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Nicola Samorì, Dark Baroque
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Nicola Samorì, Dark Baroque / Nicola Samorì creates works of dark beauty and baroque drama. His paintings are gouged, distorted, melted and destroyed. This act of destruction is so deliberate and contrasting to the works of painterly skill beneath that it can almost be seen as violent.
Ken Currie, Shadow Figures
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Ken Currie, Shadow Figures / Ken Currie, a fine Scottish artist focused firmly on the human condition. Sickness, death and aging are topics Curries' dark palette seem to frequent. There is a dark beauty and satire to many of Curries works. Never afraid of the large canvas, Currie's work towers over the viewer in person with his subject matter.
The Twisted Faces of Johan Van Mullem
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The Twisted Faces of Johan Van Mullem / Johan Van Mullem is a Belgian Contemporary Artist living and working near Brussels in Sint-Genesius-Rode, a small town in Flemish Brabant. The strong shadows and intense brushwork of his portraits evoke the dutch masters of old. Cerebral yet darkly primal Van Mullem enthralls the viewer.
The Mystic Art of Denis Forkas Kostromitin
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The Mystic Art of Denis Forkas Kostromitin / Denis Forkas Kostromitin was born in the town of Kamyshin, Russia on the river Volga. Kostromitin studied Greek and Egyptian mythology and mysticism in depth as a young man. These occult and esoteric studies slowly lead Kostromitin to a unique painterly approach. Years spent in China learning under master painters helped him focus his works even more.
Stephen Kasner, Dark Surrealism
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Stephen Kasner, Dark Surrealism / Stephen Kasner is a Cleveland based artist best known for his dark and surrealist works. Kasner uses a post-apocalyptic industrial landscape in a dreamlike haze of paint to evoke atmosphere.
The Masterworks of Odd Nerdrum
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The Masterworks of Odd Nerdrum / Odd Nerdrum is recognized as a modern master painter working in portraits, self-portraits, and large paintings often allegorical and apocalyptic in nature. He is one of the finest figurative painters working today.
Florian Bertmer, The Detailed Dark Line
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Florian Bertmer, The Detailed Dark Line
Zdzisław Beksiński, Dystopian Surrealism
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Zdzisław Beksiński, Dystopian Surrealism / Zdzisław Beksiński was a master Polish artist and painter working in the Surreal and Dark Art forms. Beksiński created in what he would often call either a 'Baroque' or a 'Gothic' style, though strains of a dark surrealism could be often seen. In his best-known period Beksiński created dark images of a surrealistic post-apocalyptic world.
The H.R. Giger Bar, A Drink with The Master
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The H.R. Giger Bar, A Drink with The Master / H.R. Giger Bar is an establishment modelled by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. Currently, there are two Giger Bars: the H.R. Giger Bar in Chur, Switzerland, opened in 1992, and The Museum H.R. Giger Bar, located in Château St. Germain, Gruyères next to the H.R. Giger Museum in Switzerland, which opened its doors in 2003. These bars are works of art created from sketches and ideas directly given from the artist.
The Symbolic Nature of Agostino Arrivabene
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The Symbolic Nature of Agostino Arrivabene / Agostino Arrivabene is a masterful and visionary painter from the italian countryside. He paints using ground pigments and many other traditional working methods that yield themselves to a timelines nature. This is a world of symbols, ancient landscapes and psychological probing that is Arrivabene's own.
Thrash, Skulls & Death: The Art of Pushead
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Thrash, Skulls & Death: The Art of Pushead / Brian “Pushead” Schroeder considers his art a “pimple on normal society”. Pushead gained brief fame as the lead singer of his band Septic Death during the 1980s and as the owner of a punk record label Pusmort. Pusmort Records released albums by hardcore punks Negative Gain, Poison Idea and Final Conflict...
The Renaissance Masters of Dark Art
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The Renaissance Masters of Dark Art / The golden age of the renaissance brought with it many positive societal developments and a renewed focus on creating art and craft. Even among this progress the mystery and theater of great dark art was not lost to time. Many artists and craftsman refused to create only what their patrons expected, in fact many showed that art could be used for so much more deep inquiry.
