The bizarre, surreal and grotesque illustrations by Elif Varol Ergen

Elif Varol Ergen is an artist from Turkey who uses several techniques such as acrylic, ink, silkscreening, digital imaging and mixed media. The result of her work are bizarre, surreal and grotesque images, where nightmare creatures have multiple eyes and mouths, where children are everything but innocent, and where the predominant colors are the red from blood and the fading blue from lifeless corpses.

Beginning in 2010, these disturbing images were inspired by the artist's thoughts about children violence, from and towards children, sexual, physical and psychological abuses. As an example of what started her reflections, she tells us the case of a young girl, 11 years old, who killed her mother in cold blood and went to school after that.

The monstrous and grotesque creatures from Ergen's art are distorted reflexes of what these kids have been through. And those kids almost always grow up. And is not rare they become agents of creating more of their own monsters.

The style of Elif Varol Ergen's art remembers me the grotesque style of some japanese artists, such as Suehiro Maruo, who creates his distorted beings as they were legendary monsters and demons (youkais). However, japanese artists seems to generally focus over the erotism in the grotesque, but Ergen seems to concentrate her focus in symbolic and psychological implications.

Appreciate the bizarre, surreal and grotesque illustrations by Elif Varol Ergen:

Images from Elif Varol Ergen's website. Indicated by Empty Kingdom - Elif Varol Ergen.

The dark, surreal, bizarre and perverted illustrations by Dale Keogh

Dale Keogh is an australian artist who makes dark, surreal and bizarre illustrations. Using black backgrounds and dark colors, Keogh portrays women in extreme situations.

Influenced by hentais (japanese pornographic animations), the artist shows us women struggling with tentacles, crustacean claws, spiders and other creatures. Keogh's illustrations mix terror, sadism and surrealism.

Appreciate the dark, surreal, bizarre and perverted illustrations by Dale Keogh:

Urchin



Julia and the crab



Hair and guts



Tentacle blind



Blind crawler



Cocoons



Crawler



Julia and crow eyes



Drooling



Spider's web



Parasites



Open your mouth



Slugs



Spider bite



Sucker



The head



The opening



The temple



Tentacles and claws



Tentacles from the mouth



Venomous



Tentacle blindness

Images from site de Dale Keogh. Indicated by Empty Kingdom - Dale Keogh.

The oniric and surreal photography by Dennis Ziliotto - part 2

I already posted some works of Dennis Ziliotto before, when I featured some of his sensual, surreal and grim oniric photography. In this post, I bring more of his works, with surreal and bizarre photographies: a hippo ballerina dancing in her tutu, flowers growing from mustaches of a beautiful blonde, Alice serving the head of the rabbit of Wonderland and other things typical from the craziest dreams.

Appreciate the oniric and surreal photography by Dennis Ziliotto - part 2:

Images from Dennis Ziliotto at Behance.