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.
Creative Surreal and Dark Art Pieces
Truth
You grow inside me
A new life
Darkness
Fear of Light
Brainwash
C O R E
Flying Brain
Femme Arbre
Hope

Lost Fairy
Under The Last Moon

Not the Right Way
Souls
When the darkness fades away
I will survive
Mothman
Undecided
Watching Dreams
We are in this together
Me and the silence
Hope
We are still in this together
Hollow Hills
Escapar
The edge of faith
i’ve lost my mind
Slave
Beyond Reach
Tangled angels
Desperation
The Dream

Aquil Akhter 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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Jonathan Webnip
March 20th, 2009 9:17 amSuperb ! Rlly inspiring an gritty :d
I really like “Undecided” , it’s just perfect …
edawrd
June 16th, 2010 5:55 pmis not perfect dude is disturbyng in a satasfying way
Baggy
March 20th, 2009 9:20 amDisturbing, yet thought provoking.
Daniel
March 20th, 2009 9:25 amImpresionates imagenes….
MondoNucleosis
March 20th, 2009 9:41 amAt first glance these pictures are pretty morbid but they are very fascinating and beautiful, overall.
Naomi Niles
March 20th, 2009 9:48 amI 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.
Nuno Amaral
March 20th, 2009 9:49 amimagens expectaculares
DKumar M.
March 20th, 2009 10:03 amDark Art Pieces…. Hmmmm…. Seems refreshing :)
Timothy
March 20th, 2009 10:06 amWow freakin’ creepy
Bubba
March 20th, 2009 10:13 amMeh, a couple of days looking around deviantart would easily yield stuff of this quality.
Manohar
March 20th, 2009 10:16 amoh!…………….. really amazing…
Baris Unver
March 20th, 2009 10:17 amCareful, 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.
Elliot
March 20th, 2009 10:18 amReally nice, but if you haven’t seen Alessandro Bavari you haven’t seen anything.
Jon
March 20th, 2009 10:56 amSimply Amazing.
Dominykas
March 20th, 2009 11:02 amInspired!
monopoint
March 20th, 2009 11:03 amvery inspiring :)
Kevin Wirth
March 20th, 2009 11:31 amWow these are great C O R E and Femme Arbre my favs
rpsms
March 20th, 2009 11:42 amYawn.
Illustration department drop-outs
ugga
January 10th, 2010 7:56 pmyes! finally someone that isnt freakin weird! i hear you!
Frank Jonen
March 20th, 2009 11:46 amBtw 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.
Justin Floyd
March 20th, 2009 12:08 pmI remember doing stuff like this. But, then I graduated from high school.
ugga
January 10th, 2010 7:58 pmi know right?
Arthas
March 20th, 2009 12:36 pmIt’s two cool!
blogmoneymania
March 20th, 2009 12:44 pmBeautiful & Disturbing!
Shane
March 20th, 2009 12:46 pmI love to have some of these things on my wall; others are ok, though I’m a big fan of this genre of stuff.
Glenn Jimerson
March 20th, 2009 12:53 pmStunning work! I’m always amazed at the creativity out there. Thank you for compiling these images.
Shyssirixus
March 20th, 2009 1:03 pmNot my style, but very good nonetheless.
Alex
March 20th, 2009 1:05 pmA picture of a fairy is not interesting.
Heliades
March 20th, 2009 1:28 pmEh. 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/
dizzypoker
March 20th, 2009 1:29 pmif you find true love you’ll hate these pictures.
Joe Helve
March 20th, 2009 1:49 pmSure, 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.
bob
March 20th, 2009 2:05 pmsome of those are nice, but I’ve seen far better work just browsing deviantart.
Manko10
March 20th, 2009 2:09 pmWow! Amazingly great!
albert
March 20th, 2009 2:29 pmNo it’s definitely a Miata! Have you ever even seen a Del Sol?
Greg
March 20th, 2009 2:58 pmHollow Hills is a dead rip-off of ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’.
ChrissyB
March 20th, 2009 3:08 pmIt’s amazing what some brilliant people can come up with.
jonvdveen
March 20th, 2009 3:19 pmTo 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).
Nikola
March 20th, 2009 3:24 pmWOW, i don’t know what to say any more, wooow
Great pictures!
Oliver & Roxi
March 20th, 2009 3:55 pmWow these are really ‘Tool’
:)
jon
March 20th, 2009 3:58 pmdepressimg
الاهلاوي29
March 20th, 2009 4:20 pmAmazing
manu
March 20th, 2009 4:21 pmElliot, comment 11, is absolutely right Alessandro Bavari is the real cool found of this post!!!
Felipe C.
March 20th, 2009 4:43 pmAwesome works!
My vote: “You grow inside me”
Bev
March 20th, 2009 5:33 pmSimply awesome.
forest
March 20th, 2009 6:01 pmi think the art is beautiful and touching. there should be more like these
Nora AbdulRhman
March 20th, 2009 7:00 pmhorrifying
MornigHungover
March 20th, 2009 8:02 pmsome of this artworks express exactly how i feel now. Thank you for joining in my pain :)
pradeep
March 20th, 2009 8:52 pmAwesome graphics…
İsmail ARIK
March 20th, 2009 9:04 pmlocomente
webcook
March 20th, 2009 9:05 pmreally superb :-o
AYANO
March 20th, 2009 9:08 pmLots of deviantART stuff. I like it.
Mal Feasance
