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A Collection of Spine-Chilling Artworks
Welcome to our Spooky Gallery, where everyone is sure to get chills together!
Join us in adding a dose of spookiness this Halloween season with timeless works of art, each accompanied by its fascinating history and mysterious tales filled with intrigue and wonder.
Explore every corner, and you'll uncover the eerie secrets hidden within these captivating artworks!
1.The Scream - Edvard Munch
The image of a screaming person against a red-tinged sky, through the curves used in the image, creates a sense of unease, fear, and insecurity.
"The Scream" by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is a portrait of a man with a terrified expression, with a person walking away in the background and a red sky above.
Munch mentioned the origin of the scream in his diary entry on January 22, 1892: "I was walking along the street with two friends. The sun was setting. Suddenly the sky turned red. I stopped, exhausted, and leaned against the railing. It was as if blood and flames were floating above the fjord and the city where I was. My friends had left, but I was still there, shaking with anxiety, and I could feel the scream coming from there."
The location of the image is said to be the Egebar hill overlooking Oslo and the Oslo Fjord. At the time of the painting, Munch was visiting his bipolar sister in a psychiatric hospital at the foot of the mountain.
In 1978, American art historian Robert Rosenblum speculated that Munch may have been inspired to paint the terrified figure by a Peruvian mummy he had seen at the 1889 World Fair in Paris, attempting to explain the color of the sky in the painting.
Another theory is that it was inspired by Munch's memory of the sky affected by the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano a decade earlier, which had turned the evening sky in the Western Hemisphere red for months. Another theory is that it was caused by nacreous clouds (or polar stratospheric clouds), clouds that form in the stratosphere and diffract light into rainbows.
The Scream is one of the best-known works and one of the most influential works of the Expressionist movement of the early 20th century. The painting's anxious expression and distorted environment have often been associated with mental disorders. It has also influenced later works such as the Ghostface mask in the Scream film series, the Silence character in Doctor Who series, and numerous parodies, which have even become memes to this day.
2. Judith with the Head of Holofernes - David Teniers
The painting depicting Judith beheading Holofernes is a dramatic piece, with intense light and shadow, conveying both terror and triumph.
Judith, a Jewish heroine, saves the city of Bethulia by seducing and beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes, who is about to destroy her home. Judith is a popular figure in Baroque painting, appearing with her maidservant and Holofernes' severed head as a trophy.
3. The Headless Horseman
The "Headless Horseman" or "Headless Demon" is a legendary demon in European folklore since the Middle Ages. According to different stories, some say that he is a horseman who holds his own head, or has no head at all, and may be searching for his own head. The Headless Horseman has inspired many films and literature.
An example of a character like "Dullahan" from Ireland, a demon who rides a horse and holds his own head under his arm, and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", a short story written in 1820 by American writer Washington Irving, which has been adapted into many literary works and films, including Disney's 1949 animated film "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" and Tim Burton's 1999 film "Sleepy Hollow".
4. Madame Kisling - Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani's artwork inspired the horror film IT
In one scene in the film, a strange-looking painting of a young woman playing a flute appears to Stan, a young Jewish boy. In the film, the woman in the painting escapes and ends up outside the painting.
Mukiati, the director of the film, revealed that Amedeo Modigliani's painting inspired Judith, the demon in the painting, based on a painting by Modigliani that was in his childhood home.
"It's a very direct take on a personal fear from my childhood. When I was a kid, I had a print of a Modigliani painting hanging in my house. I remember being so scared of it. And the idea that the woman in the painting would come out and haunt me at any moment was very paranoid and scary.
Modigliani would always paint people in strange ways. Long necks, distorted faces, sunken eyes, white, I didn't know what kind of art it was. “I just see them as scary, like demons,” the director of the latest IT film says of his haunting memories of Modigliani’s paintings.
