Today's Google logo
honors a serious artist:

Image-- Frida Kahlo in Google logo July 6, 2010

Related material:

Holy Saturday, 2004

That post quotes the words of another serious artist,
Malcolm Lowry, on a barranca, or deep ravine.
(See also Heidegger's "rift" concept.)

For a less serious rift, see the art of Kylie Minogue.