Danny van Ryswyk

07.23.12

Amsterdam-based artist Danny van Ryswyk creates strange, surreal artwork that evokes a sense of eerie melancholy, Victorian portraiture, and monstrous absurdity, using 3D technology.

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Tags: black-and-white portraits, dark, eerie, hauntingly beautiful, masks, monsteresque, neo-victorian, portraits, realism, twins, victorian

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Dolls by Arume Emura

06.13.11

Arume Emura makes beautiful, creepy, expressive custom ball-jointed dolls, wraith-like, haunted-looking, conjoined, distorted, twisted, and surreal.

Tags: bjds, distorted bodies, dolls, hauntingly beautiful, masks, sculptures, twins/doppelgangers/doubles

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Image of the Day

06.01.11

Mercury II by Marcela Bolívar

Tags: dark ethereal, hauntingly beautiful, marcela bolivar, masks, modern fairy tales, surreal, witch-priestess

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Space Oddities in Black and Silver: Erevos Aether’s “Gaping Void”

05.09.11

EREVOS AETHER’S GAPING VOID from KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU

+ Directed by Konstantinos Menelaou
+ Choreographed by Nathaniel Parchment
+ Photographed by Natalia Asimi
+ Jewelry design by Maria Piana
+ Design & styling by Erevos Aether

via Twisted Lamb

Tags: alien beauty, architectural fashion, avant-garde, avant-garde goth, dance, distorted bodies, electronic music, experimental, fashion films, futuristic, haute couture, high fashion, jewelry, masks, military/warrior chic, performance art, sci-fi, short films

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Liliroze’s Colorful Dream Photography

05.07.11

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Tags: art nudes, colorful, experimental, fashion photography, flowers in hair, hazy, masks, red, sepia, soft color, surreal, vintage

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Reddened Mouths, White Masks, Hungry Fingers

10.29.10

These are ever-so-creepy installation artworks by Israeli sculptor Ronit Baranga
(via Acidolatte):

Tags: conceptual, installation art, masks, sculptures, surreal horror, teacups

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Royal Fairy Tales and Frail Dolls

10.06.10

Lily Bloodstained AKA Mon-artifice is an amazing young photographer who does the most fantastic self-portraiture. In her richly dark imagery, she takes on the personae of tragic and baroque, 18th-century aristocrats and the like, in flour-white makeup elaborated with ink ornamentation, and half-masks, often with the theme of mirroring, fragmented, or double images. Expressive, dark, and endlessly creative, she is a true inspiration. She embodies a sense of nostalgic melancholy, and her work, though deeply emotional, is always subtle and has a certain elegant quality. Here is some of her work below. I like so many of her images that it was hard to pick!

Lily Bloodstained on DeviantArt
on Flickr
on Darkfolio
on Dirty Angels

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Tags: 18th century, baroque, historically inspired, lily bloodstained, masks, otherworldly photography, self-portraits

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