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Bizarre Surreal and Dark Art Pictures
Art is a thing that attracts almost every individual. Today we would like to share with you two different but very interesting mediums of art which are called as Surreal and Dark Art. These types of art are quite different from other conventional mediums of art. In these medium, artist conveys his thought and imagination in a very mysterious but somewhat fantastic or I should say in a bizarre style.
I personally like these types of arts as they express the most beautiful and positive aspects of life. Artist has much room in these types of art to motivate your life, to inspire you and to bring happiness and positivity in your life. So, here’s the collection of most momentous and conceptually imaginative surreal and dark art works.
Do have a look at these photos and do not forget to share your comments with us.
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Creative Surreal and Dark Art Pieces
Aquil Akhter is a web graphic designer and has been working in this field for 8 years. He also runs the blog webdesigncore.com, which focuses on free web resources and inspiration for designers and developers.
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March 20th, 2009 9:20 amDisturbing, yet thought provoking.
- 3March 20th, 2009 9:25 am
Impresionates imagenes….
- 4March 20th, 2009 9:41 am
At first glance these pictures are pretty morbid but they are very fascinating and beautiful, overall.
- 5March 20th, 2009 9:48 am
I love my husband’s illustration Lady ZakharovaLady Zakharova illustration. It’s about a woman who uses her husband’s corpse as a dummy for communication with the spirit world.
- 6March 20th, 2009 9:49 am
imagens expectaculares
- 7March 20th, 2009 10:03 am
Dark Art Pieces…. Hmmmm…. Seems refreshing :)
- 8March 20th, 2009 10:06 am
Wow freakin’ creepy
- 9March 20th, 2009 10:13 am
Meh, a couple of days looking around deviantart would easily yield stuff of this quality.
- 10March 20th, 2009 10:16 am
oh!…………….. really amazing…
- 11March 20th, 2009 10:17 am
Careful, the Turkish government might get you… :)
The picture named Darkness is protesting the extreme Islamist attitude of Justice and Development Party, the party which is cruelly ruling our country. The turban is a symbol of Moderate Islam and the light bulb is, well, the logo of JDP. And of course, the dark color shceme is the symbolism for the darkness JDP has brought to our country.
- 12March 20th, 2009 10:18 am
Really nice, but if you haven’t seen Alessandro Bavari you haven’t seen anything.
- 13March 20th, 2009 10:29 am
amazing pics! really amazing!
- 14March 20th, 2009 10:56 am
Simply Amazing.
- 15March 20th, 2009 11:02 am
Inspired!
- 16March 20th, 2009 11:03 am
very inspiring :)
- 17March 20th, 2009 11:31 am
Wow these are great C O R E and Femme Arbre my favs
- 18March 20th, 2009 11:42 am
Yawn.
Illustration department drop-outs
- 19January 10th, 2010 7:56 pm
yes! finally someone that isnt freakin weird! i hear you!
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- 20March 20th, 2009 11:46 am
Btw putting the caption at the same space between the image before and after is very confusing. You scroll a bit and it becomes impossible to tell whether I’m reading a title or a caption. I’m never certain to which image it belongs.
- 21March 20th, 2009 12:08 pm
I remember doing stuff like this. But, then I graduated from high school.
- 22January 10th, 2010 7:58 pm
i know right?
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- 23March 20th, 2009 12:36 pm
It’s two cool!
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- 26March 20th, 2009 12:44 pm
Beautiful & Disturbing!
- 27March 20th, 2009 12:46 pm
I love to have some of these things on my wall; others are ok, though I’m a big fan of this genre of stuff.
- 28March 20th, 2009 12:53 pm
Stunning work! I’m always amazed at the creativity out there. Thank you for compiling these images.
- 29March 20th, 2009 1:03 pm
Not my style, but very good nonetheless.
- 30March 20th, 2009 1:05 pm
A picture of a fairy is not interesting.
- 31March 20th, 2009 1:28 pm
Eh. All but 3 of those had some sort of human figure in them. I think people could be a bit more creative then make a photo manipulation of hands, eyes, and bodies all the time. Some of the best art I’ve seen is from this guy. http://leminnes.deviantart.com/
- 32March 20th, 2009 1:29 pm
if you find true love you’ll hate these pictures.