Caspar David Friedrich, Dark Romanticism
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Caspar David Friedrich, Dark Romanticism / Caspar David Friedrich was key member of the Romantic Movement in Germany and forever altered landscape painting to include an intense emotional view. David, as many of the Romantic artists did, diminished man in the larger scale of life showing him in vast wilderness spaces.
Gustave Doré, The Dark Divine Comedy
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Gustave Doré, The Dark Divine Comedy / A prolific wood and steel engraver, artist, illustrator, and sculptor Gustave Doré created epic visions of angels, demons, history and human tragedy. The Paradise Lost illustrations and Dante's Divine Comedy have become so praised that many have become pop culture items in their own right. Doré's works are narrative and iconic, featuring dramatic use of contrast and no aversion to darker themes.
Dark Design
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Dark Design
Dark Album Art
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Dark Album Art / Dark Album Art
Dark Drawing
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Dark Drawing
The Wild Hunt
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The Wild Hunt / The Wild Hunt is an ancient folk myth that begun in Northern Europe. The Wild Hunt is a group of ghostlike creatures or dead men that roam the skies in prusiut of their prey. Varations of the story place heathen gods as the huntsmen. If you encounter the Wild hunt and help it you will be rewarded, if you do not you will be punished by the gods.
Dark Paint
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Dark Paint
Kris Kuksi Dark Relics & Lost Civilizations
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Kris Kuksi Dark Relics & Lost Civilizations / Kris Kuksi has been called a post-industrial Rococo and Fantastic Realism sculptor. Kuksi obsessively places figures, small toys, mechanical components, objects and characters into an impressive often symmetrical compositions. Kuksi’s influence is taken heavily from the Baroque and Rococo Art periods.
The Father of Dark Art, Hieronymus Bosch
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The Father of Dark Art, Hieronymus Bosch / Born Jheronimus van Aken circa 1450, Hieronymus Bosch's work was widely collected during his life, especially his macabre and nightmarish depictions of Hell. He was a pessimistic and fantasy artist of individualistic tastes. He greatly affected The Northern European art of the 16th century, with Pieter Bruegel the Elder and other famous artists following in his footsteps.
The Dark Arts of Japan
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The Dark Arts of Japan / After a recent trip to Japan and the Tokyo Museum of Modern Art Dark Art & Craft thought it would be worthwhile to create a piece on the dark artists of 'the land of the rising sun'. Japan, a culturally rich land, is in many ways removed from the western control many other countries succumb too. Because of this difference the art produced is often of the truly original variety. We have chosen a few of our favorite artists to feature in this small exposure.
Work Hardened, The Art of Paul Romano
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Work Hardened, The Art of Paul Romano / Paul Romano is a fine artist and designer living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Romano's work often consists of vivid colors, mythical beasts and crisp typography. His work is unique among modern album artists as it is almost entirely created on canvas by hand. This traditional art process is done with a craftsman's eye. Romano's recent art for the heavy metal/rock band Mastodon has been well received and brought his art to a much larger audience.
Livio Scarpella, Stone Ghosts
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Livio Scarpella, Stone Ghosts / Livio Scarpella is a modern Italian sculptor whose work looks back to the marble at Cappella Sansevero in Naples, Italy and even earlier to Michelangelo. His famous series “Ghost Underground” depicts dark ghostly souls in marble with veils over their faces. These works are influenced by the veiled sculptures in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples, Italy containing the work of artist Antonio Corradini.
The Art of Godmachine
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The Art of Godmachine / Godmachine is a dark digital artist and illustrator born in Cardiff, South Wales. The artist grew up on a 'steady diet of nothing but, 2000AD comics, Santa Cruz skateboards and old library books of Klimt and Beardsley' (via godmachinedesigns.blogspot.com) and the pop culture references are apparent.
Dehn Sora, Decaying Organics
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Dehn Sora, Decaying Organics / French graphic designer and musician Dehn Sora (aka Treha Sektori) creates complex photo manipulations, illustrations and graphic layouts among other varied crafts. His compositions carry a dark atmosphere often based on organic decay and bizarre juxtapositions. Sora has done work for Blut Aus Nord, <Code>, Church of Ra/Amenra. Treha Sektori and more.
