Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko
This gallery contains a large selection of surreal landscapes and characters. Most if not all of the work is symbolic of some mathematical equation similar to M.C Escher's drawings.

Click here to see a couple of Fomenko's best works.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Rob Sato
Some very unusual creatures and a short comic about "a girl afflicted with a supernatural eating disorder." Sato's paintings of abstracted monster things are some of the best I've seen in awhile.

Monday, May 15, 2006

M.Hutter
This gallery contains a very peculiar mix of erotic art alongside imagery of monsters. There's a great selection of color paintings, ink drawings and even digital photo manipulations. This is one of my favorite images from the site.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Heinz Zander
The fantastic paintings of Zander reveal a world of humans coexisting with bizarre beasts and human hybrids. The work has some similarity in style to that of José Hernández.
The site seems to have no English version but it is easy enough to navigate through. Check out the link at the top titled "Verkaufsausstellung " and click on Zander's name in the upper left to see a few more of his paintings.


Thanks for suggesting this artist to me, Fufu!

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Oleh Denysenko
The detailed etchings of Oleh contain figures wearing very fantastic armor. Much of the armor has fragments of architecture, making some of the figures appear as much like surreal buildings as people. On the second page of the gallery there is a smaller selection of sculptures made by the artist, all equally as unusual as his etchings.

You will find another work by Oleh in the top right image of this gallery.

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Roberto Matta
One of my favorite artists, Matta's paintings are jammed full of insane fragmented architecture and landscapes. Human like characters are abstracted to the point of resembling their machinery and architecture like surroundings. This is one of the best online resources for an artist. There are over 1,000 images, all of them in great quality.

Monday, May 08, 2006

Andrzej Masianis
Here are many incredibly detailed drawings and paintings exploring fantastic realms filled with angels and monsters.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Henry Clarke















I discovered the illustrations of Clarke in my teens within a copy of Edgar Allen Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination". His Art Nouveau style with the skeletal figures and strikingly bizarre creatures have stayed in my head ever since.

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I came across the above image here. If anyone knows where I could find more examples by this artist or even their name, please tell me, thanks!

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Boris Artzybasheff
I discovered the art of Boris in an older issue of Blab. I was amazed at the reinterpretation of the human body as factory and war machines. He made many illustrations for Time magazine. His trademark seems to have been giving human like appearances to vehicles and other machinery.

2nd Gallery
3rd Gallery
There's some giant anti Nazi drawings posted here.
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Nemo Ramjet
This gallery contains a great selection of unique looking creatures and very mutated humans. Nemo appears to have a wide range of styles but my favorite is where he appears influenced by Moebius. Click on the numbers below to see a few of my favorite works from the site.

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And don't miss his sketch pages, there's some really strange beasts like this in there.

Monday, May 01, 2006

Otake Shigeo's "Secrets of Plant Worms House"
Shigeo is one of the most interesting artists I've discovered this year. The paintings are filled with very alien looking plant life and creatures. Some of the work reminds me of Jim Woodring, Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington.

Sunday, April 30, 2006

José Guadalupe Posada
Posada was a Mexican illustrator who had a tendency to draw a lot of skeletons. His imagery is often filled with very dark scenes of disaster, torture and demonic creatures attacking people. He also made a wide variety of political cartoons which often included the previously mentioned types of imagery. Here is a link to my favorite work of his which you can see a part of in the image linking to one of his larger online galleries.

2nd Gallery
3rd Gallery