March 20th, 2009 9:51 pmLovely! Check out emaleth.deviantart.com for more deviant darkness. ;-)
gaurav
March 21st, 2009 12:03 amtwisted artistic mind .. highly creative dose for weekend
Burçlar
March 21st, 2009 2:53 amits amazing thank you
Enk.
March 21st, 2009 3:16 amWTF.. What should I call them ?
Extreme Hot, Cool, Gothic Collection !! Awesome Awesome Awesome !
Smashedup really !
Anubis From Memphis
March 21st, 2009 3:54 amInteresting style of artwork!
bara
March 21st, 2009 3:58 amalways stunning
Binks
March 21st, 2009 4:04 amBoring kitsch.
not2comply
March 21st, 2009 4:28 amJust exactly what I needed right now…, inspiration out of the box.
Thanx for the post..
fhdasjk
March 21st, 2009 5:05 amNone of these are photoshopped. The pixels and shadows are perfect!
bs.kishore
March 21st, 2009 5:59 amsometimes disturbing creative juices unravel the real you by deleting the
abstemial hypocrysies….quite shocking,may be,but nevertheless excellent.
Donald Serrano
March 21st, 2009 6:07 amI think I saw that “Hope” illustration somewhere. However, everything is really a work of art!
Edwa
March 21st, 2009 6:16 amGood technics, but uninteresting works.
Stew
March 21st, 2009 6:22 amIncredible!!!
ronnie
March 21st, 2009 6:51 amsome of them are downright creepy
Will Doyle
March 21st, 2009 7:16 amExcellent! How are these images made?
kemal
March 21st, 2009 9:45 amsuper calismalar…
tales
March 21st, 2009 10:24 amDarkness titled image diffuses hate, so its not art for most of democrat people in Turkey. This losers created image expands hate and facism.
penetrarthur
March 21st, 2009 10:33 amVery nice pictures. In my opinion it doesn’t matter what is in the picture, what really is important is the quality of them.
September
March 21st, 2009 12:21 pmThese are amazing and thought provoking. I wonder if there is a way to purchase any of these?
maryam
March 21st, 2009 1:31 pmMe and the silence,Tangled angels and Desperation …these are fantastic, specially me and the silence is my favorite…thankx
Chris Coyier
March 21st, 2009 4:58 pmThis showcase is unimpressive to say the least.
kat
March 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.
Andreas
March 22nd, 2009 4:40 amWow. Some of them are pretty creepy. Yet, a very nice collection!
Alex McCabe
March 22nd, 2009 6:35 amThese 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.
hemps
March 22nd, 2009 11:38 amGreat stuff,
Nova
March 22nd, 2009 12:08 pmohhh/// Some of these are so creative, but something has no anything new… ohhh… I think so…
David
March 22nd, 2009 3:12 pmSome really nice imagery there, can’t help but think this author has some weird arm and hand fetish.
Samson
March 22nd, 2009 11:21 pmReally fantastic! Very much creative.
rednas
March 22nd, 2009 11:58 pmmore surreal:
http://white-angel.deviantart.com
spritzstuhl
March 23rd, 2009 12:26 amTo dark for me. Thanks anyway.
Nidhi
March 23rd, 2009 12:26 amgraphically disturbing but thought provoking at the same time…
definitely surreal!!!
webweberei
March 23rd, 2009 12:56 amwow! dark, superb, excellent!
Slavomir
March 23rd, 2009 3:05 amI am fascinated, great pictures!
Thank you very much!
Zavael
March 23rd, 2009 4:45 amgeat pics, really deep imagination, some of them are super, some are really great, none is bad, except my English :D
Priya
March 23rd, 2009 5:21 amExcellent…….You grow inside me is really fantastic
Andrej Cocisz Patrick
March 23rd, 2009 5:42 amFantastic pictures,trully dark goth art!
Kevin Payne
March 23rd, 2009 6:19 amBrilliant!!!!!!!!
ling cao
March 23rd, 2009 6:21 amthe images are a bit strong for me
restu
March 23rd, 2009 8:05 amwow.., i really like the last one, The Dream, it’s amazing…
t. furgeson
March 23rd, 2009 9:01 amsome 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.
RCS
March 23rd, 2009 10:36 amAre you filtering all “not so positive” comments?
Rolando
March 23rd, 2009 11:37 amOh…rerally inspiring! I wish I can do something like that!
Dan Michael
March 23rd, 2009 11:54 amSome of these photos touched a part of me that has not been touched in quite sometime. I am somewhat promiscuous too….
Dum Dum
March 23rd, 2009 12:14 pmPhotos are realy cool but some photos are not titled Correcty….Nice Work any way
Luke Brooker
March 23rd, 2009 10:19 pmdeviant art would be loving this post
Furqan
March 23rd, 2009 11:36 pmwow its really nice..
Jack
March 24th, 2009 8:09 amDisgusting pictures.
Joe
March 24th, 2009 2:33 pmWoah, need way more dark art on the web. nice
Chrissy
March 25th, 2009 9:07 amI 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!
rinkjustice
March 26th, 2009 4:24 pmNice 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.
TEGS
March 26th, 2009 6:34 pmThe majority of these are crap. I actually became so bored I had to stop looking. Lame, derivative, talentless shite.
Milana
March 27th, 2009 2:38 amIt 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 ;)