- 33March 20th, 2009 1:49 pm
Sure, most see this as art because it has a person in every pic. Why people need this in art? This is maybe eye candy for high-school students. Joel Peter Witkin did this at a fundamentally more thought-provoking way.
- 34March 20th, 2009 2:05 pm
some of those are nice, but I’ve seen far better work just browsing deviantart.
- 35March 20th, 2009 2:09 pm
Wow! Amazingly great!
- 36March 20th, 2009 2:29 pm
No it’s definitely a Miata! Have you ever even seen a Del Sol?
- 37March 20th, 2009 2:58 pm
Hollow Hills is a dead rip-off of ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’.
- 38March 20th, 2009 3:08 pm
It’s amazing what some brilliant people can come up with.
- 39March 20th, 2009 3:19 pm
To be honest, I find the photoshop not as impressive as some of the other features you’ve had in the past. There’s a lot of potential for this drama, but this doesn’t seem like a very inspiring collection.
Had I not known, I probably would have dated many of these photos at 5 or 6 years old (in terms of photshop technique).
- 40March 20th, 2009 3:24 pm
WOW, i don’t know what to say any more, wooow
Great pictures! - 41March 20th, 2009 3:55 pm
Wow these are really ‘Tool’
:) - 42March 20th, 2009 3:58 pm
depressimg
- 43March 20th, 2009 4:20 pm
Amazing
- 44March 20th, 2009 4:21 pm
Elliot, comment 11, is absolutely right Alessandro Bavari is the real cool found of this post!!!
- 45March 20th, 2009 4:43 pm
Awesome works!
My vote: “You grow inside me” - 46March 20th, 2009 5:33 pm
Simply awesome.
- 47March 20th, 2009 6:01 pm
i think the art is beautiful and touching. there should be more like these
- 48March 20th, 2009 7:00 pm
horrifying
- 49March 20th, 2009 8:02 pm
some of this artworks express exactly how i feel now. Thank you for joining in my pain :)
- 50March 20th, 2009 8:52 pm
Awesome graphics…
- 51March 20th, 2009 9:04 pm
locomente
- 52March 20th, 2009 9:05 pm
really superb :-o
- 53March 20th, 2009 9:08 pm
Lots of deviantART stuff. I like it.
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- 55March 21st, 2009 12:03 am
twisted artistic mind .. highly creative dose for weekend
- 56March 21st, 2009 2:53 am
its amazing thank you
- 57March 21st, 2009 3:16 am
WTF.. What should I call them ?
Extreme Hot, Cool, Gothic Collection !! Awesome Awesome Awesome !Smashedup really !
- 58March 21st, 2009 3:54 am
Interesting style of artwork!
- 59March 21st, 2009 3:58 am
always stunning
- 60March 21st, 2009 4:04 am
Boring kitsch.
- 61March 21st, 2009 4:28 am
Just exactly what I needed right now…, inspiration out of the box.
Thanx for the post..
- 62March 21st, 2009 5:05 am
None of these are photoshopped. The pixels and shadows are perfect!
- 63March 21st, 2009 5:59 am
sometimes disturbing creative juices unravel the real you by deleting the
abstemial hypocrysies….quite shocking,may be,but nevertheless excellent. - 64March 21st, 2009 6:07 am
I think I saw that “Hope” illustration somewhere. However, everything is really a work of art!
- 65March 21st, 2009 6:16 am
Good technics, but uninteresting works.
- 66March 21st, 2009 6:22 am
Incredible!!!
- 67March 21st, 2009 6:51 am
some of them are downright creepy
- 68March 21st, 2009 7:16 am
Excellent! How are these images made?
- 69March 21st, 2009 9:45 am
super calismalar…
- 70March 21st, 2009 10:24 am
Darkness titled image diffuses hate, so its not art for most of democrat people in Turkey. This losers created image expands hate and facism.
- 71March 21st, 2009 10:33 am
Very nice pictures. In my opinion it doesn’t matter what is in the picture, what really is important is the quality of them.
- 72March 21st, 2009 12:21 pm
These are amazing and thought provoking. I wonder if there is a way to purchase any of these?
- 73March 21st, 2009 1:31 pm
Me and the silence,Tangled angels and Desperation …these are fantastic, specially me and the silence is my favorite…thankx
- 74March 21st, 2009 4:58 pm
This showcase is unimpressive to say the least.
