Mark Ryden’s Dark Fairy-Tales
It has been said that for maximum impact, an artist needs only to juxtapose two contrasting things.
The phenomenal painter Mark Ryden does this spectacularly, by reaching into the viewer’s mind for familiar images of innocence and then placing them in an unsettling context.
The children in his creations seem to be continually challenged by a dark presence to which they either react, or more disturbing still, act normal around…
The original versions of most fairy tales were very dark and violent, a far cry from the syrupy banalities of a Disney cartoon or the slick dialogue of the latest computer generated smartass. Ryden’s technique somehow taps into this older fairy-tale realm and by combining it with the familiar, heightens the final effect:
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