Dark paintings :)

[Kyriakos]

Personally i am very much fond of dark images, that is images that convey a sense of horror, the macabre, are generally eerie and suggest hidden unlit depths of the human mind :)

Here are a few of my favourite such paintings:

First a couple by Beksinksi (these have no titles)

http://tribble.edublogs.org/files/2010/10/beksinski2-1owafpe.jpg

http://www.mysticmana.com/product_image.php?imageid=380

Then there is Goya

The witches' Sabbath

http://www.avenuedstereo.com/modern/goya_witch.jpg

I only discovered this one lately, but i love it:

Bruce Segur- Childhood demons

http://www.cegur.com/Art/ChildhoodDemons.jpg

And finally, an image that can be seen as both depressing but uplifting too, depending on how you interpret it:

Mihcael Whelan - Leap of faith

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads3/Leap_of_Faith.jpg

It would be great if you post your own favourites too :)

[manolia]

I love this one

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u106/manolia_niki/goya_time.jpg

and this (not sure if it counts as dark, but i get an eerie feeling while looking at it)

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u106/manolia_niki/the_magic_circle.jpg

and this

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u106/manolia_niki/REDTOWER.jpg

And most of hieronymous bosch's work (and goya's as well).

EDIT
the Beksinksi painting is simply great!

[Lulim]

I thought of another Goya immediately. I can't say that I like it, though, but it leaves me always feeling creepy -- Saturn:

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/g/goya/saturn.jpg


the "Isenheimer Altar", by Matthias Grünewald (this picture shows only a part, the eery one):

http://www.meisterwerke-online.de/mathis-gothart-gruenewald/original2351/isenheimer-altar-geoeffnet-2-wandlung.jpg


Arnold Böcklin: "Self portrait and the fiddling death"*:

http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/images/21768-p1.jpg


and "Guernica", by Pablo Picasso:

http://homepage.mac.com/dmhart/WarArt/Picasso/Guernica/Guernica.JPG



@manolia, whom are the pictures from?

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* = Probably inadequately translated by myself

[manolia]

@manolia, whom are the pictures from?


Oops sorry, i forgot to add the names.
The first is by Goya and i think it is called "time".
The second is by Waterhouse and it is called "the magic circle".
As for the third, i honestly don't know (but i like it very much) :)

[Lulim]

(...) As for the third, i honestly don't know (but i like it very much) :)

I thought it was "The Tower of Babel" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, but it is not exactly the same (the clouds are different, and there are no people in your picture):

http://kulturfondue.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/babal.jpg

[Greta Kin]

Two Henry Fuseli paintings come to mind:

The Nightmare
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG/330px-John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG

and Mad Kate
http://cache2.artprintimages.com/p/LRG/13/1352/ABYS000Z/art-print/henry-fuseli-mad-kate-1806-07.jpg

[faithosaurus]

This one is by Botticelli:

http://i55.tinypic.com/bi9i53.jpg

And this one, the author is unknown:

http://i51.tinypic.com/14mwht4.jpg

[Kyriakos]

Very interesting paintings :)

Some of Ryden's work, which is not exactly that dark, but bizarre anyway:

http://www.markryden.com/images/index/0210/hm020810_b.jpg

http://www.markryden.com/images/painting/one/sweat/Sweat.jpg