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#FaustianFriday
I wonder if shapeshifting counts as dressing up? To this purpose I present the Irish goddess The Morrigan. Her rôle as a symbol of imminent death, and to influence the outcome of war, was achieved by appearing as a crow flying overhead.
#ofdarkandmacabre
Illness struck the artist (1792-3) & left him deaf. It’s likely that the sense of isolation led to his dark & startling Caprichos (published in 1799). These were macabre images from his subconscious which continue to inhabit the viewer’s mind, once seen.
Tamara and Demon (1889) by Konstantin Makovsky (Russian, 1839-1915). Tamara and Demon was one of the illustrations to a poem by Mikhail Vrubel. The painting won the Grand Gold Medal at the Paris World Exhibition. #Dark #MacabreArt
“Skull Cult Faerie”
These Faeries have a macabre fixation with collecting skulls and fashioning them into masks.
#horror #darkart #nightcore #skull #skullmask #witch #witchcraft #red #faeire #fairy #fantasy #darkfantasy #demongirl #goth #gothic #fairycore #goblin #pastelgoth
shimmering specular lens refracting macabre bubbles that effervesce into dawn mist
#aiart #aiartists #art #ai #machinelearning #ml #vqgan #gan #diffusion #digitalart #generativeart #deepdream
How could he not write & illustrate such macabre Victorian tales with a name like Edward St. John Gorey?
Heya, call me Dia. I'm a self taught artist who mainly draws macabre, fantasy or nature related illustrations. All my accounts are +18.
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Happy birthday to the artist of the whimsically macabre, illustrator as well as set designer for the 1970's Broadway version of "Dracula", the legendary Edward Gorey (R.I.P)