History Sandbox / NightmareFuelArtCleanup

* Laurie Lipton has done ''so much'' weird, creepy and downright scary art. [[http://beinart.org/modules/PHP-gallery/gallery_ImageView.php?gallery_id=511ℑ_id=1138 Someone clawing a wall full of faces while a joyful person dances next to them]]. [[http://www.shredesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Laurie-Lipton-arts-3.jpg People eating in a TV room MADE OF faces, skulls, and reaching arms]]. [[http://www.shredesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Laurie-Lipton-arts-32.jpg A toddler with a knife and a freaky gleeful grin, waiting for their mom]]. [[http://img.shockblast.net/2011/04/ShockBlast_2011-Pandoras-Box1.jpeg Screaming heads flooding out of a music box held by a blank-staring doll]]. ''And that's not even the most fucked-up of it''. [[http://www.laurielipton.com/ Here's a link to her website]]
* The art of [[http://keiththompsonart.com/index.html Keith Thompson]] is characterized by unbelievable amounts of BodyHorror, {{Squick}} and general creepiness. His "Undead" series are probably the worst - in particular, [[SchmuckBait for the love of God do not look at his]] [[http://keiththompsonart.com/pages/pripyatbeast.html Pripyat Beast!]]
** He actually made a book on how to draw the undead.
* Neil Blevins's horror-ish pieces are rare, but they are ''major''. One, "[[http://www.neilblevins.com/artgallery/artgallery.pl?image=alternative_birth Alternative Birth]]", has a bundle of wires/feelers coming out of someone's belly. [[https://www.artstation.com/artwork/AlYvy This triangle-shaped Cacodemon's]] mouth is lined with eyes and full of pointy teeth. And [[http://www.neilblevins.com/artgallery/artgallery.pl?image=hive_mind_1 this is a giant, floating mass of tentacles]] ''full of glowing eyes''. [[http://www.neilblevins.com/artgallery/artgallery_thumbnails_by_category.html Blevins gallery link]]
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-S862p69B0 "Transfiguration"]] artistic performances, by French painter and performer Olivier de Sagazan, is focused on a man altering himself his face, several times. In truly NightmareFace ways.
* [[http://i.imgur.com/Fgjqzp5.jpg The infamous Smile Dog]] used to be the page graphic of the main NightmareFuel page, but it worked a little ''[[{{GoneHorriblyRight}} too]]'' well. The picture is a composite of [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/smile%20dog/shawn_m_todd/smile_dog2.jpg this picture]] and [[http://media.photobucket.com/image/smile%20dog/crazeboy/smilegirl.jpg this one,]] both of which are also Photoshopped and both of which are plenty scary on their own.
* The work of [[https://williamburkeart.com/personal-work William Burke]], the closest to an American Creator/JunjiIto, whose online gallery should fuel some sleepless nights.
* [[http://pinktentacle.com/2010/06/surrealistic-paintings-by-tetsuya-ishida/ Tetsuya Ishida, surrealist Japanese artist]]. Some of the disturbing images include someone climbing out of a lizard's guts, and sauce smeared on people's faces and hands that looks like blood. If you think surrealist paintings are scary by themselves, you'll find these worse. If you don't, you'll find some of these scary anyway.
* [[http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/artRespo.htm Art about Holocaust.]] Especially scary as it is often BasedOnATrueStory of survivors...
** In similar vein, [[http://www.jamestown.org/aboutus/getmanpaintings/getmancatalog/ Nikolai Getman's paintings]] of his time in Stalin's Gulag, in particular his horrifying "Punishment by Mosquitoes."
* [[http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/asian/Vann-Nath.html Vann Nath's]] paintings of Cambodia's infamous Tuol Sleng prison are all the more horrific because ''he witnessed them all.'' Nath was one of seven people to survive Tuol Sleng--because his talents as a painter made him useful to the Khmer Rouge, who hired him to produce propaganda for them. After the Khmer Rouge regime fell, Nath painted what he remembered.
* All of the paintings here are creepy in still-life form, but check them out ''animated.'' [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1080444/See-beautiful-animated-versions-classic-paintings.html There's something both beautiful and unnerving about it.]]
* Paul Cadmus's work was normally of the homoerotic variety, celebrating the male form in a seemingly wholesome style of painting. His [[https://moblito.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/seven-deadly-sins/ Seven Deadly Sins]] series, however, was the opposite of wholesome or celebratory, and was downright disturbing. Rounding the corner at the Metropolitan Museum or Art and seeing these paintings might just stamp the nightmare imagery into the brain for the rest of the day at the very least.