Salvator Rosa, A Perpetual Rebel
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Salvator Rosa, A Perpetual Rebel / Salvator Rosa was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker from the 17th century. His wild landscapes and satirical portraits paved the way for romanticism and dark subject matter in fine art. He was active in Naples, Rome and Florence in paint, etchings and playwriting. His unorthodox subject matter (Saul and the Witch of Endor) brought him the label of "Perpetual Rebel".
The Somber Work of Yuri Shwedoff
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The Somber Work of Yuri Shwedoff / Yuri Shwedoff creates post apocalyptic, fantastic and surreal digital art works. His monochrome palette lends a mystery and fog to his collection of subtle toned paintings. Many of the works often leave only a single figure in a vast landscape, left to contemplate their surroundings.
The Highbrow Art of Arik Roper
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The Highbrow Art of Arik Roper / Arik roper is master of silkscreen and music related poster designs. His work often includes rich abstract psychedelic colors and landscapes that appear almost alien in nature. Roper's work has featured a variety of bands including some rock & metal legends, such as...
Odani Motohiko, Phantom Limbs
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Odani Motohiko, Phantom Limbs / A Dark Art & Craft favorite and an artist with strong sculptural roots, Odani Motohiko creates a world of technological advanced figures. These are dark futuristic works focusing on detailed structure and shape. The biomechanical shapes Odani makes breed a psychological state that induces fear, pain, unease.
An Interview with Mark Cooper
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An Interview with Mark Cooper / Mark Cooper creates psychedelic landscapes and gruesome looking figures with his detailed digital art. Cooper's intensely colored works seem to form an alien and darkly organic atmosphere. Many of his works are for Death and Extreme Metal groups with recent pieces for Serpentspire, Master and Pessimist.
The Dark Art of War
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The Dark Art of War / The wartime artist has an unique opportunity to record history in a visual way. Art can be direct, powerful and at times even a weapon for change. The recording of war for history's sake and for propaganda is well documented. The emotion, drama and darkness of the battlefield is shown in the artist's work below.
Underground Metal & Art
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Underground Metal & Art
The Primal Enviroments of Martin Wittfooth
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The Primal Enviroments of Martin Wittfooth / Martin Wittfooth’s oil paintings vividly compare animal nature with modern fears and environment. Humans while absent in Wittfooth's paintings are shown through the earth we create for his animal subjects. Our destruction of landscape and our polluting industries make the backdrop to these visual narratives.
Robert Ryan, Americana Mystic
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Robert Ryan, Americana Mystic / Robert Ryan is a tattooist, painter and musician that focuses on occult symbolism, shamanism and other mythic based arts. Ryan’s art uses the various roots of western occult symbolism, Eastern Vedic philosophy and Amazonian shamanism, which are all shown through the lens of traditional American tattooing.
Dark Media
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Dark Media
Melissa Cooke, Masked FIgures
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Melissa Cooke, Masked FIgures / Melissa Cooke is a graphite on paper fine artist dealing with complex and dark subject matter. Using a dry brush Cooke creates thin layers of graphite on paper which she then erases for highlights. This process gives her works a photorealist quality and a certain softness that removes heavy line work. In her “Vacuum” series she depicts faces trapped within plastic bags gasping from the air constriction.
Frank Frazetta's Fantasy World
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Frank Frazetta's Fantasy World / One of our favorite Fantasy Artists at Dark Art & Craft is master oil painter Frank Frazetta. Over his long career Frazetta produced detailed art for Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan, John Carter of Mars and countless others. Frazetta defined the Fantasy and Science-Fiction art genres and at the same time transcended the rather orthodox world of pulp book covers and comic art to make his own name.
Flesh & Bone, The Art of A. W. Sommers
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Flesh & Bone, The Art of A. W. Sommers / Allison Sommers is a self-taught visual artist working primarily in gouache on paper. The Brooklyn-based artist creates complicated, intricate, sometimes uncomfortable worlds of meat, vegetation, birds and beasts of various sizes. The artist describers herself as an Art worker, flaneur and vulgarist. Sommers uses warm vibrant reds on paper to create her bizarre creatures and organs.
