The horror pictures

The paintings of the school of expression, often emphasize symbolic expression of feelings - feelings of the characters in the painting and the painter. So many of the paintings in this school horror sensation, scary.

"Diomedes punished" by artist Gustave Moreau

In Greek mythology, the 8th Haracles to do is steal the horses of Diomedes - the King of Thrace. Do not know that this is the man-eating horses, Heracles to his friend to stay with them and cause them distress. To punish Diomedes, he did so he was devoured by his own horses. This is the theme of Moreau's painting - the artist symbolizes the French school, to sit and watch the scene Heracles avenge his horse calmly. The painting was completed in 1866 is one of those rare works of colored horrors, he also very popular with the other paintings on biblical themes and mythology.

"Nightmare" by artist Henry Fuseli
 

In writing career of Swiss artist Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), he is best known for the work nightmare, painting depicts a woman in the midst of evil dreams with demons sitting on themselves and a horse head. Famous paintings to the author to draw the other three almost identical but with different layouts. Later, when talking to the subconscious world of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, people often illustrated with paintings by Fuseli.
"Ghost on the Water" by artist Alfred Kubin
 

Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) is famous for painting using watercolor and ink materials. He also works with oil paint, but not much else. Featured in which the specter works on water-colored painting style horror, horror. And although his work had been Nazis as "degenerate art is", he is still considered important for representing schools and schools of symbolic expression in the history of world art .
"Scream" by Edvard Munch artist
 

Scream (Norwegian: Skrik) is the name of one of the four compositions, paintings form the school of expression of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch-around in 1893 and 1910. Mural depicting a character desperately anxious contrasts with the landscape merges with the sky red. Faces in the center of the painting and use of color and other details make the painting is always in the list of the best horror works ever painted.

"Saturn eating his son" of artist Peter Paul Rubens
 

According to Greek mythology, the god Saturn believes fate led him to be the son of her own beat, so he ate all the children born recently to eliminate prophecy. The tragedy of this horror are also many Western artists into painting, which is the most famous painting of Saturn eating his son famous German painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). The actions described meticulous paintings that cannibalism is considered a work of horror most.

"The ships Meduse friends" of the painter Théodore Gericault
 

Meduse raft of ships (French: Le Radeau de la Meduse) is an oil painting French painter Théodore Gericault Romantic (1791-1824) made during 1818-1819. The picture describes the events of the sinking of the French navy Meduse. The disaster has left hundreds of people adrift at sea, 13 days before they were rescued, the survivors endured hunger, thirst, they eat each other frantically. The painting attracted a lot of attention from the public at that time, and despite a few negative reviews about the product picture but still get a lot of admiration from the public.