something like Beatlemania in fact, so rabid are his fans that he’s taken to fending them off with firearms. What a relief to be lifted out of the doldrums by, of all things, game box art! Doubly so after last month’s slurry, which put me in a foul mood for days. I caught a nasty little bout of food poisoning from a prawn, and there was a patch of days in which I wasn’t sure what was art and what was real – it resembled my last trip to the Tate Modern. Put simply, he’s a man that needs no introduction.Īfter being denied the opportunity to deliver a box art critique lecture at the London Games Festival by a coven of myopic bureaucrats, I felt disheartened this last month. If you are unaware of his prowess, rest assured he’s on a crusade to educate the unwashed. In between his time spent wandering the corridors of culture, Merriweather writes on a freelance basis for various publications, including Snitters and Nuneaton à la Carte. Each Month, we invite élite art critic Braithwaite Merriweather to appraise the box art of the latest game releases.
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