Hungarian artist István Orosz has created some new illustrations for “Ship Of Fools“, a medieval book of satire originally published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by Sebastian Brant and as you are about to see, all of the illustrations cleverly ‘conceal’ human skulls…
View the full set on István Orosz’ site HERE.
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I’d like to tell you all a little bit about the magnificent paintings of cinematic classics you’re about to see but unfortunately, I know almost nothing.
Here’s what I do know: The artist seems to be called Massimo Carnevale and…that’s it!
The Great Dictator (1940):
Some Like It Hot (1959):
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967):
Serpico (1973):
JAWS (1975):
Taxi Driver (1976):
Saturday Night Fever (1977):
Alien !1979):
The Blues Brothers (1980):
The Elephant Man (1980):
The Shining (1980):
Back To the Future (1985):
Brazil (1985):
Full Metal Jacket (1987):
Point Break (1991):
The Silence Of The Lambs (1991):
True Romance (1993):
The Crow (1994):
The Green Mile (1999):
Death Proof (2007):
Bronson (2007):
Gran Torino (2008):
Machete (2010):
Django unchained (2012):
There are a HELLUVA lot more of these wonderful paintings and they can be viewed HERE.
The original artist seems to have a blog HERE.
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Along with all of the other recent blows to the Catholic Church’s credibility, my own personal one will be out around Easter 2013 via my comic-strip. Al Cook’s “Necropolis”.
Here are some new preview images.
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Reddit is a wonderful place. I only recently discovered Reddit and even more recently than that I realised that you can search out specific words and phrases on it. I typed the word ‘macabre’ into Reddit’s search box and discovered the bizarre and frightening childrens’ book artwork of post WWII Tokyo based artist, Gōjin Ishihara!
From The Illustrated Book Of Japanese Monsters (1972):
The next two illustrations are from The Illustrated Book Of Hell (1975):
From The Complete Book Of Demons (1974):
Gorgon. The Illustrated Book Of World Monsters (1973):
Aliens In Ancient Japan. From the book, Mysteries Of The World (1970):
From Sonosheet Book (1972):
Prehistoric Man (1970):
Spy Wars…
The World’s biggest glutton from The World’s Greatest Wonders (1971):
Precognition of plane crash. Mysteries Of The Body (1973):
Nostradamus. Psychics Of The World (1974):
Frozen planet. Year X: End Of The World (1975):
Dark star gravity. Year X: End Of The World (1975):
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