Creepyest painting ever

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27 Feb 2008, 5:05 am

Ya'll should check this out:

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Is it me, or is that immensly disturbing?

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27 Feb 2008, 5:14 am

I think it's you.

But I'm not infallible.

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27 Feb 2008, 5:18 am

I don't find that to be particularly creepy. HR Giger's 'Pump Excursion' OTOH, is definately a creepy painting.

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27 Feb 2008, 5:21 am

not creepy - i think he is the predator and she is the innocent.

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27 Feb 2008, 5:31 am

I guess it's subjective.

I demand a contest! A contest to find the new creepyest painting ever!

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27 Feb 2008, 6:12 am

are you looking for something disturbing just for the sakes of looking for something disturbing?

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27 Feb 2008, 8:23 am

Fogman wrote:

I don't find that to be particularly creepy. HR Giger's 'Pump Excursion' OTOH, is definately a creepy painting.

The first one I didn't think was, but that one... yep. It is creepy, soon as you figure out what the red eyed one is holding, and that it's actauly a high heal shoe pressing into their gutt. uhm.. well.. uhm..

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27 Feb 2008, 8:37 am

you misspelled crappiest

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27 Feb 2008, 9:50 am

The first one looked kind normal, except the spiders made it weird. The second one was a disgusting parody of something you never want to see IRL.

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27 Feb 2008, 12:01 pm

Shayne wrote:

are you looking for something disturbing just for the sakes of looking for something disturbing?

Sure. Creepy/macabre artwork is my favourite genre.

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you misspelled crappiest

Oh, come now. You can say it's not creepy for you and i'll believe, but now you're just distorting the truth... :wink:

The second one I didn't find very creepy.

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27 Feb 2008, 4:25 pm

If you want creepy paintings, Zdzislaw Beksinski's paintings are nightmare-inducing.

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27 Feb 2008, 4:43 pm

I found the first painting to be quite amusing - there are obvious sexual connotations but only for people with filthy minds (like me)

I find most of Giger's paintings to be awesome and creepy, though not pump excursion. His creepiest ones are those where you look for a while and then later on, you notice things you didn't see before - sort of a painting based paradigm shift.

of course, the one that has always creeped me out was this one.

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27 Feb 2008, 6:56 pm

Creep show topic

Dear gbollard: What is the thing supended on the left of the picture?

Disturbing, and something Julius Streicher would have printed. :evil:

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27 Feb 2008, 7:20 pm

The Picture is "The Nightmare" (1781) by Henry Fuseli.

Wikipedia on The Nightmare.

"Emerging from a part in the curtain is the head of a horse with bold, featureless eyes"

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....Germanic tales about demons and witches that possessed people who slept alone. In these stories, men were visited by horses or hags, giving rise to the terms "hag-riding" and "mare-riding", and women were believed to engage in sex with the devil.

Horses in the bed are generally not a good idea (see Flying High and The Godfather).

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