- 75March 21st, 2009 6:48 pm
“Hollow Hills is a dead rip-off of ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’.”
if you even bother to look on the deviantart page you will see that it is a tribute to Tim Burton’s work. - 76March 22nd, 2009 4:40 am
Wow. Some of them are pretty creepy. Yet, a very nice collection!
- 77March 22nd, 2009 6:35 am
These are proper awesome. Some are very creepy too. I wish I had those skills =[
Completely off topic, but i feel that when you hover over a story link on the homepage the text should underline. I always have to look twice to see if I have actually hovered.
- 78March 22nd, 2009 11:38 am
Great stuff,
- 79March 22nd, 2009 12:08 pm
ohhh/// Some of these are so creative, but something has no anything new… ohhh… I think so…
- 80March 22nd, 2009 3:12 pm
Some really nice imagery there, can’t help but think this author has some weird arm and hand fetish.
- 81March 22nd, 2009 11:21 pm
Really fantastic! Very much creative.
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- 83March 23rd, 2009 12:26 am
To dark for me. Thanks anyway.
- 84March 23rd, 2009 12:26 am
graphically disturbing but thought provoking at the same time…
definitely surreal!!! - 85March 23rd, 2009 12:39 am
A creativity injection!
- 86March 23rd, 2009 12:56 am
wow! dark, superb, excellent!
- 87March 23rd, 2009 3:05 am
I am fascinated, great pictures!
Thank you very much! - 88March 23rd, 2009 4:45 am
geat pics, really deep imagination, some of them are super, some are really great, none is bad, except my English :D
- 89March 23rd, 2009 5:21 am
Excellent…….You grow inside me is really fantastic
- 90March 23rd, 2009 5:42 am
Fantastic pictures,trully dark goth art!
- 91March 23rd, 2009 6:19 am
Brilliant!!!!!!!!
- 92March 23rd, 2009 6:21 am
the images are a bit strong for me
- 93March 23rd, 2009 8:05 am
wow.., i really like the last one, The Dream, it’s amazing…
- 94March 23rd, 2009 9:01 am
some of these are interesting and well done, others fall into the cliche department, the hands with the butterfly, the fairy, the tim burton knock off and even the lightbulb heads get to that point.
I agree with what’s been said, some have nice technicals, but lack the truly creative concepts.
Oh, and whoever said that these are not photoshopped, open your eyes.
- 95March 23rd, 2009 10:36 am
Are you filtering all “not so positive” comments?
- 96March 23rd, 2009 11:37 am
Oh…rerally inspiring! I wish I can do something like that!
- 97March 23rd, 2009 11:54 am
Some of these photos touched a part of me that has not been touched in quite sometime. I am somewhat promiscuous too….
- 98March 23rd, 2009 12:14 pm
Photos are realy cool but some photos are not titled Correcty….Nice Work any way
- 99March 23rd, 2009 10:19 pm
deviant art would be loving this post
- 100March 23rd, 2009 11:36 pm
wow its really nice..
- 101March 24th, 2009 8:09 am
Disgusting pictures.
- 102March 24th, 2009 2:33 pm
Woah, need way more dark art on the web. nice
- 103March 25th, 2009 1:49 am
очень скучно ничего нового
- 104March 25th, 2009 9:07 am
I absolutely loved the pictures found here. They were amazingly beautiful, and stunning as well! There were some that seemed a bit cliche, but most were out of this world! I loved it! Thankyou for sharing!
- 105March 26th, 2009 4:24 pm
Nice post Aquil.
My brother Corey (his handle is Coco) is a painter living in Downtown Toronto and does this kind of bizarre, surreal and dark art. His latest painting creeps me out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rinkjustice/3357069723/?ref=mf
More of his art is at http://coreychristophercomely.com
As far as I know, these pieces are still available for sale.
- 106March 26th, 2009 6:34 pm
The majority of these are crap. I actually became so bored I had to stop looking. Lame, derivative, talentless shite.
- 107March 27th, 2009 2:38 am
It is really impressive…I’ve seen some concepts here that I haven’t seen before and I know my way around dark art. Still would like to see more of this but with a little more variety to it. If you need any assistance with it let me know ;)
- 108March 27th, 2009 11:32 am
This kind of art is Incredible!
