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)





Then there is Goya

The witches' Sabbath



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

Bruce Segur- Childhood demons



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



It would be great if you post your own favourites too

[manolia]

I love this one



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



and this



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:




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




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




and "Guernica", by Pablo Picasso:





@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):

[Greta Kin]

Two Henry Fuseli paintings come to mind:

The Nightmare


and Mad Kate

[faithosaurus]

This one is by Botticelli:



And this one, the author is unknown:

[Kyriakos]

Very interesting paintings

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