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[Valhelm]

Are there any works of art that just make you shiver or cringe? Have you ever seen a painting so uncomfortable that you don't want to look at it, but can't take your eyes away?

Much of Francis Bacon's work would qualify, but I think that the most outwardly disturbing of all of his work is his Study after Velazquez.

The open mouth and smeared face scream feelings of pain and discomfort, and the use of vertical lines increase the uneasiness of the scene, and mimic prison bars.

For obvious reasons, Edward Stauch's Hospital Gangrene of an Arm Stump makes my skin crawl.

What are your favorite paintings that make you uncomfortable or uneasy?

 

[Kuroyume]

Illustrations of torture devices

For example the illustration of someone being sawed in half from their pelvis down while hanging. Sure the picture itself isn't disturbing because it isn't graphic. But the idea that this method was actually used and people died that way. It's beyond fucked up.

 

[joe2187]

That guy with the gangrene arm looks exactly like Henry Fonda.

 

[hipbabboom]

Because derailing what is clearly a serious thread that can lead to art discovery, I'll refrain from posting furry paintings.

 

[ComputerMKII]

 

[ЯAW]

Zdzisław Beksiński did some haunting pictures. Internet pictures don't do justice to them, they are amazing irl. Don't know if I consider them disturbing, just creepy as hell. I guess, some of his early scetches and photographs are disturbing.

 

[Dr.Acula]

I'm on a tablet.

Someone post that Dutch family portrait painting that had its own thread. Oh, and the painting from Ghostbusters II.

 

[Horseticuffs]

You can't throw this party without Hieronymus Bosch-
http://goo.gl/ZQMXcq

 

[FelixOrion]

Zdzisław Beksiński did some haunting pictures. Internet pictures don't do justice to them, they are amazing irl. Don't know if I consider them disturbing, just creepy as hell. I guess, some of his early scetches and photographs are disturbing.

Came to post him. Actual nightmare fuel.

 

[Valhelm]

These are actually two of my favorite paintings. The expressions on the killers' faces are incredible. And the Spanish king (lol) is one of the most badass depictions I've ever seen in any work of art or fiction.

 

[Horseticuffs]

I've always been terrified by extremely large, living things. It all started when I was a child and a museum my parents often took me to had a large, now obviously fake giant squid hanging from the ceiling,

I thought it was just a giant, dead squid-monster that was rotting a hundred feet above us. I always imagined that it would just fall one day while I was under it and just putrescence and rotten gore would go all over me and everything!

To this day I hate the idea of really huge living things so when I first saw Goya's Colossus it really struck a chord with me. He did so much amazing shit, like "Saturn devouring his son" too.

Oddly enough, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that now The Colossus is thought to be the work of one of his apprentices though maybe that's a false memory.

 

[Dennis]

All three are magnificent.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

Bosch: The Thread.

 

[Reversed]

Which is more disturbing than

 

[T.O.P]

Came to post him. Actual nightmare fuel.

i'm in love

 

[Hydrargyrus]

I've always been terrified by extremely large, living things. It all started when I was a child and a museum my parents often took me to had a large, now obviously fake giant squid hanging from the ceiling,

I thought it was just a giant, dead squid-monster that was rotting a hundred feet above us. I always imagined that it would just fall one day while I was under it and just putrescence and rotten gore would go all over me and everything!

To this day I hate the idea of really huge living things so when I first saw Goya's Colossus it really struck a chord with me. He did so much amazing shit, like "Saturn devouring his son" too.



Oddly enough, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that now The Colossus is thought to be the work of one of his apprentices though maybe that's a false memory.

The entire collection of Goya's "black paintings" are pretty disturbing.
http://www.museodelprado.es/goya-en-el-prado/obras/lista/?tx_gbgonline_pi1[gocollectionids]=6

I would like to choose this one: "tow old men eating soup"

 

[Katzenjammer]

 

[Lazyslob]

So dope.

 

[Erigu]

URRRRRRY!

 

[T.O.P]

So dope.

wanna learn more about this guy, will hit Wikipedia later

 

[toddhunter]

Zdzisław Beksiński did some haunting pictures. Internet pictures don't do justice to them, they are amazing irl. Don't know if I consider them disturbing, just creepy as hell. I guess, some of his early scetches and photographs are disturbing.

Inspiring stuff.

