Scary Weird Paintings

#1

HI everyone ,
I am trying to search for artists works that potrays something really weird and horrific.
Thanks in advance for the links.

#2

The only obvious artist I can think of right now.
H.R Giger

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#4

Art by psycotics

http://www.epub.org.br/cm/gallery/gall_leonardo/fig1-a.htm

#5

Joel-Peter Witkin
This guys photography is bloody incredible… Just click on the pictures to go forwards in the gallary

edit Just wanted to mention… I would assume that most people looking at images in this topic are gonna be prepared for the worst… but just incase, be warned that theres some pretty graphic stuff in the above link…

#6

heres an artist thats amazes me with his artwork.
Beksinski

#7

I would definitely say Giger. Also look at the surrealist artists like Dali and Magritte. Also have a look at Hieronymous Bosch. Heres one of his works: Hell http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/bosch/delightr.jpg

#8

Ivan Albright.

If you have a chance, go to the Art Institute of Chicago and see his work. He was a medical illustrator during the first World War and apparently saw some things he could not let go, which stuck with his work. He used combinations of very dark and very bright colors and when you see his paintings up close there is an almost psychotic attention to detail in them. You look at his paintings and get a feeling he was really disturbed by something and vented it with a paint brush. You can find pictures of his work online, but looking at even high res photos does them zero justice. The first time I saw his work was like 20 years ago and it made a huge impression on me. He clearly wasn’t doing this work for anyone but himself, and you get the impression that he really needed to do it. His subject matter isn’t gory, or shocking or full of meaningless symbolism, just disturbing when you try to envision the mindset of a person who paints the way he did.

#9

Mark Ryden

http://www.markryden.com/paintings/index.html

Brilliantly weird. Amazing art IMHO. Make sure to look at the meat show.

#10

Holy Lord that was awesome.

#11

this guy always gets me goin… amazing painter… still alive

if you’ve ever seen “The Cell”… alot of the dreamscapes are based on Odd

Odd Nerdrum
http://www.nerdrum.com/

edit: hah woah Ryden… great stuff… ive had wallpapers of his stuff before but never new the artist name… gotta mark that down

#12

I clicked on all links. Ok time to go now before i get depressed. :sad:

#13

dont click that link… or at least dont go throught the whole gallery

#14

Great links, heres two more

Francis Bacon
http://www.francis-bacon.cx/date.html

Clive Barker
http://www.clivebarker.com/html/visions/gallery/gall.html

#15

WOW I love such work
I am actually inspired instread of depressed!
Keep em coming! this thread is surely in one of my favourite links!

#16

here’s a few more…

dave mckean, also known as the guy who made all those really cool “sandman” covers

http://www.mckean-art.co.uk/

the brothers quay, animators

http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/directors/tbrothers/

jan svankmajer, artist (he dislikes being classified as an animator)

http://www.illumin.co.uk/svank/

john jude palencar, artist/illustrator

http://home.att.net/~shadowlandhome/palencar_frame.html

scott radke, maker of incredible marionettes

http://www.scottradke.com/

#17

http://www.helnwein.com/
http://www.vomitus.com/
http://www.luetke.com/

#18

mark ryder

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umm… why? I mean, sure, his work can be pretty macabre and grotesque… but, at least I think, that it can be really beautiful and dreamy at the same time. His work is easily the most creative stuff I have ever seen :slight_smile: I am aware though of the possible offending nature of the work though, and due to Cgtalk’s policy on that sorta stuff, if a mod wants to delete that link, then thats cool :slight_smile:

#20

Do a google search for surrealism http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=surrealism

Of surrealist, Dali is probably most well known… http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=dali Dali hung out with a lot of artsy freinds and not so artsy friends and acted weird a lot… but I think that a lot of it was pretend craziness…

another slightly crazy artist that did less surreal stuff, but still was a little out there was Andy Warhol… that guy was a massive manic depressive that was in depressive mode a lot if you read a lot of his writings and interviews…

Hieronymus Bosch is one of the weirdest artists from the medieval days… his work is probably the first stuff that could officially be called surrealist painting even though he was painting for a reason - depicting hell…
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=Bosch%2C+Hieronymus&btnG=Search

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There’s a lot of other weird stuff out there… MC Eschers stuff could even be considered weird though all he did was create illusions that would be impossible to exist in real life…