The Feeling, Mood and the Adrenaline…
- 109March 28th, 2009 7:53 am
You can find more dark art / bizarre images or wallpapers at Dark Wallpapers (http://darkwallpapers.net) website.
- 110March 30th, 2009 5:11 pm
Wow, absolutly beautiful. I LOVE everything, the vision is great and the feel is wonderful. All the pictures are great and are cleverly executed. It gives you (or at least me) that dream and history image, and I loved it. It just seems so aged and…classy? I dont think that’s the right word, but its familiar, old, and elegant. Again, its PURE beauty.**************
- 111March 31st, 2009 3:34 am
I love some of these! I think that Catching dreams is my favourate! Keep up all the good work guys, very inspiring…
Andrew Wright [www.wright-media.co.uk]
- 112March 31st, 2009 2:17 pm
tetricas en todo su sentido
- 113April 6th, 2009 10:20 am
This is not worth it … what the hell ist dark art, what do they want to convey with this, besides teen-like death imaginery????
- 114April 6th, 2009 2:44 pm
“beautiful”
- 115April 7th, 2009 2:44 pm
Excelentes, estoy realmente impresionado, son muy muy buenas las imagenes.
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- 117April 23rd, 2009 7:43 am
Artists do tend to experiment, one who I know had a phase where she drew hands with nails through them, even a few feet with nails through them. These were just sketches, she has a lot of dark art, mostly pencil sketches that she’s shown me. I find that her work is a little more expressive than some of this stuff, I can feel the emotion in it.
- 118May 25th, 2009 3:38 pm
wow…surreal art is beautiful…I can tell the emotions in these pictures and what the artist is trying to say..thats really amazing
- 119June 9th, 2009 10:04 am
For some reason, your works remind me of Gustav Dore’s “Forest of Suicides” woodcut from Dante’s Inferno.They convey the same feeling of darkness and helpless despair, done in a stylized magic realism that is very effective. You are extremely good at what you do.
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- 122July 31st, 2009 2:06 pm
Mindblowing….
- 123August 19th, 2009 9:07 am
It`s all about our life,it`s realistic and we all need a good brainwash.
- 124September 1st, 2009 7:45 am
Very cool.
- 125September 18th, 2009 10:16 am
These are really spectacular photos even if they are photo-shopped. They would look really spectacular as canvas enlargements.
- 126September 20th, 2009 3:18 pm
“Darkness” başlıklı çalışma eser sahibinin burnunun ucunu görememekliğini ve mikro milliyetçiliğini dışavurması açısından çok değerli bir çalışma olmuş.
- 127September 20th, 2009 3:23 pm
“Baris Unver” do you believe that you wrote :D
- 128October 4th, 2009 4:29 am
Interesting. I think this type of thing is more for the college crowd. Introspective confrontations with someone’s own discovery and self awareness. A bit of insecurity mixed with intellect. It’s the type of art that is the literary equivalent of the one liner. It slaps you in the face but doesn’t really have any lasting impact because the pieces almost always lack depth. It’s like the artist is in a hurry to get the thought down before they lose it. Most share the need to communicate the idea within a broader context that would give it a more lasting impression. I like souls and i will survive but again these concepts lack the layering effect that would make the pieces stronger. The subject matter is centered and in your face. Where’s the sublety in that? Leave some room for discovery for the viewer and engage them, give the viewer the intellectual benefit of the doubt and allow them to ‘peel the onion’.
- 129October 4th, 2009 6:33 am
i relly like plz send me new wallpaper
- 130October 8th, 2009 5:50 pm
omg! those r so freaky! hey if any1 wants 2 hav some horny sex with me email me!
- 131October 15th, 2009 2:16 pm
I fucking love it. its amazing. I am a surrealist, and I thouroughly enjoy looking and discovering new artists. Simply amazing. My Favourite is Brainwash. Excellent! Superb! (: Very Impressed!
- 132November 16th, 2009 9:52 am
these pics are cool. some of them look real gothic.
- 133January 5th, 2010 3:36 pm
Hi all,
Check out this website for latest Dark and Gothic wallpapers…gothicwallz.blogspot.com
thanks…
- 134January 10th, 2010 10:24 pm
wow ! what a imagination its really superb.
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