* The de Young Museum in San Francisco has exhibits that feature art, sculptures, and artifacts from all over the world. This includes the works of the Asmat people of Papua New Guinea. The [[https://polymathically.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/weekly-photo-challenge-asmat-skull/ collection of masks]] and [[https://polymathically.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/weekly-photo-challenge-papua-skull-reliquary/ reliquaries]] that adorn real skulls is simultaneously beautiful and creepy.
* Tom Lea's painting ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Tom_Lea_-_2000_Yard_Stare.jpg/800px-Tom_Lea_-_2000_Yard_Stare.jpg The 2,000 Yard Stare]]'', currently the ThousandYardStare trope image. Made to depict the events of the Battle of Peleliu, the painting pretty accurately captures the [[WarIsHell nature]] of war, and damn if it isn't creepy as hell. The [[EmptyShell empty]] stare in the soldier's eyes pretty much drains any sort of humanity from him, making him seem more like a [[UncannyValley thing]] than a person.
* A lot of the imagery in the films of Rachel Mclean, which doesn't so much ''exist'' in the UncannyValley as drill right through it and come out the other side of the Earth.
* Boris Taslitsky's ''111 Drawings in Buchenwald'' are simple line sketches on stolen paper that evoke the quiet dread of day to day life in a concentration camp. And, worse, it was ''his'' daily life, as he was sent to the camp for being a Jewish Socialist and a member of the French Resistance.
* For those who have or had a relative that were suffering from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease Alzheimer's]], the American artist [[https://www.williamutermohlen.org/ William Utermohlen]] (1933-2007) deserves a special mention for showing how horrifying (as he was diagnosed back in 1995) it can be in which [[TruthInTelevision not only negatively affected his mind but also his painting and drawing skills as well]]. Even though [[https://www.williamutermohlen.org/images/stories/pollini_images/11-utermohlen-1996-self_portrait_with_easel-yellow_and_green-46x35cm.jpg his self-portrait in the next year looks perfectly fine]], with the artist himself looking at the window while keeping a straight face, [[https://www.williamutermohlen.org/images/stories/pollini_images/12-utermohlen-1996-self-portrait-red-465x330mm-coll-poilleux.jpg as the time]] [[https://www.williamutermohlen.org/images/stories/pollini_images/13-utermohlen-1997-self-portrait-with-saw-355x355mm-coll-boicos.jpg pass]] [[https://www.williamutermohlen.org/images/stories/pollini_images/15-utermohlen-1997-self-portrait-green-355x355mm-bob.jpg and more]] [[https://www.williamutermohlen.org/images/stories/pollini_images/17-utermohlen-1998-self-portrait-with-easel-355x250mm-coll-odille.jpg self-portraits have been made]], his art style has started to look "abstract" even though Utermohlen was experiencing the said illness. In the year 2000, things have gotten down the hill [[https://www.williamutermohlen.org/images/stories/pollini_images/22-utermohlen_1999_erased_self_portrait_455x355mm.jpg where his final painting looks like]] [[UncannyValley an unfinished, blurry mess]].
** One of the [[TearJerker most depressing examples]] due to the artist's experience with the Alzheimer's disease is the infamous ''[[https://www.williamutermohlen.org/images/stories/pollini_images/21-utermohlen_2000-head_pencil.jpg Head 1]]'', where it features a drawing of a human head decaying (which is supposed to be Utermohlen himself) [[FacialHorror with a large crack on it]] while bearing [[ThousandYardStare a blank, dejected look on its face]]. To make it even more gut-wrenching, [[https://jyclasa.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/William-Utermohlen-Artista-con-alzheimer-retrata-su-propio-olvido16.png the very final drawing]] (right) shows ''a face that appears to be melting''. Here's the result: The disease has completely damaged Utermohlen's mind and the artist was unable to recognize his own face. After that, he was hospitalized before passing away in 2007.
* Michael Whelan is best known for his gorgeous sci-fi and fantasy cover art (he did a lot of work for ''Literature/TheDarkTower'' and ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern''), but he can sure bring the creepy when he wants to. His painting "Boogeyman" is currently the page image for ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight, and the [[https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/lovecrafts-nightmare-a/ artwork]] he did for a couple of Lovecraft collections rivals Beksinski's for SurrealHorror.

