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"Balloon with an eye"
Odilon Redon, 1898.
The work of the artist is usually divided into two periods: "black" and "colored". In the "black" period Redon, fascinated by the human subconscious with its fears and nightmares, created obsessive and in some places eerie charcoal drawings and printed graphics.
"Black," Redon said, "is born in the most secret depths of the soul.
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Illustrations for the novel "A Clockwork Orange" by E. Burgess
Artist Ben Jones, 2020
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"Painting 1946"
Francis Bacon, 1946.
In a rounded room draped with curtains the color of fresh minced meat, framed by meat carcasses, a man sits comfortably. He is dressed in dark clothes, a yellow boutonniere in his buttonhole, his foot tucked on his leg.
Bacon bets on black: the top of the man's head is hidden in the thick shadow of a black umbrella. It is possible, however, that the top of the gentleman's head is simply not there.
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"Grave Goods"
Jeff Christensen, 2014.
The sight of grave goods makes the viewer think about the fact that human life is transient and death is impossible to avoid. The eerie still life is painted in a dark, ominous color, creating in the viewer a sense of hopelessness of existence, despair and impenetrable gloom. The artist deliberately distorts the shapes of individual objects to enhance the grotesque and bring the painting to the point of absurdity.
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"A Study of Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X."
Francis Bacon, 1953.
The work is a reinterpretation of Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X. Francis Bacon, a classic of English Expressionism, painted about 40 similar canvases, included in the "Screaming Popes" series. The artist changed the color of the pope's clothes from red to purple and wrote the entire canvas in dark tones. Thanks to the master's technique, the work does not evoke associations with the original portrait by Velázquez, but makes a frightening and oppressive impression.
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"Failure of Mind to Matter" Otto Rapp, 1973
There is a piece of flesh in the birdcage. A human head, which is already half decomposed, is placed on the cage. This painting is an allegory of the victory of the material world over the spiritual.
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"Inferno"
Hans Memling, 1485.
Memling is one of the brightest representatives of the northern religious school. His vision of hell is executed in ominous red-black and black-yellow colors. The demon with a triumphant expression tramples with his feet the souls of sinners, drawn very naturalistically, and they suffer, anticipating eternal torment.
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Pictures that break the brain
Illustrations by Anton Kakhidze
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Pink calves with wings, rabbits having picnics - rather strange but impressive illustrations by Chilean artist María Jesús Contreras.
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Untitled
Zdzislaw Beksiński, 1954
The only contemporary Polish artist to have exhibited at the Museum of Art. Being very optimistic and good-natured in life, Zdzislaw created mostly gloomy and eerie images on his canvases. He never titled his paintings and despised those who looked for meaning in them
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"Three Etudes to the Figures at the Foot of the Crucifixion"
Francis Bacon, 1944.
Many have tried to explain "what the author wanted to tell us with his work". Some have no doubt that the artist encoded a self-portrait in the triptych. On the left "sash" - the image of the mother: bent, subdued, faded in wax humility. On the right is the figure of the father: screaming, dominating, centaur-like. In the center is Francis himself: hissing and writhing under the oppression of paternal love.
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"The Seven Deadly Sins"
Otto Dix, 1933.
Dix's allegorical painting should have been easy for his contemporaries to read: the gnarled old woman is Greed,
the white dwarf on her back is Envy,
the dancing skeleton figure is Sloth,
the voluptuous woman with bared breasts is Lust,
the horned monster is Malice, the creepy huge head with an anus instead of a mouth, nose up and ears covered is Vanity,
and the fat guy with the pot on his head is Gluttony.
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"Grave Goods"
Jeff Christensen, 2014.
The sight of grave goods makes the viewer think about the fact that human life is transient and death is impossible to avoid. The eerie still life is painted in a dark, ominous color, creating in the viewer a sense of hopelessness of existence, despair and impenetrable gloom. The artist deliberately distorts the shapes of individual objects to enhance the grotesque and bring the painting to the point of absurdity.
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"Diomedes being devoured by his horses."
Gustave Moreau, 1865.
The painting depicts a popular mythological subject. The painter realistically conveyed the suffering of Diomedes and the greed of the horses that devoured him alive. The dark coloring gives a special ominous atmosphere.
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People strive to get what they don't have, but once they get what they want, they don't enjoy the result.
From this, the next need arises very quickly. The race begins and the quality of the goal takes on a different meaning.
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"Heads of Torture Victims"
Theodore Géricault, c. 1810 г.
Géricault set himself the task of depicting the agony of people undergoing torture as plausibly as possible. To do so, he used an expressive painting technique. Before creating his work, the French artist spent a lot of time in hospitals and morgues, studying nature.
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"Night"
Max Beckmann, 1918.
A scene of brigands raiding a family, which is associated with Germany's entry into a special period of history. In his work, Max Beckmann reflected on the brutality that overwhelmed Europe in the twentieth century.
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"Necronome"
Hans Rudolf Giger, 1976.
Everyone has at least heard of, if not seen, the cult movie Alien. But few know to whom we owe the appearance of this creature.
During the filming of Dune (1984), director O'Bannon met Hans Giger.
This Swiss surrealist's conceptual drawings for "Dune" were very influential on O'Bannon's screenplay. After discussing Giger's work, O'Bannon and Schussett realized they knew how the alien creature would behave.
The picture above is part of a series of works that inspired the look of Alien.
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"The Ghost of a Flea"
William Blake, 1820
The canvas depicts a mystical monster, a strange symbiosis of man and insect. The ghost holds an empty cup in his hand and looks inside with a greedy, hungry gaze. In recent years, the artist had become fascinated by mysticism and claimed to have seen this ghost himself.
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Vasily Golubev "What's Next?", 2010.
What's next " I'll call you" ․․․․.
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