Most Horrifying Painting?

[sparrowhawk]

Here's something different. Can you think of a particularly terrifying classical painting? My choice is from Greek Mythology, "Saturn Devouring His Son."

 

[ophiuchus]

8O -GAAAAAAAAAAAH!
When I saw the title of this thread, the Goya was the first to come to mind ...

 

[iamn8]

As soon as I read the thread title I knew it would be that one.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I don't know why, but William Blake's "The Ghost of a Flea" always gave me the creeps.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Was he a pipe smoker??

 

[iamn8]

Goya and his paintings... what a dark, scary as world he lived in. Almost of his is darkness brought to life. The story behind those dark paintings fits the artist. That whole black series... hauntingly creepy
This one is creepy also

 

[mortonbriar]

I find quite a lot of William Blake's paintings to be creepy, not horrifying though

 

[woodsroad]

 

[Chasing Embers]

Yeah, I really hate clowns. Really, really, really, really, hate them. 8O

 

[jpmcwjr]

No one has posted a Keane painting??
And that is the creepiest painting of a clown I've ever seen- though I generally avoid places that have painting of clowns.....

 

[aldecaker]

Hieronymus Bosch had some pretty unsettling, crack-pipe fever dreamy stuff going on.

 

[didimauw]

Sparrow and woods...you win. I'm not getting any sleep tonight...

 

[yohanan]

Ray Caesar

 

[mothernaturewilleatusallforbreakfast]

Anything Gauguin.

 

[mayfair70]

 

[jpmcwjr]

Gauguin creepy? I guess I haven't seen the right ones.

 

[theloniousmonkfish]

Darger.

 

[toobfreak]

Thank you mayfair! That cat in the elevator has got to be just about the funniest thing I've ever seen! What imagination those early animators had before political correctness ruined it all! I'm still laughing at it.

 

[beefeater33]

Zdzisław Beksiński............... His paintings are Horrific, his life was interesting...........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwO0k_OKhQI

 

[sablebrush52]

Here's a classic: