Category: Horror in Art

Frida: the Making of an Icon (2026)

Posted on by Helen Creighton

Frida: The Making of an Icon, part of the Exhibition on Screen series, opens with a recording of Kahlo’s painting El Sueno (La cama) – or The Dream (The bed) – selling at the Exquisite Corpus auction of Surrealist art at Sotheby’s for a staggering $57.4 million. The painting depicts Frida sleeping on a wooden […]

Horror in Art: The Devil, Sin and The Bottle – Artwork by George Cruikshank

Posted on by Keri O'Shea

Britain has an illustrious history of cartoonists and illustrators who have been ready to represent life and all its ugliness in spectacularly ugly fashion. Hogarth’s work still has the power to repel, and in Georgian Britain, caricaturist James Gillray made things even more grotesque, regularly representing the monarchy for whom the era was named as […]