Organic Forms, The Art of DZO
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Organic Forms, The Art of DZO / DZO is a French graphic designer, illustrator and self-taught artist. His intricate artwork mimics engravings of religious and occult manuscripts and mixes them with mythic and dark themes. This cauldron of interests breeds an art fascinated with the natural and the unnatural. Incredibly detailed black ink drawings use the symbols of different cultures to illustrate DZO's vision. The regenerative cycle of life, birth through decay, is a common trait in his work.
The Grotesque Art of Ivan Albrigh
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The Grotesque Art of Ivan Albrigh / Ivan Albright was an American 'Magic Realist' artist that created highly detailed and dark paintings. The Magic Realist painters have been described as "Artists looking at the mundane through a hyper-realistic and often mysterious lens". During World War I Albright created medical drawings for a hospital in France, this grotesque task was thought to influence his later works.
Ivan Bilibin Dark Forklore
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Ivan Bilibin Dark Forklore / There was something dark, mythic and beautifully primitive about world of folklore Ivan Bilibin created. Throughout his career he was inspired deeply by Slavic folklore and myth. He distinctly reflected the mountains, forests and lore of old Russia. Bilibin gained some renown in 1899, when he released his illustrations of Russian fairy tales which became popular.
The High Kitsch and Epic landscapes of John Martin
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The High Kitsch and Epic landscapes of John Martin / John Martin was raised in a one room english cottage in a small Northumberland town, Haydon Bridge. From this modest upbring Martin would go on to create a vast collection of historical landscapes and a fortune to match. He was Influenced by the work of J.M.W. Turner as well as other history & landscape painters like Theodore Gericault and Salvator Rosa.
Jeff Simpson Illustrator & Concept Artist
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Jeff Simpson Illustrator & Concept Artist
The Dark Variations of Guang Yang
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The Dark Variations of Guang Yang / Guang Yang is a oil painter, digital artist and metal album creator based in Shanghai, China. His work utilizes traditional materials such as oil, acrylic, wax, and oil pastel along with modern digital tools. Yang has produced work for Slayer, Putridity, Majesty, Beheaded, Inherit Disease, Inanimate Existence, Xenomorphic Contamination among others. His art is at times reminiscent of master painter Zdzisław Beksiński and Dan Seagrave while maintaining a modern tint. Enjoy.
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
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Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages / Benjamin Christensen’s 1929 film Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages is one of the earliest and darkest documentaries. It features a combination of narrative devices that, by today’s standards, would make it more akin to a docudrama. These devices and the supernatural subject matter may be why it is frequently thought of as a horror film rather than a non-fiction piece. Häxan uses wood etchings, educational slides, reenactments, dramatizations, stop motion animation, and more to mold the story.
The Mixed Mediums of Dave Mckean
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The Mixed Mediums of Dave Mckean / Dave McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist and graphic designer among other things. His eclectic work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects and digital art. McKean is truly a mixed media artist and one of the first to embrace digital technologies in such an open fashion. In the 80s McKean met author Neil Gaiman with whom he began a partnership that would produce much creative work.
The Myth & Folklore of Glyn Smyth
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The Myth & Folklore of Glyn Smyth / Glyn Smyth (Stag & Serpent), is a skilled designer and printmaker from Belfast, Ireland. You may recognize some of his work from metal/rock bands Unearthly Trance, Year of No Light and Sub Rosa's album art. His dark occult inspired creations evoke a mystical environment of cloaked figures and sacred geometry.
Suspiria
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Suspiria / Dario Argento’s 1977 Giallo masterpiece Suspiria, was based on the Suspiria de Profundis, a compilation of poetry and essays by Thomas de Quincy, who is often credited as the father of western addiction literature. Not surprisingly, his book was largely rooted in his own hallucinatory opium visions. Likewise, Argento’s Suspiria is equal parts psychedelic, beautiful, and horrifying.
The Art of Skulls, Rafal Wechterowicz
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The Art of Skulls, Rafal Wechterowicz / Rafal Wechterowicz (Raf) is a skilled illustrator from Poznan, Poland. Rafal has worked with a variety of major brands and recording artists such as Mastodon, Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Slayer among others. He creates his work in a highly narrative and detailed illustrative style. His illustrations focus on common dark elements like skulls, scythes and skeletons that form a loose visual language.
