Dark/Surreal art

Interesting thread

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OP is back, glad to see thread has caught some attention.

>>2594728
bump! Wish I had some HR photos I could post.

>>2594728
Holy shit, that's amazing.

I am a painter who does this kind of stuff mostly and when I see these works I realize how much detail I lack.

Anyone got any high rez early warhammer/40k art? Stuff like Blanche or anything chaos related.

>>2595861
Keep working, we need this kind of art

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It's nice to see something other than celeb threads for once!

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>>2596058
These ones by Robert Kipniss are understated but still creepy as fuck in my opinion

>>2596061
they definitely have a dreamlike quality tothem

Giger and Beksiński, both GENIUS.

>>2594731
one of my favorites

>>2595935
>>2595861
please, keep working. totally worth it. i only wish i had the talent and skill to do things like this.

>>2596061
have to agree with you and
>>2596072
i look at these and feel a bit lost and found

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>>2596677
u mean both overrated lol

>>2596778
Same here! As a lifelong Star Wars fan, I can't help but see the resemblance to the Valley of the Dark Lords on Korriban.

>>2595935
>>2596783
Will do thanks senpai

>>2595861
post ur work

>>2597307
i will say its pretty amateurish, there a alot of artists doing this bekinski-esque skeletal landscape allready, its maybe a bit to familiar.
. https://www.instagram.com/p/7wG6kNPpiH/ this one is probably my favorite.
do you do any drawing, because i think some of this could translate well into b/w pen drawings or something.

>>2597341
I draw a tiny bit but I am Terrible at it. Mostly just sketch out an idea to remember when I draw.

You may want to improve the lighting of your paintings - this means defining where the light source is and how shadows are cast as well as choosing an overall hue of the light which influences your color choices. You should also take into consideration that objects reflect color on each other.

>>2594728
valley of death?

>>2594730
i feel like there should be five pentagrams.
unless i'm either missing it or its about the marriage betwixt light and dark

>>2596051
trying to read this almost made me cry

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>>2597137
gotta love dore

>>2597359
It does indeed lack detail bro. I can see that you got some fucked up shit (as in dark ideas/atmosphere ) but it doesn't really go anywhere from there on out.

I don't know how or if you can practice depth, or if it's talent, but if you can get better, do it! You have the imagination

>>2594937

Never have I seen a piece of art that gave me so many feels.

>>2596017
Why does the devil at the back doesn't even give a fuck? What's the story behind him?

bump

great thread, especially the Gustave Doré's Dante's Inferno wood engravings.
I may be dumping the whole set of Inferno soon if you guys are interested

>>2605915
Dump, please and thanks.

>>2594730
all giger seems to paint is surreal dicks, if he says that he gets inspiration from his dreams he needs to ask himself some questions

>>2606071
*facepalm* did you ever read about H.R. Giger, apparently not because dicks, porn and vagina's are his prime subjects....must be one of those after 2000 kids.

>>2606241
Or in his own words: the subjectation of female froms under the male biomechanical expression of dominance and forced intercourse.

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Jozef stolorz, also a polish artist. Not very well known, and greatly underestimated. Amazing traditional painter.
It's just quite hard to find his work online in high res.

>>2594728
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>>2601656
Reading The Night Land right now and these pics make me wonder if Beksinki read the book before painting these.

wish I had something to contribute but thanks to all that did.

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>>2622712
Might as well have the whole thing

amazing

underrated thread thanks guise

>>2594940
Absolutely

>>2594730
what gets me about giger is that he was absolutely terrified of his works, they all came from his night terrors, but they show a clear knowledge of the esoteric/occult so it makes you wonder what he felt about the subject matter

more !

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Dali : Tristan and Isolde

>>2595053
WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS TO THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS

>>2595152
who is this

Posting in an epic thread

>>2595053
Isn't this the cover art for The Psychic?

>>2595164
Source on this?

>>2628267
hello /mu/

>>2627958
Professor Evan Summer of Kutztown University.

>>2596058
This one is amazing. It generates anxiety and the feeling that something is going to slowly appear in front of you, but at the samw time you know it won't. everything about this picture is mysterious and unsettling

>>2595077

Wow. So much to see in there.

>>2595161
There is always some imminent disaster in Alex Colville's paintings, isn't there?