* Franz Xaver Messerschmidt's ''Karakterköpfe'' which shows dozens of expressive facial expressions made into sculptures.
* The sculpture ''[[http://jakeanddinoschapman.com/works/fucking-hell/ Fucking Hell]]'' by Jake and Dinos Chapman shows hundreds of tiny puppets all in a symbolic depiction of the worst crimes mankind has ever committed.
* [[http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/1333984-3x2-940x627.jpg This memorial sand sculpture]] of Music/MichaelJackson (RIP).
* Edward Kienholz's ''[[http://www.artchive.com/artchive/K/kienholz/state_hospital_int.jpg.html State Hospital]]'' depicts a naked, emaciated figure, with a fishbowl instead of a head, strapped to a filthy bunk bed with a leather belt. Above his head, surrounded by a neon speech bubble, is an identical figure -- implying that mental illness and medical mistreatment have limited the bottom figure's thoughts and identity to his grim reality. Perhaps the most nightmarish aspect of the sculpture is the fact that it was inspired by a patient at the psychiatric hospital where Kienholz worked as an orderly.
* Louise Bourgeois' ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maman_(sculpture) Maman]]'', depicting a lanky, otherwordly-looking GiantSpider carrying a sack full of its own eggs. Bourgeois has done other [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Spider_by_Louise_Bourgeois arachnid-themed pieces]] as well.

* Even without the obligatory "curse" backstory, "The Hands Resist Him" by Bill Stoneham is pretty damn creepy.
* The painting "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_Boy The Crying Boy]]" has several copies and several of them have survived house fires without any damage done to them. This led many people to think that it was "cursed".
* Anything, ''anything'', '''anything''' by Creator/HRGiger, the lovely man who brought you the look of the Xenomorphs in ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. The fact that his art is inspired by his ''literal'' nightmares does '''not''' help. [[http://www.hrgiger.com/ For those who are unfamiliar with his work]].
** Giger tells the story of how a customs official once asked if his paintings were photographs. He commented that the only place you could take a photograph that looked like one of his paintings would be in Hell...
** Even more chilling is how Timothy Leary, one of Giger's friends, described his work: ''"Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going."''
* The drawings of Paul Rumsey all show haunting BodyHorror images, made in dramatic black and white.
* Ivan Albright specializes in creepy paintings, most notably "That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)" and his version of "The Painting of Dorian Gray".
* Anything and everything by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzislaw_Beksinski Zdzisław Beksiński]]. [[https://art.vniz.net/en/beksinski/ His works]] feature copious amounts of thoroughly creepy imagery, including [[BodyHorror deformed figures]], dystopian landscapes, apocalyptic themes, sexual imagery, violence, death, and general weirdness, all drawn in a disturbing degree of detail. Interestingly, the man himself was by all accounts very cheerful and pleasant.
* The late Dr. Jack Kevorkian was a painter in his spare time. Yes, they were creepy. Quite a few were inspired by illnesses; [[http://philabooks.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/kevorkian-art-fever.jpg this one]] was inspired by paraplegia.
* The work Of Ken Currie also haunts viewers.
* [[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=on&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=pbL&resnum=0&q=oursler&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=spa-St_gB6bj8AaBv72wAQ&sa=X=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4 Tony Oursler]] projects people's faces, often intoning disturbing dialogue, onto the heads of small dummy dolls. The whole face ones are creepy enough, but he also likes to do the same for things like [[http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=on&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=pbL&resnum=0&q=oursler&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=spa-St_gB6bj8AaBv72wAQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4 this]]. It's particularly chilling seeing them in action on Website/YouTube. * shudder*

