Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet GCVO, PRA was an English painter, designer and draughtsman who served as President of the Royal Academy.
At one point in his life, Richard Tennant Cooper had dreams of some day being recognised as one of the best artists in the world. Let’s be fair, why not the best artist in the world? We all have dreams – but somehow life intervenes. Tennant Cooper had talent, good talent, maybe great talent, maybe … Continue reading "The Horror, The Horror! Dark and Disturbing Paintings of Death and Disease"
Zdzislaw Beksinski (Zdzisław Beksiński) - the Polish artist, photographer and part-time my favorite painter. As for… by zazazum
Julia Soboleva is a Manchester-based artist who paints frightening paintings in the spirit of David Lynch's surrealist aesthetic. Soboleva's paintings are as ab
Uncover Goya's profound "The Third of May 1808" analysis, connecting history with art. Emotions, symbolism & comparisons are revealed!
Kim Myatt is a Nottingham, U.K.-based artist and painter creating haunting yet beautiful imagery. Myatt's works hint at death, nightmares, and psychological distress among other dark topics. Rather than presenting the obvious visual tropes of gore and blood, Myatt uses the subtle yet haunting unknown to inspired her work.
Jaroslav Panuška, Death Looking into the Window of One Dying, 1900. watercolour, white paint, paper, 46x35. NG, Prague. Urban, Otto M. In Morbid Colours: Art and the Idea of Decadence in the Bohemian Lands 1880-1914. Arbor Vitae, 2006, p. 370.
Despite humanity’s huge advancement, we still don’t possess the science for immortality, though some believe we will one day. All Saints’ Day is when one traditionally takes time to remember those that have left us. On this occasion Culture.pl presents a selection of exceptional 19th century Polish paintings exploring the the motif of death.
The theme of death was an increasingly common theme in Evelyns oeuvre as time went by. The Angel of Death I is the most overt representation of the subject and demonstrates Evelyns spiritualist belief that death is to be welcomed and not feared. Evelyn depicts the Angel of Death, who is symboli...
Raymond Douillet Ilia Repin (Russian, 1844–1930). Portrait of Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (1855–1888), 1884. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York От http://vasilyt.tumblr.com/ The Bookman: A Literary Journal — April. Color lithograph (1896). James Montgomery Flagg (American, 1877-1960).…
At one point in his life, Richard Tennant Cooper had dreams of some day being recognised as one of the best artists in the world. Let’s be fair, why not the best artist in the world? We all have dreams – but somehow life intervenes. Tennant Cooper had talent, good talent, maybe great talent, maybe … Continue reading "The Horror, The Horror! Dark and Disturbing Paintings of Death and Disease"
Skull, Butterflies, Caterpillars, Insects, Ivy,Black,Green,Yellow,Memento Mori Luisa Albert was born in Turin, Italy where she currently lives and works. In 1989 she enrolled at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan and around that time she began working for publishing houses as an illustrator. In 1992 she graduated with a degree in Illustration. She began to study painting with Ottavio Mazzonis who has continued to be a major influence and advisor. Her work as an illustrator has been surpassed by her love for painting. Her first participation in an art exhibition was at the Galleria Dantesca in Turin in 1996. In addition to participating in several art exhibitions, she has made portraits of members of the regional council, which are displayed in the Presidents Hall in Palazzo Lascaris, as well as portraits of members of the business community.
Kuoleman puutarha /The garden of Death by Hugo Simberg, 1896
We’re leaving Beardsley country. Taking the old dirt road off Harry Clarke county, on thru the inky backwoods and the old lost village long grown green and rotten with tree and weed, towards a place called Vania Zouravliov. The sky’s dark, and there’s movement among the trees that grow too close together to give any idea what that movement might be other than it’s something watching, something waiting. And you know pretty soon you’re going be meeting this something one way or another and the thought of it sends a cold ripple of excitement through your backbone as you push on ahead wanting to get there faster. That’s kinda like the feeling I get when I look at the artwork of Vania Zouravliov. Zouravliov is a Russian graphic artist based in London who draws sensuous, intricate pictures of beauty, death, sex, and decay. Born into an artistic family (his mother was an art teacher), Zouravliov was a child prodigy whose earliest works gained him considerable praise and some notoriety—“famous communist artists, godfathers of social realism, told him that his work was from the Devil.” He was drawing “evil hammerhead people” at the...
La Mort de Marat (The Death of Marat), Jacques-Louis David, 1793.
Shorra's 2012 piece Death of a Cyborg remixed William-Adolphe Bouguereau's 1888 painting The First Mourning/Premier Deuil, giving it a 21st century zest that I found so moving that I bought…
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by Gabriella Sotiriou The memento mori tradition centres around symbols and motifs designed to inspire in the viewer through thoughts on their mortality. The phrase itself in Latin means,‘reminder of death’ and the images seek to highlight the universality and inescapability of death. The tradition
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WHY WOULD A SMART GUY like Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) think an 18-year-old Roman emperor would read his essay about mercy?
