“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. “
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, (1864-1901).
(Source: aloj.us.es)
Halloween, 2010.
Detail from the Nicolau-Juncosa family monument in the Cementerio de Montjuïc, Barcelona.
Image by Oscar Diaz.
Artwork by Françoise Duvivier.
Visit damagedcorpse.com for more.
IcoNo 1, (2008) by Pablo Alonso.
Zdzisław Beksiński
(Source: sailorplacide, via out-to-dry)
The Hands Resist Him, also known as The eBay Haunted Painting, is a painting created by Oakland, California artist Bill Stoneham in 1972. It depicts a young boy and female doll standing in front of a glass paneled door against which many hands are pressed. According to the artist, the boy is based on a photograph of himself aged 5, the doorway is a representation of the dividing line between the waking world and the world of fantasy and impossibilities, while the doll is a guide that will escort the boy through it. The titular hands represent alternate lives or possibilities. The painting became the subject of an urban legend and a viral internet meme in February 2000 when it was posted for sale on eBay along with an elaborate back story implying that it was haunted.
*Read about the cursed painting of The Crying Boy by Giovanni Bragolin.
(Source: libmahenots.deviantart.com)
Miniature photo-realistic drawings by Scottish artist Paul Chiappe
(Source: ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com)
Art by Murray McKeich
Described as both ‘macabre’ and ‘darkly seductive’, McKeich’s art weaves visions of surreal fantasy and magic from the tiny pieces of everyday debris found in urban and domestic environments. His recent practice utilises generative software to autonomously breed art-works - the writer Darren Tofts has noted that: “A secular Papa Legba (voodoo god of crossroads and mediator between worlds). McKeich sets the parameters or rules that will determine the number, resolution and size of the images to be assembled from the data base.” McKeich regards this generative systems as a “dreaming machine”- a form of unconscious creative agency that is every bit as mysterious and inexplicable as the subconscious that conjures the dreams and visions of sleep.
(Source: artdes.monash.edu.au)