* [[https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-ab&biw=1600&bih=786&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=I8BTW96lOYTYsQW1prioDA&q=diane+arbus+circus+photos&oq=diane+arbus+circus+photos&gs_l=img.3..0i19k1.1479.2971.0.3107.9.4.0.5.5.0.197.586.0j4.4.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.8.634...0i30i19k1.0.NGPsW_WliUo The photographs]] of Creator/DianeArbus show a lot of photos of circus freaks, twins, triplets, handicapped people or unusual men and women that border to the UncannyValley. Even when she shot ''normal'' scenes inside amusement parks or the interior of a room with a Christmas tree there's still a haunting atmosphere about them.
* The photograph posted on the [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]] page. It is a still photograph, and yet people who have viewed that photograph have noted that they feel as if it is staring at them, or have noticed the eyes moving. This is due to an optical illusion of depth in the way the photograph is set up (his eyes look more deeply set/more prominent due to the lighting and makeup, and if your eyes move in the right way, his appear to move with them due to this) but to anyone unaware of the optical illusion involved, it can seem ghostly...
* Just about anything by Joel Peter-Witkin, considering his subjects often consist of actual human corpses arranged in macabre positions. There’s a reason he inspired the “Closer” music video by Nine Inch Nails.

[[folder:Asian traditional art]] [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife The Dream Of The Fisherman's Wife]]'' by Hokusai shows a woman being erotically gratified by an octopus with large piercing eyes.

* Creator/SalvadorDali: ''[[https://www.dalipaintings.com/images/paintings/soft-construction-with-boiled-beans-premonition-of-civil-war.jpg Soft Construction With Boiled Beans From Premonition Of The Civil War]]'' shows a huge giant [[BodyHorror who has no romp, just a trapezium shaped nothingness in the middle, while his hands and feet appear in odd places]].
** Even more unsettling is the sense that the giant looks this way because he's tearing himself apart.
*** Heck, MANY of his art could count. Or at least, just weird one out.
* Creator/ReneMagritte:

** [[http://www.art.com/products/p13022528-sa-i2267418/rene-magritte-le-viol-c1934.htm "The Rape"]] ("Le viol")
** ''[[https://www.renemagritte.org/images/paintings/the-threatened-assassin.jpg The Menaced Assassin]]''
* Many paintings by [[https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-ab&biw=1600&bih=786&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=hr1TW47pFqeLjwT4qIqABA&q=giorgio+de+chirico+paintings&oq=giorgio+de+chirico+paintings&gs_l=img.3..0j0i30k1j0i8i30k1.3475.5354.0.5379.10.10.0.0.0.0.228.1076.0j6j1.7.0....0...1c.1.64.img..3.7.1073....0.SnipyAL386w Giorgio di Chirico]] show desolated landscapes which have a haunting atmosphere.
* Paul Delvaux painted many images of skeletons, naked women and trains in night atmospheres. An example of his work can be found [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcA6RB5WkAE8zKq.jpg here]].
* Yves Tanguy specialized in painting twisted landscapes filled with objects and architecture that look like they have some purpose as first glance, but don't resemble anything real, making the works seem busy and lonely at the same time. [[https://www.arthipo.com/yves-tanguy-fear.html Here's one titled "Fear,"]] and here's [[https://www.wikiart.org/en/yves-tanguy a photo of the artist]] himself, wearing a look that's every bit as unhinged as his oeuvre would suggest.

