• Morbid Art

    G.P. Pannini, Roman ruins and sculpture 1758

    “Art is the purest thing on earth, after Holiness.”

    J.K. Huysmans

    A selection of unknown or less known artists, linked together by the same aesthetic perspective. Visit my cargo for engravers and black&white illustrators and draughtsmen.

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    Masters:

    Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) american artist, sculptor and pioneer exponent of assemblage.

    Salvador Dalì and his erotic imaginery (1904-1989) spanish artist.

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    Illustrators:

    Ulisse Aldrovandi Monstrorum historia (1522-1605) italian naturalist.

    Roland Topor (1938-1997) french illustrator, writer and film maker.

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    Decorators:

    Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988) italian illustrator and interior decorator, fanciful and eclectic artificer of unreal worlds.

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    Photographers and tableaux vivants:

    Steven Arnold (1943–1994), american artist, known for his bizarre tableaux vivants.

    Eva Ionesco, photographed at the age of 4 by her mother Irina Ionesco, Romanian-French photographer (born 1935).

    Pierre et Gilles, french duo artists, photographers and painters (born 1950 and 1953).

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    Directors:

    Jan Švankmajer (born 1934), Czech filmmaker known for his blending of the perverse, the macabre, and the child-like.

    Kenneth Anger (born 1927) american controversial and independent filmmaker and practitioner of occult magic.

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    Contemporary artists:

    Aleksandra Mir, (born 1967) swedish artist who found the Faith in a sacred art shop in Palermo.

    Ryan McGinley, series “Life adjustment center”, american photographer (born 1977).

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