Not always famous paintings were beautiful and decorative, just as not always in ordinary life there is only beauty without ugliness. Scary paintings allow you to think and empathize, cause much stronger feelings and are imprinted in the memory longer than any standard portrait of salon academicians, where everything is smooth and beautiful, but at the same time and empty on the soul. It is no coincidence that all these paintings have been recognized as outstanding artworks and leave few people indifferent.
Quentin Massis. The Ugly Duchess
Painting Flemish artist Quentin Masseyss "Ugly Duchess" is in fact the first caricature of the irrepressible desire of some ladies of balsakovskogo age to look younger and more attractive than their years. Massais brought this desire to the absurd - deliberately distorted facial features to the extreme, wrote in the hand of the Duchess plucked young rose, symbolizing youth and beauty. And the clothes of the Duchess is a strange combination of a fashionable dress, clearly not for her age - to dress much more modestly and outdated bonnet, which was worn only by old women. In general, this is not a portrait, but an unconcealed mockery, although it is possible that even such an ugly duchess may well find a handsome young man to marry, or even to be her lover - after all, money and noble origin can work wonders when it comes to relationships between people.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Cripples
The painting "Cripples" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is dedicated to the outrage of the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands, when in the name of God Spanish fanatics did terrible things, in particular, maimed and killed all Protestants, whose entire guilt was that they adhered to another direction in Christianity.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Triumph of Death
But at the same time the picture is diverse - there are elements of grotesque, kind and sympathetic mockery of the cripples themselves - for the XVI century it was something innovative, like Gogol's "Overcoat" in literature, bright colors and a universal message that no beliefs do not justify cruelty and torture.
Otto Dix. The Lady in Red
Otto Dix was a German expressionist and staunch anti-fascist who became famous for his truly frightening paintings, such as the triptych War, which is dedicated to Dix's personal memories and experiences during the First World War. There he saw and experienced enough to remain a convinced pacifist forever.
Otto Dix. Chaos in the street
He surprisingly accurately managed to combine humor and tragedy, he could make jokes about things that jokes in general was not accepted, and in one painting to tell the whole story, to convey the character and tragicomedy of the whole life of his characters, as he managed to do in the painting "Sailor".
Otto Dix. A sailor
A monstrous storm has begun, the ship is about to sink, but in the last minutes of his life the sailor thinks about carnal desires and women who are waiting for him in every port. Indeed, the humped man's grave can be mended.
Otto Dix. Self-portrait with a model.
Dix explained his approach to artwork simply: "I try to depict in the picture what boils up inside me". His paintings are very acutely social, Dix did not hesitate to reflect all the negative phenomena in life, but did it with unchanging humor, well aware that from terrible to funny is often only one step.
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