Just in time for Halloween.
More spooky paintings and images from the MadSilence collection.
All Is Vanity (1892) by Allan C. Gilbert. A true optical illusion. A comment on the transience of beauty and the mortal life.
The 400% – BE@RBRICK – Halloween Edition is comprised of an all clear plastic construction, with an anatomically correct, or at least its innards, painted on both front and back. The painted graphics superimposed one another, creating a 3-D visual image. Via Freshness. Kinda spooky, yes?
Black Kites (1997) by Gabriel Orozco. A memento mori of the most disconcerting kind. From an exceptional 20th century artist.
Spooky: Scarily suggestive of the supernatural; frightening or unnerving because suggesting the presence of supernatural forces
Can’t recall where we got this one…
Untitled (Skeletons) by Andy Warhol (1976)
Edvard Munch, Death and the Maiden, 1894, drypoint etching.
Related MadSilence posts:
Spooky paintings: pick your favorite
Dialogue with death
~MadSilence
6 Comments
October 30, 2008 at 12:50 am
How eerie!
October 30, 2008 at 3:23 am
Lady and the Skull. Very spooky!
October 30, 2008 at 8:48 pm
I love the Munch – death and the maiden. I wasn’t familiar with it. He certainly had issues.
October 31, 2008 at 11:39 am
Check out Catherine Heard’s ‘Vanitas Rider’. Might be something else for you to add to your collection.
November 1, 2008 at 2:36 am
Erie & spooky indeed, Chris & Leafless. And Heather, Munch seems to have captured the emotions of our time. Economic decline, war etc. My friend’s son is wearing a Scream mask for Halloween.
Jhay2, Heard’s ‘Vanitas Rider’ is indeed disturbing, with an added erotic overtone. Those vertebrae must hurt!
http://www.angellgallery.com/exhibitions/?detail=46
‘Vanitas’ (Latin: ‘vanity’ or ‘emptiness’) refers to a type of still-life picture depicting an object or collection of objects symbolizing the brevity of life and the transience of all earthly pleasures and achievements. Things like skulls, bones, clocks, decaying fruit, etc. A healthy living woman embracing a skeleton reflects on how close the living is to death.
~MadSilence
May 29, 2009 at 12:52 pm
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