Immortal Madness Vampire Ecstasy Nocturnal Romance

Lost in a world of beauty, madness and darkness Immortal madness... Vampire ecstasy... Nocturnal Romance...

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Art by  yam8417

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Oxford, Oxfordshire by Alixe Lay

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Frank Eugene: Slumbering Maidens, 1900s

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Lestat De Lioncourt

 by Imaginary2095  ©2017-2018 Imaginary2095

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Theatre of Shakespeare (Detail), 1886 - Gustav Klimt The Death of Romeo and Juliet. Performance at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London.

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Death of Ophelia - Jean-Baptiste Bertrand 1872

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Caitlin Karolczak ~ “Art Confronts Exploitation”

“My artwork explores a number of themes that are connected to the fragility of the human mind & body. My paintings also wrestle with this intersection of beauty and distress. In turn attempting to confront the viewer with a sensation of both the unconventional and human commonality. By depicting this sort of subject matter, I am trying to confront attitudes of a sometimes flawed society. Like artists Joel-Peter Witkin and Andres Serrano, I am sometimes accused of exploitation; but I believe their exploration through art is sometimes misunderstood by viewers who refuse or are unable to take a look at themselves. Which is what a lot of good art strives to do – to make the viewer reassess themselves in a critical light, or for them to feel akin to an image or person that initially prompts feelings of disgust or discomfort.” 

~ Caitlin Karolczak

[pre-raphaelisme]

Beauty and the Beast by Joseph Edward Southall, 1904

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Gustav Klimt

Allegory of Philosophy, 1899-1907 (Destroyed by fire) 

Allegory of Sculpture, 1889

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Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft by IrenHorrors