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MadSilence did a great post on scary art in honor of Halloween.
This particular painting is was painted in 1892 by Allen C Gilbert at the age of 18, which is surprising to me given the skill of the work and the depth of the statement.
The ultimate “Horror” artist is clearly Edvard Munch
Even without trying (in this case he obviously was) his pictures are horrific and heartfelt.
The Scream is such a famous painting and the emotions in it so strong if you do a google search for it the amount of Scream inspired pieces - serious and in jest is huge.
Here are a few examples:
creative commons license darkumber
creative common license A.J.Kandy
OK, her expression isn’t quite right, not enough suffering but the background is pretty close, surprisingly enough.
Hi Heather. Munch’s Scream is a powerful iconic image that resounds across the art world. Somehow he seems to have captured the spirit of the times.
I do like the two contemporary knock-offs.
~MadSilence
I especially like how people are influenced by art enough to comment on it.
It sucks!!!
Hi Heather- In 1892 Alan C Gilbert had more artistic skill than an 18-year-old might today because Alan C Gilbert did not have comic books, or radio, or recorded music in general, or television, or video games, or the internet, or a cell phone, etc., to distract him from doing what he obviously loved to do, which would be drawing and/or painting. You will find, if you go to the library and take out a few biographies that also include reproductions of the early works of a variety of famous artists, that this was quite a common thing. One of the most frequent mistakes contemporary commentators make when judging artworks from bygone eras, from antiquity to the recent past, is doing so by using the comparitively low standards of the present. I regret to point out that you seem to have made this error. Meanwhile, I hate to quibble, but the line of type across the bottom which reads "All is vanity" seems to suggest that this is a lithographic reproduction made for mass consumption rather than a painting as you suggest.
Matt - I didn’t suggest anything about what it was, just how, for an 18 year old it was deep. (I am talking about on an emotional level, not just technical skill). I do think that you are right about the freedom they had to create, with no other distractions. I am a bit jealous of that.