Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Fabien Claude


















Not so many posts ago I was talking about just this kind of thing, i.e. vague figures in painting and more contemporary artists carrying a Bacon-esque lineage. Like Carbonne, this person also seems to be of the French tongue.
These images, however, are particularly harrowing and even remind me a little of Alvin Schwartz's terrifying drawings for the Scary Stories book series.
I love how some of the images above have almost no physiological reason for registering as a face/figure at all. And yet...




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