The Art of Blackdante
So lovely.
See her online portfolio here.
Tags: alien beauty, art nudes, emotive, expressive, flour-white face, hauntingly beautiful, horror photography, implied horror, medical-themed, otherworldly photography, photomanipulation, religious imagery, soft color, strange beauty, surreal
Demonic Visions and Sacred Images: The Art of Roberto Ferri
Tags: (twists on) traditional art, angels, art nudes, classicism, fleshy, photorealism, realism, religious imagery, renaissance, virtuoso
Satanic Reveries: Paintings by David Stoupakis
David Stoupakis’ meticulously crafted, realistically rendered, colorful paintings contrast innocence with sin and corruption, and are reminiscent of medieval religious paintings, inverting that religiosity with a sinister perspective. His work reflects the influence of past, traditional art, evoking an almost classic sense of harmony, in the way that the paintings are composed and the backgrounds are rendered, and his subjects are also drawn from the Victorian era.
In my very humble opinion, Catholicism is the sexiest of the major religions, with the most striking visceral/visual impact, and Stoupakis uses his subversion of that element to create a sense of enthrallment and delight in his self-contained, perfectly framed paintings filled with symbolic objects and done in bold colors.
Tags: apples, children, classicism, cryptic, david stoupakis, innocence/menace, modern fairy tales, neo-victorian, pop surrealism, religious imagery, symbolism, twins/doppelgangers/doubles
“Immune”: Floria Sigismondi
Floria Sigismondi is an Italian-Canadian photographer, director, and filmmaker who breaks the boundaries between mainstream and alternative visual culture. She has worked with many high-profile artists on their music videos, including Björk, The Cure, Marilyn Manson, and The White Stripes. Her personal projects and commercial work both amaze me with their preternatural beauty and color.
Floria’s vivid, hallucinatory images are morbid, beautiful, and hyper[sur]real. Her works take place in a strange, artificial, and gorgeously colorful world of her own – film stills from her videos could be taken for photo-art and vice versa.
Tags: floria sigismondi, medical-themed, music videos, otherworldly photography, religious imagery, saturated color, self-portraits, surreal horror, virgin mary
MishMash [001]: Animal Skull, Anatomical, Macabre, and Gothy Goodness
+ Leather/jet-black collar and shoulder piece by Mascherina
[Modern Mourning]Tags: anatomical-themed, animal skulls, avant-garde goth, haute couture, jewelry, neo-victorian, religious imagery, skeleton
Anatomy of Heaven: Dino Valls
Dino Valls is a Spanish painter of exquisite, piercing surreal works which explore the human body as representative of the psyche, medical analogies, religious imagery, and sexuality. Beautiful and photorealistic, his paintings have a sense of classicism and an incredible technical virtuosity that will blow you away.
The figures often have a beautiful, heavenly cast to their faces, reminiscent of classics by old masters and medieval religious paintings. In these beautiful and disturbing works, the body is portrayed as fragmented, segmented, doubled, vivisected, deformed, and androgynous – both oddity and sacrosanct vessel. Body parts are displaced and represent the damaged state of the whole person. Scores of needles adorn the figures.
These images illustrate powerful statements about the way that the modern body is invaded, pried into, operated upon, examined, measured, and manipulated, making a commentary on the impersonal, objectifying treatment of modern medicine. There is often a disembodied hand taking hold of the subject in a possessive way, evoking the cold, clinical, authoritative touch of doctors, with sexual and sinister overtones. The surgery they perform on the people is symbolic and laden with dark meanings.
I love the genius way in which Valls uses anatomical symbolism and naked, human vulnerability to create such powerful, resonant images, and the way that he both perverts and glorifies the human form and human spirit.
Lots and lots of pictures below.
Tags: anatomical-themed, art nudes, classicism, medical-themed, religious imagery, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, vivisected
“The Exorcism of…” by Anti Sweden
I love the movement in this video, the crazy, dark kinetic energy. This is one of the few films/”trailers” for fashion labels that I can truly say I like.
+ Directed by Marius Tharaldsen and modeled by Vilde Victoria Madsen + for design agency Anti’s newly launched black denim line, “Anti Sweden.” + Inspired by the Norwegian “culture of darkness” and the spirit of black metal’s aesthetics.
Tags: black metal, dance, fashion films, insanity, religious imagery
Heaven by Felice Fawn
Two incredible images, titled Heaven and Purgatory, respectively, from Felice Fawn:
Tags: amazing makeup, art nudes, felice fawn, medical-themed, otherworldly photography, religious imagery, virgin mary, white hair
Virgin Mary-Inspired Imagery from Miles Aldridge
These are by fashion photographer Miles Aldridge.
Tags: crown, halo, religious imagery, virgin mary
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