Art pieces3/24/2023 ![]() ![]() It helps to know that the title is sometimes pluralized and called Spanish Dancers at the Moulin Rouge. It may be hard to see what's creepy about this particular work at first. While Boldini is primarily known for his portraiture, he also did paint some original works. Giovanni Boldini - Spanish Dancer at the Moulin Rouge Even during the artist's lifetime, the work was so popular that he created an even creepier alternate version. But the dream-like, surreal quality of the piece has kept its legacy alive. The incubus, by today's standards, looks a little like a cartoonish gremlin, for example. Henry Fuseli - The Nightmareįuseli's most famous painting, The Nightmare, may not seem creepy in the traditional sense. (They're later purged, still alive, by Zeus.) However, in Goya's take on the tale, painted as a mural on the wall of his own house, a deranged-looking Cronus violently consumes them piece by piece instead. In Greek mythology, the titan Cronus (Saturn in Roman texts), fearing that he would be overthrown by his children as he had usurped his own father, began swallowing each of them whole. Francisco Goya - Saturn Devouring His Son (Warning for readers with slower connections: That file is nearly 100mb in size.) 8. Like Bruegel's Triumph of Death, the numerous details in this work really benefit from a high-resolution image. The original is a triptych-a single work split among three panels-and the section here is merely from the bottom-right of the right-hand panel. This is but a detailed view of just one part of Bosch's famous Garden of Earthly Delights. ![]() ![]() Hieronymous Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights While touring the eighth circle of Hell, Dante and Virgil look on as Capocchio, a heretical alchemist, is bitten on the neck during a fight with Gianni Schicchi, a con artist who stole a dead man's inheritance. William Adolphe Bouguereau - Dante and Virgil in HellĪlthough it shares traits common with contemporary vampire stories, this painting by Bouguereau is 50 years older than even Stoker's Dracula, and is essentially an exact interpretation of an event described in Canto XXX of Dante's Inferno. Even if you're okay with spiders or downright love the little guys, this thing is still creepily unsettling. This is just one of a couple of paintings displaying the emotions of a weirdly human-faced spider. If you're arachnophobic or just generally not a fan of small, many-legged critters, you might want to avoid some of Odilon Redon's works. Although it's commonly mistaken as being a depiction of the Black Plague, it was actually painted over 200 years later. Every inch of the painting presents some new horror committed by the army of death, and many easily missed details can be seen by looking at a full-sized representation of the piece. Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Triumph of DeathĪn army of skeletons attacks peasants and royalty alike in Bruegel's The Triumph of Death. For more daring readers, Warhol also released artworks featuring police photos of suicides and car fatalities. The painting is based on a photograph of the former execution chamber at Sing Sing prison in New York. ![]() Andy Warhol - Big Electric ChairĪndy Warhol is most famous for his pop art pictures of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, but he also dabbled in some darker works, including his chilling piece, Big Electric Chair. The most disturbing part is that all the paintings were based on real model remains Géricault acquired from the Paris Morgue. This is but one of a series of works featuring disembodied body parts (including a painting of a pair of severed heads, equally as unsettling as this one) painted by French artist Théodore Géricault. Featuring nude men ripping babies out of the arms of their mothers and then murdering the children in front of them, the painting is certainly not for the squeamish. Painted in 1611, Massacre of the Innocents is Rubens' interpretation of Herod's order to kill every young male in Bethlehem, as recounted in the Gospel of Matthew. Peter Paul Rubens - Massacre of the Innocents (Obviously, this article contains some disturbing content.) 1. But as these fine art examples prove, violent and disturbing imagery is nothing new. Movies, TV, video games, tabletop RPGs, comic books, and various other things have all gone through periods where they're blamed for exposing children to dark and unsettling things. The media is often criticized for showing violent and disturbing imagery. ![]()
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