Modigliani was an Italian-Jewish painter and sculptor known for his modernist portraits and nudes. His paintings are characterized by their elongated proportions and masked faces, influenced by the work of Brancusi and African art. His paintings capture the gloom and heartbreak of an artist who burned himself into the fire of his art.
Information courtesy of WURKON
5. A Witches' Sabbath - Cornelis Saftleven
A witch riding a goat and holding a broomstick rushes out from the left edge of the screen to drive away dozens of demons. Dogs rush forward as if to attack the demons. The most prominent character is a figure that looks like an ancient Greek Satyr, half man, half goat, with intricately detailed butterfly wings reminiscent of the fairies in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
If you look further into the background, in addition to the chaos in the foreground, you will see a pack of fierce wolves fighting, chased by swirling waves like sea waves, and bright flames hitting the demons’ bodies, suggesting that they were burned alive or that some of their souls had been torn from their bodies.
This theme has long been popular in Northern Europe because it combines supernatural horror with physical science.
6. The Headless Horseman
This painting is part of Goya’s “Black Paintings” series, and depicts the god Saturn devouring his own children. It is a brutal, terrifying and destructive image, a perfect example of terror and darkness.
In 1819, Francisco Goya bought a house south of Madrid called the Quinta del Sordo (Villa of the Deaf Man). The previous owner of the house was deaf, and Goya himself lost his hearing in his mid-forties. Goya painted on the plaster walls of the Quinta a series of 14 deeply psychological paintings, known as the “Black Paintings.” These frescoes were never published and were later removed from the walls, transferred to canvas and are now in the Prado Museum.
The terrifying painting “Saturn Devouring His Son” depicts the myth of the Roman god Saturn, who, fearing that his children would overthrow him, devours his own children.
This painting may represent the wrath of God, the conflict between old age and youth. Or is it that Saturn is a symbol of the consuming time, and the way many of Goya's paintings reflect the horrors of war and human cruelty? The darkness in Saturn's paintings reflects the observation of the famous art critic John Berger, who said, "The light in Goya's work is merciless because it shows cruelty."
7. Dance of Death : The Old Woman - Hans Holbein
It is a medieval art that invites people of all classes to dance to death, which may be interpreted as part of the rise of Protestantism, which condemned extravagance and excess.
The Old Woman is one of the few paintings in Holbein's series that depicts Death, one leading an old woman, while the other speeds ahead, accompanied by a dance. The agile movements and musical accompaniment make this scene a response to the original idea of the "Dance of Death", a dancing skeleton leading a slow human to death.
It reflects the other end of society, with the hunched old woman, dressed in tattered clothes, appearing without the ornate architecture behind her or the beautiful clothing of the other paintings. Death's gesture is also different.
Some critics have suggested that Death's arm is raised to strike the old woman, while others see the raised arm as part of the dance. Combined with the raised leg and the ornaments on his head, Death seems to have a strange compassion for the old woman, not as violent as in the earlier paintings.
8. The Nightmare - Henry Fuseli
"The young woman sleeps, with a demon sitting on her, and a horse peeking through the curtains, expressing her nightmare."
Stipple technique by M.J. Schmidt
The Nightmare is an oil painting painted in 1781 by Swiss artist Henry Fuseli. It depicts a woman sleeping soundly with her arms crossed below her, and a monkey-like incubus lurking on her chest. The painting is a dreamy and haunting depiction of sexual passion.
After its first exhibition at the Royal Academy of London in 1782, critics reacted with fascination and astonishment, and the work became so popular that it was even parodied as a political satire and widely sold as engravings. In response, Fuseli produced no fewer than three versions of the work.
The work has been interpreted in many ways, with the canvas seemingly depicting both the dreaming woman and the content of her nightmare, with the demon and the horse's head suggesting the beliefs and folklore associated with nightmares of the time. However, contemporary critics were shocked by the painting's explicit sexual content. Later, some scholars interpreted it as a prediction of Jung's concept of the unconscious.
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