* Winslow Homer’s [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_Stream_(painting) ''The Gulf Stream'']] shows a man adrift in a small boat with a broken mast surrounded by [[ThreateningShark a swarm of sharks]], with [[DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud a menacing waterspout]] on the horizon.
* Creator/PabloPicasso: All those cubist people with melting faces are some veritable BodyHorror, especially ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Picasso_The_Weeping_Woman_Tate_identifier_T05010_10.jpg The Weeping Woman]]'' and ''Art/{{Guernica}}''.
* Creator/EdvardMunch's "Art/TheScream"
* Almost all of {{Expressionism}}, absolutely [[https://www.google.com/search?q=otto+dix+art&client=firefox-b-ab&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlr_vcprHcAhVq5YMKHTI_DfwQ_AUICigB&biw=1600&bih=786 everything]] Otto Dix ever made.
* Creator/FrancisBacon's {{paintings}} of "Screaming Popes", based on Diego Velázquez's baroque portrait of Pope Innocent X, portray the figure in a series of disturbing, UncannyValley-driven and BodyHorror-laden situations; whether it is the simplicity of the screaming figure seen in ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_VI Head VI]]'' and ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_(Pope) Untitled (Pope)]]'', the chaotic and tortured scenes seen in ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_after_Velázquez Study after Velázquez]]'' and ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_after_Velázquez%27s_Portrait_of_Pope_Innocent_X Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X]]'', and, most-infamously, the dark, [[{{Squick}} disgusting]], and almost ''villainous'' depiction of a patina-faced character seen in ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_with_Meat Figure with Meat]]'', it is bound to disturb you in some way.
** The ''Figure with Meat'' painting is considered so disturbing that, in its' appearance in ''[[Film/Batman1989 Tim Burton's Batman]]'', [[ComicBook/TheJoker The Joker]], WickedCultured NightmareFetishist ''extraordinaire'', sees fit to spare it among all of the paintings defaced and destroyed by his goons in the Gotham City Museum.

* [[https://i.redditmedia.com/QwU5PbtgZ4en-SRbFvcn4Xze5Wl0GVkd2XUlgyw5kqs.jpg?s=b5e22f543e70f43cf95d01dc61c19f52 The Plague Hag on the Stairs]] by Theodor Kittelsen, the most nightmare inducing picture of UsefulNotes/TheBlackDeath incarnate, ''ever''. There are people who have problems just looking at this chilling picture. On the other hand, the "plague hag" can be NightmareRetardant to others, thanks to its derp face.
** ''Skog Troll'' (''Forest Troll'') [[http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Kittelsen#mediaviewer/File:Theodor_Kittelsen_-_Skogtroll,_1906_%28Forest_Troll%29.jpg]]
** ''Teleleli'', some sort of water monster [[http://apolitical.info/teleleli/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/TheodorKittelsen29.jpg]] and another one [[https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8144/7322013786_1ab5f55ab7_o.jpg]].
** ''The Cat Who Came To Eat Everything'' [[https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7105/7322044866_24cb535004_o.jpg]]
* Ilya Repin's [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/REPIN_Ivan_Terrible%26Ivan.jpg painting of Ivan the Terrible holding his dying son]], whom he'd [[OffingTheOffspring struck down seconds earlier]] in [[HotBlooded a random fit of rage]]. The ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone look in his eyes]]''...
* The work of Antoine Wiertz is pure nightmare fuel, presenting as many aspects of human suffering that a brush is capable of portraying. His most infamous painting, [[https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-hunger-the-madness-the-crime-pg-reproductions.html Hunger, Madness, Crime]], popularized by VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs, depicts an insane woman with a knife in her hand and [[EatsBabies an infant's foot sticking out of her kettle.]] [[{{NightmareFace}} Just the look on her face...]]

