EDGY ART

"Diego and Me" Frida Kahlo, 1949. After her marriage to the painter Diego Rivera, Kahlo experimented with a variety of influences, from Aztec mythology to medicine. At the height of her technical prowess, she utilizes the tradition of the pectoral self-portrait in Diego and Me, entering into a dialogue with Renaissance masters such as Albrecht Dürer. 𝓔𝓭𝓰𝓲 𝓐𝓻𝓽

"The Ghost of a Wife" Roux Georges, 1885 𝓔𝓭𝓰𝓲 𝓐𝓻𝓽

"Future Husband Hunt" Valentin Gubarev 𝓔𝓭𝓰𝓲 𝓐𝓻𝓽

"The Point of the Case" René Magritte, 1928. The painting 'The Essence of the Case' proved to be deeply personal for René Magritte. His mother Regina suffered from depression and had made several suicide attempts. Her husband Leopold, fearing for her life, locked her in her bedroom. However, she managed to escape and her body was found in the Sambre River. 𝓔𝓭𝓰𝓲 𝓐𝓻𝓽

"Ballerina in Death's Head" Salvador Dalí, 1939. "Ballerina in Death's Head" ("Ballerina in the Skull") is one of the most famous examples of the "paranoid-critical method" that the artist developed in the early 1930s. The aspect of paranoia that interested Dalí was the brain's ability to connect things that are rationally unrelated. 𝓔𝓭𝓰𝓲 𝓐𝓻𝓽

"Red Model" René Magritte, 1935. 𝓔𝓭𝓰𝓲 𝓐𝓻𝓽

"Death of Casagemas" Pablo Picasso, 1901. The young Catalan artist Carlos Casagemas was Pablo Picasso's closest friend. It was he who became Picasso's companion on his first trip to Paris. But if for Picasso this trip was the first tiny step towards future fame, for Casagemas it was the beginning of the end. In Paris, Carlos fell passionately in love with a young model named Germaine. These feelings were not reciprocated, Casagemas fell into a deep depression and began to talk frequently about suicide. 𝓔𝓭𝓰𝓲 𝓐𝓻𝓽

"Weeping Woman" Pablo Picasso, 1937 𝓔𝓭𝓰𝓲 𝓐𝓻𝓽

"Love ponders death" Gustave Doré 𝓔𝓭𝓰𝓲 𝓐𝓻𝓽

"Relativity" Mauritz Escher, 1953. To the untrained viewer, this work may cause perplexity: at first glance at the picture, staircases that look quite ordinary catch the eye. However, if you look closely and see where they lead, it becomes clear that Maurits Escher gave the title Relativity to this work for a reason. His lithograph is a visual confirmation of the relativity of human perception and the laws of geometry and physics. 𝓔𝓭𝓰𝓲 𝓐𝓻𝓽