Maybe such a thread can be of use. I also suppose most of these works are by now in the public domain (can be used in games too) :)
I like expressionism and a subtype of surrealism, so De Chirico, Munch and similar. Here are two paintings, the first by De Chirico, the second by Odilon Redon.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7d/32/b5/7d32b5f0c8e3f1ea5bb8204bfd57777b.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Odilon_Redon_-_The_Monster.jpg)
I'm not sure if it's what you are loking for, however this is Klemens Brosch's Phantasie
[imgzoom]http://static2.nachrichten.at/storage/image/4/7/7/5/1575774_grundtext-561_1qFY9A_NJzSHt.jpg[/imgzoom]
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Is this some kind of dragon?
Better than the Little Prince, I suppose :-D
I've always liked the art of Caspar David Friedrich, famous for many paintings of dusk and dawn:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9b/27/32/9b2732ad0d20746a2fb3b06e2ee23c5c.jpg)
Ah! C.D. Friedrich was my second pick! :-D
So, let's continue with Sidney Sime's Mung and the beast of Mung
(https://live.staticflickr.com/2414/5805753437_2d3501599b_b.jpg)
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[imgzoom]https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/germann-master/item_images/images/000/031/639/large/938069_1.jpg?1556612816[/imgzoom]
[imgzoom]http://lcart3.narod.ru/image/fantasy/giger/ot/hr_giger_nationalpark_I.jpg[/imgzoom]
[imgzoom]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/M_m2vTNr7dE/maxresdefault.jpg[/imgzoom]
guess who...
It's awesome when you use this guy's paintings as cover art of games (https://www.mobygames.com/game/jaseiken-necromancer/cover-art) (no, not Darkseed).
Great topic guys. I like Friedrich especially.
My favourite painting is Pieter Brueghel's the Triumph of Death:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/The_Triumph_of_Death_by_Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder.jpg)
Came across it unexpectedly in the Prado which was a treat.
I also like Böcklin's The Isle of the Dead:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Arnold_B%C3%B6cklin_-_Die_Toteninsel_I_%28Basel%2C_Kunstmuseum%29.jpg/1024px-Arnold_B%C3%B6cklin_-_Die_Toteninsel_I_%28Basel%2C_Kunstmuseum%29.jpg)
Giger is good :) Afaik he spraypainted his works (?)
Here is another by him, "Shaft #7":
(http://cursedpoet.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/hr_giger_schacht_VII.jpg)
My favorite artist for eery and dark paintings is Zdzislaw Beksinski. He also seems to have a pretty tragic background story.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V8siOOzLR80/TJAPoAjWVfI/AAAAAAAAAuM/-USpRXpyVCQ/s400/am_zdzislaw_beksinski095_1976.jpg)
(https://www.ismorbo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/zdzislaw-beksinski-07.jpg)
(https://www.ismorbo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/zdzislaw-beksinski-08.jpg)
While I like Beksinski, his style (imo) just isn't distinctive enough to make him a top artist.
A few of his paintings are very cool, regardless.
Quote from: KyriakosCH on Mon 15/03/2021 18:45:44
While I like Beksinski, his style (imo) just isn't distinctive enough to make him a top artist.
Really? I thought he had a pretty recognizable style.
Anyway, it's nice to see so many other Friedrich fans here, I might as well post another great painting of his, this one I even used as a base for a MAGS background:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Leipzig%2C_Museum_der_bildenden_K%C3%BCnste%2C_Caspar_David_Friedrich%2C_Friedhof_im_Schnee.JPG)
Though this one here below probably speaks more to me as a Swede! :P
(https://static.dw.com/image/19025613_403.jpg)
QuoteQuote from: KyriakosCH on Yesterday at 18:45
While I like Beksinski, his style (imo) just isn't distinctive enough to make him a top artist.
Really? I thought he had a pretty recognizable style.
I also think his style is recognizable, or at least he has reoccuring themes in his paintings, that show his fingerprint. Like modelling objects out of bones. But I am also not so strict when comes to changing styles since I feel an artist can reinvent him/herself all the time.
There are many dark-weird paintings of Geliy Mikhailovich Korzhev, I choose this Tiurlikis because I saw it once in black & white and I really thought it was a prerendered 3D graphic!
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ae/5d/c6/ae5dc60466c9e627066c95e82bd5259a.png)
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I was looking for a different painting by Alfred Kubin (the one with the person with the huge head, who really means to enter your room), but this will have to do:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/95/c3/c2/95c3c2937bef322bf8ab301b6cf53e7c.jpg)