Duck and Cover

Having just read Pickman's model last night, I began to wonder if it was really possible to create a painting or work of art truly capable of striking terror in people. As of yet I cannot recall a piece of still art that has terrified me in any memorable way. So here is a thread meant to answer that question.

Post below the most terrifying artwrk you know of, or just give your thoughts on the story, Lovecraft in general, or the possibility of creating such works of wonderfully horrible artwork. Please focus on paintings, and keep out digital artwork, unless it really does scare the shit out of you.

and my bad for completely misusing the word predecessor.

in the context that the works are inspied by real experience - this might be a bit chilly
http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/ ... sinski.htm
http://www.belvederegallery.com/Bex/
http://images.google.co.uk/images?um=1& ... rch+Images

i've always thought goya's saturn devouring his son was a bit sinister, though it's not exactly something that causes 1/1D6 SAN loss to view. i like it especially in comparison to most of the art that was being made at the time, very ornate fairly pompous stuff like this or this for example (these are slightly later but you get the idea).



can't think of anything really great for this (quite interesting) topic though.

PiP wrote:in the context that the works are inspied by real experience - this might be a bit chilly
http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/ ... sinski.htm

God damn it these Polacks all have so similar sounding names. At first I thought you were talking about this guy and was surprised that he'd be such an epic painter as well.

Kashluk wrote:
God damn it these Polacks all have so similar sounding names. At first I thought you were talking about this guy and was surprised that he'd be such an epic painter as well.

well not all names are so similar, but I guess the majority ends in -ski so combined with the same first letter I guess it can be a bit confusing for foreigners. And btw it so happens that this guy is one of my all-time national favourite figures.
To make things worse, there's also this filmmaker Baginski

Our professor gave a simple tip in pronouncing Polish names: leave every third letter unpronounced, pronounce them fast enough and throw in one random letter of your choice that isn't written.

When I was a kid, I had the book Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark. The illustrations used to scare the crap out of me..

but not so much anymore.

I don't believe I have ever seen any paintings that hav really terrified me by themselves. I think that in the right room (like say an old portrait in an abandoned building) alot of artwork could be pretty creepy.

:fap:

..painting went downhill after Caravaggio. :oldskool:

Edvard Munch's stuff is, if not scary, disturbing in the same way as Goya; the more you look at them and pay attention to the details, they trouble you.

Look at the faces in the second painting.