>>2622718
There is an online interactive guide to the Garden of Eartly Delights: https://tuinderlusten-jheronimusbosch.ntr.nl/en

>>2627954
Brain Salad Surgery by ELP.

>>2631552
woah

>>2626457
David Lynch.

>>2600914
virgil always looks pretty underwhelmed by hell

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>>2594965
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>>2594964
wonderful

>>2594939
Franz Von Stuck has some good shit

>>2606241
Indeed, he had a weird obsession with, um, for lack of a better word, "passages".

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Bumping for additional interest!

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2011/04/alfred-kubin.html

Might be of interest:

http://www.edgarende.de/

http://sugarboypress.blogspot.com/p/ghost-stories.html

>>2594965
thumbnail doesn't do this justice

>>2596965
Personally I'm always reminded of Frollo's song in Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, when the cardinals line up like this and silently judge him, breathing heavily... that still freaks me out to this day.

>>2601656
This one gave me feels :(

>>2618306
Dude, I loved that book. I never thought enough to draw parallels between this sort of art and the story, though.

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I prefer this other version's lighting, colors, and expression, but it's too small:
http://thrandur.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/gryla.jpg

>>2644174

Bordering on plagiarism of Dali's style

does anyone have that painting of a skeleton reaper grabbing a guys head from behind and cutting his throat with a knife, it looked like he was going for a decapitation. It was painted kinda like this >>2645453

>>2645487
Yeah, okay.

>>2645487
Literally no such thing.

>>2618306
all of his art was based on the terrible nightmares he had, i hear he locked up his paintings after finishing them because he hated them

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Xueguo Yang

Best Thread On /hr/

>>2595165
works perfect with scrolling

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Got a few, which are from deviantarters though. A quick google search should provide with soruces if needed.

>>2650927
Oops, no that one isnt from deviantart

Dark Souls had the opportunity to get really twisted with the third game and go in the direction of some of these paintings. Specially with areas like the Cathedral of the Deep. It's still fantastic but I wish it delved a little deeper into art like the paintings posted here.

boomp

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That title though.

>>2601656
This one gets me in the feels somehow

>>2659674
Is that James Jean?

>>2659721
So PineNut.

>>2616214
This can't be a painting..

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Just found a new guy you might not know. Wayne Barlowe, he has an entire book with this kind of stuff. Dumping some now, sorry if they're not that high res.

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>>2662012
Some more.

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>>2662014
Just say if you want some more later.

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>>2649525
Yea, wasn't really sure it was actually the case, just really seemed similar to what the landscape could have looked like. Finished the book a while back, it was pretty good but I would read the abridged version if I read it again.

>>2649525

People who are drawn to art as a profession have a high level of mirror neurons; the brain cells that allow young mammals to mimic adults, essentially play.
He was probably unable to view his paintings objectively, every time they came into view, he experienced a strong emotional reaction.

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>>2662015
Anything from Barlowe's Inferno is top notch.

>>2594937
Man, I don't know exactly why, but it is like I can feel that lamb feeling... Great art.

>>2598097
love this one

>>2596014
Artist please? Love the use of squares

>>2670174
Dalí.

This was the best thread I've seen on this board in a long time. I don't know anything about art but I'm going to do some research on some of the artists itt. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

>>2594937

This one's my favorite.

>>2596048
Remindes me of house on the borderlands

>>2594937
the crows give me chills

Really well done piece

>>2594949
The best part about this is that one single guy staring into your soul on the left, it gives me the creeps

>>2595099
Well that's pretty horrifying

>>2667083
Wow. Thanks for posting this.

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Phil Hale.

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>>2680777

Trips, deal with it.

>>2662012
>>2662014
>>2662015
Please post more from this artist.

>>2594937

the sheep is like "baaaaaaaaah",
and the crows are like " CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW",
and the baby sheep is like "..."

>>2682567

wow
yeah
just wonderful i was bewildered until this play-by-play of yours, as to what in the world could possibly be happening in that image

>>2682567
really makes you think

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>>2661074

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>>2610449
http://de.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2013/february/08/the-truth-behind-francis-bacons-screaming-popes/

>>2617635

World War I was so sad for all those idealistic painters that had to live through it and the bleakness of its aftermath :(((

>>2685346
Does he pay Giger a royalty?

>>2595041
great thread

>>2596011
Like how they find him like that, and he's just like 'what senpai?'

>>2596015
9th layer of hell if anyone is wondering