** ''[[Art/TheDisastersOfWar Los Desastres de la Guerra]]'' ([[WarIsHell The Disasters of War]]), a [[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disasters_of_War gruesome collection]] of drawings showing executions, torture, MalevolentMutilation, rape and other horrors inflicted on people during UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars in UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}.
** ''[[Art/TheCaprices Los Caprichos]]'' shows a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_caprichos lot of disturbing material]], among them a woman trying to get one of the gold teeth from the mouth of a hanged man, covering her face away from him. ''All Will Fall'' in the same series shows a group of winged males circle around a half-woman, half-harpy. Down below the fallen males are plucked by a group of women.
*** ''Art/TheSleepOfReasonProducesMonsters]]'', where Reason is fast asleep, while behind him all kinds of creepy bats, owls, and other monsters emerge out of the darkness. Most likely meant to represent the horrors that the Enlightenment ("Reason") unleashed in the form of the French Revolution and Napoleon (see [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g3edm-yfxc8/TyhGjYUdqrI/AAAAAAAACoM/LBwkyUaVaqc/s1600/el-sueno-de-la-razon-produce-monstruos.jpg here]].
** ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_disparates Los Disparates]]'' has an image named ''[[https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/39174 Bobalicon]]'', where a dancing giant, drawn from a popular carnival character, is transformed into a disturbing phantom with a SlasherSmile and ghostly faces looming up beside him.
** ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_The_Bewitched_Man_-_WGA10039.jpg The Bewitched Man]]'' where a creepy scene takes place where a man believes that he is bewitched and his life depends on keeping a lamp alight. Behind him several donkeys walk on their hind legs.
** ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Francisco_de_Goya%2C_Saturno_devorando_a_su_hijo_%281819-1823%29.jpg Saturn Devouring His Son]]'' still disturbs audiences.
* The painting ''[[http://i.imgur.com/z6zoSML.jpg The Nightmare]]'' by Henry Fuseli.
* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oedipus_and_the_Sphinx_MET_DP-14201-023.jpg Oedipus and the Sphinx]]'' and ''[[http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/106542/gustave-moreau-diomedes-devoured-by-horses-french-1866/ King Diomedes Devoured by His Horses]]'' by Gustave Moreau.
* Creator/GustaveDore:
** ''Literature/HopOMyThumb:'' The giant slashing the throats of his own daughters is pretty disturbing to [[http://i.imgur.com/pchJr1l.jpg watch.]]
* ''John Martin'''s paintings of biblical apocalypse, ''[[https://www.tate.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/grid-normal-12-cols/public/images/john_martin_the_destruction_of_sodom_0.jpg?itok=TkY0t0n- Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah]]'' and ''[[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/N/N05/N05613_10.jpg The Great Day of His Wrath]]'' show impressive evocations of God's wrath.
* Théodore Géricault made some studies of chopped up heads, arms, and legs in preparation of ''[[https://www.artsy.net/artwork/theodore-gericault-the-raft-of-the-medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]''.
** Gericault's other paintings of people with mental illnesses also deserve mention, particularly the ''[[http://i.imgur.com/NShZYxD.jpg Insane Woman.]]''
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Vereshchagin#mediaviewer/File:Apotheosis.jpg The Apotheosis of War]]'' by Vasily Vereshchagin shows a huge pile of skulls, with crows coming to feast on them.
** As Gericault did, Vereshchagin based much of his work on actual historical events. Just something to think about, if you ever come across a piece like ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression_of_the_Indian_Revolt_by_the_English Suppression of the Indian Revolt]]''.
* ''[[https://images.curiator.com/images/t_x/art/gwgmcbdihr5pcfmstduh/franz-von-stuck-lucifer-1890.jpg Lucifer]]'' by Franz von Stuck.
* ''[[https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/bear-dance The Bear Dance]]'' by William Holbrook Beard was intended to be amusing, but seeing bears walking on two feet on a secluded place in the middle of the forest is rather creepy.
* Many of the paintings of [[http://magiaposthuma.blogspot.com/2012/06/it-takes-at-least-two-centuries-to.html Antoine Wiertz]] are pretty horrific (subject matter includes people being buried alive, a woman graphically blowing her rapist's head off -- although this kind of also counts as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome -- a man graphically blowing his own head off, and numerous studies of severed heads), but the creepiest by far is ''[[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/23/42/e3/2342e3dba96e495b6296cbf5e6e8b152.jpg Faim, Folie, Crime]]'' ("Hunger, Madness, Crime," which depicts a disheveled peasant woman with a BrokenSmile clutching a bloody knife and a mysterious, bloodstained bundle, sitting by the fireplace in a nearly-empty cottage. Hanging over the fireplace is a cauldron...with a baby's foot sticking out of it.
** "[[http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Wiertz_burial.jpg The Premature Burial" by Antoine Wiertz.]]
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Colossal_octopus_by_Pierre_Denys_de_Montfort.jpg lithograph of a colossal octopus attacking a ship]].
* "[[http://allinsongallery.com/rops/devilcolor2.jpg Satan Sowing Seeds]]" from Félicien Rops' "Les Sataniques".
* "[[https://www.moma.org/collection/works/117570 Death Seizing A Woman]]" by Käthe Kollwitz.