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach German Symbolist
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Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach German Symbolist / Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach was a German Symbolist painter and radical social reformer. He attended the Munich Academy of Art and was deeply inspired by the works of fellow symbolist Swiss painter Arnold Bocklin. Diefenbach was a natural medicine practitioner living a nature-centered existence and mainly vegetarian, an oddity at this time. His lifestyle rejected many social norms of the age including religion which among other issues forced him for a time to flee to Egypt.
Paul Fryer Morningstar
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Paul Fryer Morningstar / Paul Fryer creates iconic art and installation pieces from powerful symbols. His work focuses mainly on morality, science and religion and how we interact with these vast topics. Ever striking as they are modern Fryer's installations create a strong visual reaction.
Chris Kiesling of Misanthropic Art
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Chris Kiesling of Misanthropic Art / Chris Kiesling of Misanthropic Art creates detailed ink illustrations focused on dark imagery and inspired by the heavy music scene.
Black Narcissus
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Black Narcissus / The powerhouse partnership of writers/directors/producers/editors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger produced many influential, visual lush, and emotionally raw films including The Red Shoes and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Among some of their most famous films is Black Narcissus, the religious drama focuses on a convent of young, isolated, and self regulated nuns. Based on Rumer Godden’s novel of the same name, much of the dialogue is lifted verbatim from the pages of the book.
Fred Grabosky
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Fred Grabosky / Fred Grabosky (FTG Illustration) was kind enough to answer some questions about his art and process for Dark Art & Craft. Fred creates his dark organic illustrations with pencil and micron ink pen. Beyond art he produces music in God Root and SADGIQACEA.
Francis Bacon, Horror in Oil
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Francis Bacon, Horror in Oil / Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British painter who created grotesque and powerful works in oil. He used bold color and deformed figures to create a thoroughly modern yet horrific collection of art. Much has been written on Bacon who maintained a respect for the tenets of traditional art while displaying a dark array of emotion on canvas. Troubled during his life Bacon's art tells a tumultuous story of existence. We have chosen some of our favorite works below.
Daniel Vazquez the American Ghoul
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Daniel Vazquez the American Ghoul / Dark cloaked figures and bleak ominous landscapes are central to the ethereal works of Daniel Vazquez, also know as American Ghoul. Vazquez creates manipulations and staged photography that touch on dark symbolism, death, and occult ritual. A keen eye for composition and symbolism give Vazuez's work a thrilling dark air.
The Dark Still Life by Toru Kamei
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The Dark Still Life by Toru Kamei / Japanese artist Toru Kamei creates richly detailed dreamlike paintings with a dark focus on mortality. Kamei envisions a world of lush foliage mixed with surreal eyes and somber skulls. The artist is inspired by inspired by Vanitas, a style of painting popular among the Dutch Realists of the 17th century. Vanitas still life painting is based on the theme of death's inevitability, Kamei carries on this tradition with added surrealist elements.
Orion Landau, Art of the Album Design
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Orion Landau, Art of the Album Design / Orion Landau is the in-house graphic designer for Relapse Records. He helped forge the '90 rock and metal poster revival with the likes of Frank Kozik and Lindsey Kuhn, both great silkscreen print designers. Landau creates in watercolor, photography, and paint combining these diverse mediums with a modern sense of layout. His album artwork for Relapse often has a dark thematic tint matching the intensity of the music genre represented.
Vincent Castiglia, Autopsies of The Soul
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Vincent Castiglia, Autopsies of The Soul / Vincent Castiglia is an Artist intently focused on the human condition. Castiglia's work viscerally meditates on the various intersections of body and mind. He creates using a mixture of blood and water; a simple yet emotive material when applied to paper.
Jean Delville Occult Art
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Jean Delville Occult Art / Jean Delville was a symbolist painter, author, poet, hermetic philosopher, teacher and occultist from Belgium. Delville helped organized the Salons d'Art Idéaliste; a group whose goal was to continue the tradition of idealistic Art. Delville traced this idea-based Artwork all the way back to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians. Through his painting and ideology he became a leading exponent of the Belgian Idealist and symbolist movements in art during the 1890s.
