The Temptation of St Anthony


This subject has been painted as well as etched by many interesting artists over the centuries. From the earlier etchings of Shongauer to Bosch's elaborate triptych and recently with Ernst and Dali's versions, The Temptation of St Anthony has given each artist the chance to express some of their strangest fantasies.

Max Ernst
Salvador Dali
Pieter Brueghel The Elder
Jan Brueghel The Elder
Hieronymus Bosch's Triptych.
Click here to see larger versions of each panel.
Martin Shongauer
Click here to see a manipulated version of Shongauer's etching.
Matthias Grunewald
Click here to see a large detail of Gruenwald's painting.
Lucas Cranach
Jacques Callot
Bela Kondor

Gunsho - Demonology
"Gunsho is undertaking an intensive effort to create modern interpretations of the 72 demons of the Goetia and other works of demonology, to be completed by the end of 2006. Each demon will be the subject of a print, and the series is to be titled DEMONOLOGY."

Link found at Artdorks.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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!

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.
Single Image

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.