 

[Diamond]

The anatomy lecture of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp - Rembrandt

Christina's World - Wyeth

The Triumph of Death - Bruegel

 

[Spring-Loaded]

This floored me.

 

[youngwerther]

Knowing the story behind this makes this painting so human.

 

[Mr.Ock]

I find this one so haunting

 

[b&jy77VjiKn$#F]

The anatomy lecture of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp - Rembrandt

This somehow reminds me of Deus Ex.

 

[elseanio]

Fuseli - The Nightmare. Although the horse is quite comical..

 

[m3k]

Knowing the story behind this makes this painting so human.

what is the story? Links?

 

[markot]

what is the story? Links?

Ivan killing his son. (Ivan the terrible)

 

[Jive Turkey]

Bosch is the first name that comes to my mind but really you can't go wrong with any of the surrealists.

 

[Messofanego]

Bosch would have been immediate answer because of seeing it in a history book from a young age.

I'm loving all that Zdzislaw stuff and obviously that Francis Bacon Pope thing. Must've been inspiration for Silent Hill Downpour Japanese box art.

 

[JDSN]

This somehow reminds me of Deus Ex.

Somehow?

 

[Mistle]

Wow, some amazing stuff in here.

 

[Messofanego]

Somehow?

Not even somehow.

 

[b&jy77VjiKn$#F]

Not even somehow.

Ooh, I remember now.

 

[Diamond]

Storm - Munch

Hide and Seek - Tchelitchew

Death of Marat - David

 

[PKrockin]

Never been into paintings, but I'm glad I clicked this thread.

All three are magnificent.

Wow, that decapitation one is especially astounding.

 

[Deleted member 102362]

John Singer Sargent's Gassed is pretty good. There are other amazing WW1/2 paintings that I like, but I need to remember who painted them first.

.

While I recognize some of this work, could you post the artists and titles, please?

 

[ComputerMKII]

Wow, that decapitation one is especially astounding.

The size of the painting makes it all the more intimidating - it's like the guy is actually looking down at you:

While I recognize some of this work, could you post the artists and titles, please?

Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581 (Ilya Repin, 1885)
Dante and Virgil (William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1850)
Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Grenada (Henri Regnault, 1870)

 

[rvy]

This one is fucking amazing!

 

[fallagin]

Ha, that devil's face is all like "lol"

This one always gets me, too fuckin creepy.

 

[bishopp35]

Yang Shaobin's paintings always me cringe but are fascinating at the same time. They have some in your face brutality that makes then appealing.

My avatar is a painting of him.

 

[Forkball]

As a kid I was always scared of old paintings of demons and depictions of hell. I'm probably going to hell so I hope it's not as bad.

 

[EVOL 100%]

That's a copy, and a really bad one too.

This is the original

 

[XT Vengeance]

This floored me.

That made me laugh way more than it should have. lol

 

[youngwerther]

what is the story? Links?

That's Ivan the Terrible and his son depicted in the painting. Ivan the Terrible, as befitting his name, apparently had a violent temper and was prone to angry outburts.

The story goes that Ivan and his son were having an argument and Ivan the Terrible struck out with his cane and hit his son on the head. The blow killed his son.

You can see in the painting the immediate regret, sorrow, and horror at realizing what he's done as he caresses his son like a child.

I said it's human because, while most of us have not killed our sons, I think all of us have experienced a lightning burst of anger, and then immediately regretted something that we had done.

 

[Horseticuffs]

This floored me.

The anatomy lecture of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp - Rembrandt


Christina's World - Wyeth


The Triumph of Death - Bruegel

Some really amazing stuff here, everyone! "Christina's World" is breath-taking :O
"The anatomy lecture of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp - Rembrandt" inspired one of my favorite modern artists; Wayne Barlowe.

"The examination"-

 

[GrotesqueBeauty]

That "Goya" painting is a blatant student grade copy, and I'm surprised people are reposting and referencing it. Kinda embarrassing...

There you go.

That's a copy, and a really bad one too.

Ah, beaten.

 

[Horseticuffs]

Jeez Louise, EVERYBODY is a

Spoiler

competent, diligent

fucking art critic here!


It was very early in the morning and I was on a phone! I'm SORRY!


THERE! Is *THAT* the lovingly-rendered painting of a pound of flesh you vultures were looking for?!

 

[Messofanego]

Hide and Seek - Tchelitchew

How do you pronounce that name?