Black and white close up of a found doll buried in the sand at the beach

Dark Art

  • Scales

    Scales

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    Stills About Scales Scales is a project born from a dialogue between photographer Nicola Spadafranca and a sound designer Enrico Nicola Cascavilla. Cascavilla interpreted Spadafranca’ photographic project “Squame” making a short moving experimental video art using just the photographs. Cascavilla found a story through the photos that he told just with sound and a cinematic editing…

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  • Nicholas Nadja

    Nicholas Nadja

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    Haunting and surreal oil paintings by Chicago-based artist Nicholas Nadja. Nadja paints a world slightly off. A still life consisting of veiny-foot vase with sunflowers. A nude, headless female torso hanging from fish hooks and growing roots. (Titled Looking Through The Window Of An Abolished Trinity.) A cubist portrait where the subjects seems to be grimacing…

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  • Jarek Kubicki Digital Paintings

    Jarek Kubicki Digital Paintings

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    Polish artist Jerek Kubicki creates painterly, mostly monochromatic digital paintings. The work feels almost like the demonic lovechild of Jackson Pollock and Zdzislaw Beksinski. I love it. It’s brilliant. It appears as though Kubicki is painting on his photography, or photographing his painting (or both) and melding digital and organic seamlessly together. Recurring themes include the…

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  • The Invisible Empire by Juha Arvid Helminen

    The Invisible Empire by Juha Arvid Helminen

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    The Invisible Empire series by Juha Arvid Helminen depicts figures of authority in all black, against dark or black landscapes with their faces obscured.  The series revels in darkness, anonymity and brutality. I’ve had an irrational fear of the potential that “the crowd” become (in experiences as mundane as a sports game) since I was young. A few years ago…

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  • Zdzisław Beksiński: The Awesome and Fascinating Dystopian Surrealist

    Zdzisław Beksiński: The Awesome and Fascinating Dystopian Surrealist

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    Zdzisław Beksiński Born: February 24, 1929; Sanok, Poland  Died: February 21, 2005; Warsaw, PolandActive Years: 1955 – 2005Nationality: PolishArt Movement: Surrealism Zdzisław Beksiński was born on 24 February 1929 in Sanok, southern Poland. He studied architecture at the Krakow University of Technology. He survived World War II and continued to draw provocative pieces during Communist times in Poland, when many forms of art were frowned upon,…

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