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Shintaro Kago

Shintaro Kago is one of the few Japanese fucked up artists who gained a large amount of following in the western world. Born in Tokyo in 1969, he’s a contemporary mangaka and pioneer of the guro (gore) genre who reached somewhat of a cult following globally despite never receiving formal education in the arts. What made him so popular is his unique style which distorts realities, deforms the human body, turns the ordinary into surreal and vice versa. Observing his work is a bit like looking at children’s drawings, filled with exaggerations, mixing of themes and genres, imaginative experimentations with a dark twist that always culminate in the bizarre or the grotesque, but almost in a humorous way. Compared to other fucked up Japanese artists like Junji Ito and Suehiro Maruo , Shintaro Kago is less focused on conveying horror and more on delivering a feeling of estrangement through the sheer absurdity of his subjects. His art style is commonly defined as “ fashionable paranoia...
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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (Dublin 1909 - Madrid 1992) is one of the most famous painters from the 20th century. His works, ruthless and tormented, violently express the existential condition of human beings in the post-war age. A man with a complex, somewhat disturbed personality, with an artistic interest for illnesses and mutilation - images of deformed or mutilated children were found in his studio; Francis Bacon is the pioneer of a more existential interpretation of surrealism, with the ambition to artistically investigate the true essence of contemporary man, torn apart by the Second World War but above all besieged after the war. The artist's inner world and personal emotional turbulence evolved into a magnificent obsession for the human essence, which led him to push the subjects of his painting to the extreme. Bacon's characters are at times minimalistic, at times deformed, disfigured. In one of his earliest works, Crucifixion (1933), the body of Christ is reduced to an essentia...
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Vania Zouriavliov

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Russia is definitely the most prolific country of Fucked Up Artists after Japan. And if  Uno Moralez ’s random pixel art can be considered the equivalent of Japanese  ero guro nansensu  (“nonsensical erotic gore”),  Vania Zouravliov  delivers illustrations which are much more aligned with traditional ukiyo-e prints and classical fine art, with an outstanding blend of eastern and western vibes. Ivan Zouravliov (Vania is a diminuitive) was born in Russia in an artistic environment, his father being a painter and his mother an art teacher. He soon became an internationally recognized prodigy child, exhibiting since the age of 13. He relocated to the UK as an adult, first to study at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, finally to settle down in London. Some of his work was featured in National Geographic, The New York Times, and Duran Duran’s TV Mania album cover. His talent is incredible and well-recognised: he won the D&AD Yellow Pencil Award in 2007, th...
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Best horror manga 2020

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There's something about Japanese horror that you simply won't find elsewhere. It's not just creepy atmospheres, and jump scares, no mere ghost stories nor serial killers going on murder sprees - Japanese fucked up artists are craftmen of anxiety-inducing, spine-chilling combinations of  psychological and body horror  that will get to your head and hunt you at night when you try to sleep. Our list of top horror manga contains some of the scariest and creepiest titles from different artists and masters of horror such as  Junji Ito . Let's dive in! Best Horror Manga 2020 | Top 5 Kiseijuu (Parasyte) by Hitoshi Iwaaki  (1990) [ MyAnimeList  |  Ama z on ] There's a reason you will find Kiseijuu at the  top of many horror manga lists : first released in 1990, it sold more than 11 million copies in Japan, won the Kodansha Manga Award for best general manga in 1993 and the Seiun Award for best manga of the year in 1996, while also ranking 14th as best manga...
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I have no mouth

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream  is an original sci-fi short story written by  Harlan Ellison  in 1966. It won the prestigious Hugo Award for science fiction two years later, and was adapted by the author himself into a point and click graphic adventure game with the same name in 1995, which largely increased the title’s popularity and is today still considered a cult classic of horror videogames. Warning: this review contains spoilers for both the short story and videogame The plot follows the misadventures of five tortured souls. The story is set a post-apocalyptic world in which the Cold War evolved into a world war between three major potencies - the US, Russia, and China - each of which created their own super-computer, or “ Allied Mastercomputer” (AM) . One of the computers soon gained sentience, absorbed the other two, and re-named itself AM (after “ cogito, ergo sum … I think, therefore I  AM ”). Like most sentient beings, AM goes crazy and puts an end to ...
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Takato Yamamoto Dark Aestheticism

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Takato Yamamoto is a rather enigmatic contemporary Japanese artist who is well-known for his dark sensual illustrations, in a style that he himself titled “ Heisei Aestheticism ” (after the Heisei imperial period of Japan - which ran until April 2019). He was born in the Akita prefecture in 1960 and graduated from the painting department of the Tokyo Zokei University. His style is highly influenced by Ukiyo-e , the popular art of woodblock prints and illustrations, while also depicting themes of Ero Guro (erotic gore). Yamamoto's art is also described as decadent, likely due to his choice to depict themes related to BDSM, torture, vampirism and disembowelment in an indiscernible mix of horror, erotism and fantasy. Compared to other fucked up Japanese art like that of Suehiro Maruo ’s or Junji Ito ’s, Yamamoto’s art does not reach high levels of grotesque, being instead often non-violent, with the depiction of characters in states of relative tranquility and dream-like states ...
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