Santiago Caruso, Dark Symbolist
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Santiago Caruso, Dark Symbolist / Santiago Caruso is a dark symbolist artist with an attraction to the surreal and macabre. His techniques ranges from tempera & ink on paper to scratched mixed media pieces on cardboard. Working in book illustration and music album art Caruso's work has a highly illustrative angle that makes viewing it an almost investigative process.
Cinematic Horror with Artist Chris Garofalo
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Cinematic Horror with Artist Chris Garofalo
A glimpse inside Peter Mohrbacher's Angelarium
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A glimpse inside Peter Mohrbacher's Angelarium / Peter Mohrbacher is an artist whom has come from the video game and concept art industries and since gone rogue doing a passion project of his very own. His work finds inspiration from multiple angel mythologies which he first stumbled across in 2005. It's safe to say that Peter hasn't looked back since and in doing so unleashes the mesmerizing body of work he calls Angelarium.
Yaroslav Gerzhedovich, The Damned City
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Yaroslav Gerzhedovich, The Damned City / Russian artist Yaroslav Gerzhedovich paintings are classically dark often monochrome and surreal creations. Featuring barren fields, ancient structures, and fantastical compositions Gerzhedovich's paintings transfix the viewer.
Olivier de Sagazan
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Olivier de Sagazan / Olivier de Sagazan is a French painter, sculptor, and performance artist. De Sagazan's dark illustrative paintings are built from layers of thick oil paint creating grotesque flesh type textures. His long-running performance work "Transfiguration" is built upon the act of applying clay and paint to the artist's body and face. While de Sagazan works in multiple disciplines his art keeps a frightening and constant approach.
Par Olofsson Dark Lands
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Par Olofsson Dark Lands / Umeå, Sweden based artist Pär Olofsson creates hyper-realistic record covers for death metal bands. Olofsson's colorful often dark paintings are created with a mixture of pen ink on paper and digital tablet paint. The artist has worked on album art for Immolation, Deeds of Flesh and Abysmal Dawn among other groups.
Dark Icon's by Jasmine Worth
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Dark Icon's by Jasmine Worth / Artist Jasmine Worth creates surreal and symbolic icon paintings. Her largely stoic female faces remind one of the early renaissance fascination with the iconic madonna and religious symbology. The Artist currently lives and works in San Diego, California creating variations on the icon theme.
Deform, The Art of Miles Johnston
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Deform, The Art of Miles Johnston
Natalia Smirnova's Dark Spirits
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Natalia Smirnova's Dark Spirits / Natalia Smirnova creates dark spirits, angels, renaissance landscapes, and apparitions with simple watercolor and tempera on cardboard. The St. Petersburg based artist's illustrations harken back to earlier times. (the work of Gustave Dore and Italian Baroque painter/print maker Salvator Rosa come to mind).
Dark Art & Craft Interview with Ink Artist Adrian Baxter
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Dark Art & Craft Interview with Ink Artist Adrian Baxter
The Dark Works of Kristian Wåhlin, Necrolord
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The Dark Works of Kristian Wåhlin, Necrolord / Kristian Wåhlin, also known as Necrolord, is a painter and musician ('The Great Deceiver' among others) who was brought up in Gothenburg, Sweden. His work employs dark fantasy, landscape settings and the 'powerful symbolism of life and death". Wåhlin names Caspar David Friedrich and the 1400-century painters Hieronymus Bosch and Albrecht Dürer as some of his foremost inspiration.
Dark Stories by So Pinenut
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Dark Stories by So Pinenut / So PineNut is the name of an elusive Japanese artist and illustrator residing in Tokyo. His dark detailed graphite illustrations are based on stories ("The call of life-A dark story about Eden") and have a detached yet organic nature to them. The reimagining of these fabled stories includes; mutilation, human sacrifice, and cannibalism. The intense topics aside So PineNut creates beautifully rendered graphite work that captivates the viewer; drawing you deeper into the illustration.
The Dark Existential Art of Thierry De Cordier
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The Dark Existential Art of Thierry De Cordier / A philosopher, writer, and visual artist; Thierry De Cordier creates dark and mesmerizing existential artwork. Created from his own experiences and diverging viewpoints De Cordier reflects upon his nomadic existence as a young artist and beyond.
Paolo Girardi, Apocalyptic Renaissance
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Paolo Girardi, Apocalyptic Renaissance