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Fortean Art

I love the macabre “Two Beauties” – never heard of Wiertz before, thanks. There must be something in the water in Belgium, because it seems to have produced more painters of the Weird than any other European country.

These are a few of my favourite off-the-wall C19th Symbolist painters and illustrators fwiw:

Xavier Mellery http://grail80.cafe24.com/bbs/data/diar ... Autumn.jpg

http://www.art-memoires.com/lm/l1214/14psillmel.JPG

Felicien Rops http://www.fulltable.com/r/im02/rops.jpg (which for some reason was thought to be suitable material to be made into a postage stamp in Belgium!)

Alfred Kubin http://art.gothic.ru/paint/kubin/index_e.htm

Max Klinger http://art.gothic.ru/paint/klinger/index_e.htm

http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/imag/1969/0 ... 03-m01.jpg
 
I haven't seen it posted to this thread yet so hopefully this isn't a dupe.

But These Paintings by Mark Ryden, one of my favorite 'outsider' artists, would look lovely above the sofa.

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I first became aware of Ryden in a magazine called Juxtapoz, one of those outsider, tattoo, motorcycle art magazines that have become more popular in recent years.

I especially love his painting entitled 'Christina' which is a bizarre, yet somehow strangely representative portrait of one of my favorite tiny actresses, Christina Ricci.

"She wasn't sick. She was sloppy. If I wanted to kill my husband, I would. And I wouldn't get caught." (or something like that) :D
 
Anthony Clifton said:
I haven't seen it posted to this thread yet so hopefully this isn't a dupe.

But These Paintings by Mark Ryden, one of my favorite 'outsider' artists, would look lovely above the sofa.

:twisted:

I first became aware of Ryden in a magazine called Juxtapoz, one of those outsider, tattoo, motorcycle art magazines that have become more popular in recent years.

I especially love his painting entitled 'Christina' which is a bizarre, yet somehow strangely representative portrait of one of my favorite tiny actresses, Christina Ricci.

"She wasn't sick. She was sloppy. If I wanted to kill my husband, I would. And I wouldn't get caught." (or something like that) :D
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WOW, those images are truly amazing!!!

Would definitely like a few hanging above my sofa.

:twisted:
 
I always thought the artwork of Louis Wain was pretty frightening, in the latter years anyway...

I think its interesting to see how his art changed as his illness progressed.

there's a sample of his stuff here
 
Re: Nikolay Roerich

Gloria X said:
Here's a great artist known to every Russian - Nicholas (Nikolay) Roerich. As a young artist, he worked with Stravinsky, Skriabin and other turn-of-century musicians. He was also a philosopher, historian, and seeker of hidden scrolls of wisdom. All his life he looked for ancient cultural and spiritual connections between Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and secret Oriental cults. In his quest for Shambala's esoteric knowledge and 'teachers' appearing to chosen mortals to bring it (he insisted that there was evidence of that), he travelled to India, Ceylon, China, Nepal, Tibet, Assam, Ladakh, and the Himalayas, where through his immense knowledge he made friends with many lamas, but also had to endure mountain cold and heat of Central Asian deserts, and repel many bandit raids. Roerich remains a gigantic figure, his philosophical and art works are still hugely popular in modern Russia where there are thousands of his intellectual followers. Roerich's books and road journals were published in the U.S. before WWII. He moved to Northern India where he lived until his death, as this was as close he could get to the hidden land. This is a link to his virtual museum (beautifully done):

http://www.roerich.ru/index.php?r=800&l=eng

He believed that Jesus took a journey to the Himalayas in search of truth, and here's one illustration of this belief:
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Wow, i thought Lovecraft made up Roerich...

(i looked at this thread to see if it mentioned "Pickman's Model", btw...)

Looks like some of Roerich's paintings reference Sophian/Gnostic Goddess worship stuff as well (i particularly like "Saint Sophia - The Almighty Wisdom"). Definitely worth getting further into...

(his style is also quite different from what i imagined it to look like from reading "At The Mountains Of Madness" - i was imagining a much more Gothic/Renaissance, "realistic" textures and mostly dark backgrounds kind of style. Can definitely see the resemblance in some of those paintings like "Silvery Realm" and "Thang La" tho...)

edit: this one makes me think of "The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath": http://www.roerich.ru/main.php?id=196&s=title&d=&l=eng

as does this one: http://www.roerich.ru/main.php?id=10&s=title&d=&l=eng
 
Anthony Clifton said:
I haven't seen it posted to this thread yet so hopefully this isn't a dupe.

