Bizarre

  1. Lepic, Ce qui Restait du Puissant Guillaume de Naillac
  2. Claeaz, Dancers with Death
  3. Anonymous American, A Naked Man and Horse
  4. Klinger, Amor, Tod und Jenseits (Love, Death and the Hereafter)
  5. Surugue, La Folie pare la Décrépitude
  6. Legros, La Légende du Bonhomme Misère : La Mort dans le Poirier
  7. Rops, L’Enlèvement
  8. Sadeler, Allegory of Opulence, Fornication and Stupidity
  9. Mohlitz, La Vierge aux Étrons (The Virgin of Turds)
  10. Legrand, Épaves de Famille (Oddballs of the Family)
  11. Jacquemart, L’Écurueil (sic)
  12. Benassit, L’Absinthe!
  13. de Bry, Punishment of the Mutinous Indians
  14. Goncourt, Le Singe au Miroir (The Monkey at the Mirror)
  15. Callot, Les Martyrs du Japon
  16. Dillon, Les Mendiants (The Beggars)
  17. Barberis, The Witch
  18. Budzinski, The Thirsty Giant
  19. Meryon, Le Ministère de la Marine
  20. Torre-Bueno, Death’s Arrival
  21. van Meurs, Animals of America
  22. Redon, Félinerie
  23. Chagall, Le Vixe
  24. Martin, Indécision (Tête de Femme)
  25. Rops, Le Calvaire
  26. Rops, Les Frères de la Bonne Trogne
  27. Gillray, Tentanda via est qua ve quoque possim Tollere humo
  28. Underwood, Simian Ecstasy
  29. Veber, Beheaded!
  30. Strang, Death and the Ploughman’s Wife: Frontispiece
  31. Corman, The Temptation of Saint Anthony
  32. Bliss, Gargoyles Spouting
  33. Castellón, Of Land and Sea
  34. Eichenberg, Isaiah 11
  35. Rops, L’Idole (The Idol)
  36. Master MZ, Aristotle and Phyllis
  37. Bracquemond, “Hors de mon soleil, canailles!"
  38. Spare, Nemesis
  39. Higgens, Forgotten
  40. Anonymous, Jewish Amulet to Protect Mother and Child
  41. Daumier, Une Expérience Qui Réussit Trop Bien
  42. Seligmann, Le Roi du Charbon (King Charcoal)
  43. Braun, The Release of Force
  44. Callot, Le Grand Rocher
  45. Forest, Bâstard Foetus Hérédité, Comte D’Averton Mort-Né
  46. Jacque, La Souricière
  47. Veber, “Ah! Qu’il fait chaud"
  48. Pastelot, Les Sorcières
  49. Lepic, Le Verger du Roi Louis (The Orchard of King Louis)
  50. Grandville, Résurrection de la Censure
  51. Tidemann, The Earth Swallows Up the People of Korah
  52. Shields, The Descent
  53. Redon, C’est le diable
  54. Sadeler, Ita Erit et Aventus Filii Hominis



Bizarre

Lepic, Ce qui Restait du Puissant Guillaume de Naillac
Claeaz, Dancers with Death
Anonymous American, A Naked Man and Horse
Klinger, Amor, Tod und Jenseits (Love, Death and the Hereafter)
Surugue, La Folie pare la Décrépitude
Legros, La Légende du Bonhomme Misère : La Mort dans le Poirier
Rops, L’Enlèvement
Sadeler, Allegory of Opulence, Fornication and Stupidity
Mohlitz, La Vierge aux Étrons (The Virgin of Turds)
Legrand, Épaves de Famille (Oddballs of the Family)
Jacquemart, L’Écurueil (sic)
Benassit, L’Absinthe!
de Bry, Punishment of the Mutinous Indians
Goncourt, Le Singe au Miroir (The Monkey at the Mirror)
Callot, Les Martyrs du Japon
Dillon, Les Mendiants (The Beggars)
Barberis, The Witch
Budzinski, The Thirsty Giant
Meryon, Le Ministère de la Marine
Torre-Bueno, Death’s Arrival
van Meurs, Animals of America
Redon, Félinerie
Chagall, Le Vixe
Martin, Indécision (Tête de Femme)
Rops, Le Calvaire
Rops, Les Frères de la Bonne Trogne
Gillray, Tentanda via est qua ve quoque possim Tollere humo
Underwood, Simian Ecstasy
Veber, Beheaded!
Strang, Death and the Ploughman’s Wife: Frontispiece
Corman, The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Bliss, Gargoyles Spouting
Castellón, Of Land and Sea
Eichenberg, Isaiah 11
Rops, L’Idole (The Idol)
Master MZ, Aristotle and Phyllis
Bracquemond, “Hors de mon soleil, canailles!"
Spare, Nemesis
Higgens, Forgotten
Anonymous, Jewish Amulet to Protect Mother and Child
Daumier, Une Expérience Qui Réussit Trop Bien
Seligmann, Le Roi du Charbon (King Charcoal)
Braun, The Release of Force
Callot, Le Grand Rocher
Forest,  Bâstard Foetus Hérédité, Comte D’Averton Mort-Né
Jacque, La Souricière
Veber, “Ah! Qu’il fait chaud"
Pastelot, Les Sorcières
Lepic, Le Verger du Roi Louis (The Orchard of King Louis)
Grandville, Résurrection de la Censure
Tidemann, The Earth Swallows Up the People of Korah
Shields, The Descent
Redon, C’est le diable
Sadeler, Ita Erit et Aventus Filii Hominis
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Throughout the history of drawing and print making artists have frequently produced weird images, a few of them funny, many disturbing, some mysterious, some clearly brutal.  Both the contexts and the sources are varied.  Some were done as political or social satire, some derive from literature or biblical sources, some are dreamlike, some blatantly sexual, some are slashing indictments of human affairs, many are concerned with death and disillusionment, some simply are. But these images are more than mere curiosities.  They reflect some of the darker and more mysterious aspects of the human soul and, in so doing, add to our knowledge of ourselves.  Art, and particularly print making, has always had as one of its primary functions the dissemination of knowledge and information.  A little tour through some of these darker areas may be disturbing, even offensive in places, but also, in its strange and contradictory way, enlightening.