Blog – Page 13 – Dark Art and Craft

Dark Artist Spotlight: Daniël van Nes

Posted by New Ethic Design on September 17, 2020

Dutch multidisciplinary artist Daniël van Nes creates with video, installation art, and engraving among other mediums. His works involve industrial settings and complex engravings often times illuminated to achieve a unique 'machine noir' style. van Nes reflects on social and technological developments and how reality and identity play within these. His Selifable City project takes form in many materials and features dark lonely creatures in a world of their own. Illuminated engraving installation "DOMINO DOMINION" via http://kallenbachgallery.com/ “Sellfable City is a ‘Machine Noir’ world, that thrives on the energy of its inhabitants. Like an ink stain, it slowly creeps into our world. Eating our...

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Images of Mystery and Imagination: the Illustrated Work of Harry Clarke

Posted by Stephanie Crumley on September 10, 2020

The short life of Irish Artist Harry Clarke is a prolific combination of more than 100 stained glass installations and his book illustrations. He's also one of the masters that has paved the way for the dark art movement we know today. His work, in both mediums, was heavily inspired by the French Symbolism and Art Nouveau movements.

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Paul Fryer Dark Morning Star

Posted by J Meyers on August 29, 2020

Paul Fryer's striking Art pieces engage an array of occult and religious symbology with modern scientific revelations.The Artist's most successful works focus on morality, discord, science and religion and just how we interact with these rather vast conflicted topics.

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The Symbolic Nature of Agostino Arrivabene

Posted by J Meyers on June 19, 2020

Agostino Arrivabene is a masterful and visionary painter from the Italian countryside. He paints using ground pigments and many other traditional working methods that yield themselves to a timelines nature. This is a world of symbols, ancient landscapes and psychological probing that is truly Arrivabene's own.

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Gloopy, Mutated and Grotesque: The Work of Caroline Harrison & This Week's Featured Contemporary Artist

Posted by Stephanie Crumley on May 15, 2020

If you are a fan of dark art and heavy music, there's a very good chance that you've stumbled across the work of New York artist Caroline Harrison. She has worked some of our own favorites in the music community like SunnO))), Pig Destroyer and Inter Arma.

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