Mark Krzepis
Dante and Virgil in Hell
Illustration
2023
Acrylic gouache, coloured pencils, and graphite on wood panel
16”x20”
A play on Bouguereau’s painting in the style of an Italian fumetti (comic) cover
“Bouguereau and other Neoclassical painters play on fear with their hellish depictions of demons and beasts within their darker paintings. This does not differ from the horror art of comics with magazines like Creepy or Eerie. Both low and high artists utilize fear and the grotesque as a way to intice and shock audiences — it always works. ”
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