Mark Ryden's art is some of the trippiest stuff I've looked at in a while. He paints beautifully intricate and delicate images with recurrent themes of femininity, pop culture, life & death...and bloody meat. His work lures you in with beautiful colors and baby-like subjects and then throws you off balance with an unexpected twist, like a raw pork shank; see his "Incarnation" above.
His stuff is wonderful, perplexing, and disgusting all at the same time. The parallels to Hieronymus Bosch, of the 15th Century, are fairly endless, and I'm sure that Ryden is fine with that. (See below for Ryden's "The Magic Circus," 2001 and Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights," 1504)
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