Among all the peaceful still lives, noble portraits and soothing art pieces, there are paintings that give audiences a more unsettling and disturbing view on creativity. These paintings go from mildly weird or strange to absolutely shocking and deranged. Can you handle these 25 disturbing art pieces? Many have tried and many have failed. Caution: Contains disturbing images.
20. Untitled Painting
en.wikipedia.org This dreary oil painting by Polish author Zdislaw Beksinski does not have a name. We only know it was painted in 1984, in the period when Beksinski´s main subject was utopian realism, surreal architecture and doomsday scenarios.
15. Study after Velazquez´s Portrait of Pope Innocent X
www.artchive.com One of the most famous paintings by Francis Bacon was completed in 1953. The work is one of a series of over 45 variants of the Velázquez painting which Bacon executed throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. In Bacon´s version, the pope is depicted screaming with sinister drapes on a dark, blurry background.
10. Gallowgate Lard
www.bbc.co.uk This thick oil painting by Scottish author Ken Currie is supposed to be his self portrait. Currie specialized in grim, socio-realistic subjects and depicted the bleak urban life of the Scottish working class.
5. The Nightmare
www.andrewgrahamdixon.com An oil painting by Swiss painter Henry Fuseli; The Nightmare was first displayed at the annual Royal Academy Exhibition in London in 1782 where it shocked visitors as well as the critics.
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