* Hans Holbein the Younger's ''[[http://i.imgur.com/xnepsBP.jpg Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb.]]'' It's just so... Uncompromising in its portrayal of death.
* ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Judith_Beheading_Holofernes_by_Caravaggio.jpg Judith Decapitates Holofernes]]'' by ''Caravaggio.''
** [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Giuditta_decapita_Oloferne_-_Google_Art_Project-Adjust.jpg The version]] by Creator/ArtemisiaGentileschi is even more brutal.
* Titian's ''[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Titian_-_The_Flaying_of_Marsyas.jpg Flaying of Marsyas.]]'' Just, the calmly blank expression on Apollo's face, the disbelief on Marsyas's, the beginning of the cut so you know it's ''really going to happen.'' Museums really should come with warnings...
* Creator/PieterBruegelTheElder:

* Creator/RembrandtVanRijn:

* Creator/PeterPaulRubens:

* Perhaps the most horrifying ''memento mori'' painting is ''Juan de Valdes Leal'''s ''[[http://i.imgur.com/CA8gc5a.jpg Finis gloriae mundi,]]'' which graphically depicts three rotting corpses (including a bishop, and the artist's patron -- who was in fact still alive at the time the painting was done) being eaten by insects, while above their heads hangs a scale full of objects representing sin on one side and penitence on the other. The name of the painting translates to: "The End of Earthly Glory."
** His ''In Ictu Oculi'' is pretty creepy [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/In_ictu_oculi.jpg too.]]

* "[[http://i.imgur.com/jy825KD.jpg The Judgment of Cambyses]]" by ''Gerard David.''
* Zuccari's [[https://www.google.com/search?q=capital+sins+and+hell+zuccari&client=firefox-b-ab&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzxeGDzLDcAhVCHpAKHRrGDXMQsAQIJg&biw=1600&bih=786 frescoes of ''Capital Sins and Hell'']] in the duomo of the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral in UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} include, among other things, a man in the centre who is half flayed and still sits upright. At one point these paintings were covered up because they were thought to be too horrific.
* [[http://www.pictorem.com/48663/The%20Harrowing%20of%20Hell.html Almost]] [[https://fineartamerica.com/featured/christs-descent-into-hell-follower-of-hieronymus-bosch.html every]] [[http://assets.rebelcircus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/3e52bbb5a907d2c781ae6040c45ba80f-1.jpg painting]] by Creator/HieronymusBosch belongs on this page. His visions of Hell were really disturbing.
** ''[[http://i.imgur.com/xFlFnCt.jpg Christ Carrying the Cross]]:'' The GrotesqueGallery to end all grotesque galleries!

* Many Egyptian mural paintings have an eerie look to them. The people depicted are 2D drawings, sure, but there's always one eye staring at you.