But These Paintings by Mark Ryden, one of my favorite 'outsider' artists, would look lovely above the sofa.

:twisted:
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His paintings are almost to Margaret Keane's paintings what the Garbage Pail Kids were to the Cabbage Patch Kids. :D

Some of the great old ones here. Check out Yerka's stuff too. (Below Escher's stuff).
 
Re: Not really scary...

Onix said:
but phantasmagorical and ethereal, Remedios Varo is one of my favourite artists, along with Dali and Ernst. I find some of her images disturbing for some reason, but in the end also very pleasant.

Here's a link to a gallery of her works:

http://www.turingmachine.org/remedios/expo.html
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Leonora Carrington was an artist who was friends with, and a part of the same art scene in Mexico as, Remedios Varo. Their styles influenced each other. Both artists have seen into my dreams. ;)

A few links:
http://www.tendreams.org/carrington.htm
http://www.mexconnect.com/MEX/kyron/kycarrington.html
and more if you search google images although there are some great ones I haven't been able to find on the net but which can be found in the book Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art.
 
I love Roerich too. I have a copy of his very thought provoking book, `Shamballa`
 
Check out this guy. He is classed as contemporary art but I find his work fascinating. He is scottish and I see his paintings in a gallery in Eton High Street regularly, although the owner of hte gallery keeps buying the paintings for himself!! I find the darkness and the loneliness in his paintings absolutely fascinating and can stand for hours just staring at his work. His name is Graeme Wilcox

http://www.blackheath-gallery.co.uk/cr2 ... wilcox.htm
 
Another very Fortean and rather disturbing "outsider" artist profiled in yesterday's Observer... Henry Darger

Sort of reminds me of (prefigures?) some of the odder Japanese anime art IMO... wonder if he is big in Japan?
 
AnthonyClifton said:
I haven't seen it posted to this thread yet so hopefully this isn't a dupe.

But These Paintings by Mark Ryden, one of my favorite 'outsider' artists, would look lovely above the sofa.

:twisted:
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I was just looking at his stuff and thought I'lll post this on the FTMB although I'm sure someone has beaten me to it (which they had ;) ). Here is his main page:

www.markryden.com

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See also Laurie Lipton's work:

www.laurielipton.com
 
I think I used the word “gummy” because the coloration of many of Grasse’s images reminds me of gummy worms/bears or something like that.

Another favorite of mine is Ofer Alon (also known as Pixelator/pixolator), a 3D artist who uses the software Zbrush to create beautifully textured images.

His art includes the “RRR” series of characters each of which had “rrr” in their name including Darrrcula which is the coolest vampire I've ever seen and also Garrr, the coolest demon I’ve ever seen.

Here are some galleries of his work:
http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?B ... =Pixolator

http://3dlinks.com/GalleryDisplay.cfm?ArtistID=460

He's definitely my favorite 3D artist, though there's a lot of other great 3D artists out there.
 
That's new to me - many thanks. :D
 
Found this on http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/adventures-in-the-ultra-body-field/

These diagrams were drawn over a period of several months, and represent an investigation into connections between our reality, the outer structure of our world and the hidden world, which I call the Ultra-body field. My starting point was an anomaly in a piece of Selenite rock, which I have magnified. The diagrams should be viewed in order.
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Fascinating drawings - they have a Shaver look-and-feel:
http://www.megatronicland.org.uk/Diagrams/diagrams.html
 
A lot of his stuff is quite reminiscent of Bosch, sort of hell and day of wrath type stuff.
 
I have been studying Edgar Allan Poe's 'the man of the crowd' at college and he refers to an artist named Retszch who seems to be similar in style to Durer, is anyone aware of his work? I have only seen one wood cut type image.. Also Austin Osman Spare is an amazing artist and was profiled in FT a few years ago. George Herriman, the genius behind the long lived Krazy Kat series is my favourite Fortean artist, there is a childlike innocence and wonder in the shifting desert landscapes that really mess with your perception.
 
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