Spooky Faces Art
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Spooky Faces: The Art of the Human Face
Love the artwork, but wonder where you would hang it? Try a location where you would take a group of people for an in-depth discussion. Make it a conversation starter. Place where your activist or Goth friends can see it. And, of course, Halloween gives you the perfect reason to bring your favorite spooky faces out of the back room and into the "light" of the festivities.
The art can be a drawing, painting, or a clay sculpture, as you see in this example. Mummy Dearest, used with permission.
Facing the Truth
These are not Grandma's favorite portraits of her family relations.
Continue at your own risk.
Missing Faces are Definately Spooky
A missing face is spooky, whether it has been covered over or erased (makes you shiver, doesn't it?). Mummy Dearest is a Raku sculpture mask designed to resemble a mummy's unwrapped face.
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Mummies are fascinating and repulsive to some, and no matter what else the documentary camera does when showing us a mummified corpse, we always wait to see the face even when it makes our bile rise a bit. There is something about seeing the face that makes the mummy rise from dried flesh to personhood.
And Mummy Dearest here may take on several other types of meanings for other people.... art has a way of affecting each person differently.
More on Mummified Faces
Many Kinds of Spooky Faces Art
It is still spooky, though.
The Spooky Face Reflects ourselves
The spooky face looks back at us and in it we often see how we are feeling at the moment. There is a connection that takes place, a subconscious understanding of the emotions the image evokes. Is this what makes the face spooky? Or is the spookiness coming from something inside of us that has made that emotional (and empathetic) connection?Notice the eyes are blank, yet the sense of being watched, or looking around is still evident. What is that about, anyway?
How do you find yourself reacting to this image? Take the poll below, and then see what others are thinking, too.
Lost in Crowds, used with permission. You can purchase a print of this image from the artist by clicking on it and following the link.
Reacting to "Lost in Crowds" Poll
Take a look at the image above. How do you find yourself reacting to it? Are you appalled, disgusted, sad, empathetic? Do you feel something and then scoff at what you have just felt? Perhaps that is the art of drawing the human face -- to bring out that feeling in us we often try to hide.
Inhuman Faces
Or maybe the fear is to be less living human....
What makes a Face a Spooky Face?
While the overall package of nose, eyes, ears, and mouth make a face look like the face that it is, these elements change how it looks, too. How the lines are drawn and where subtle changes occur can change a face from beautiful to spooky.
You can comment on your choice to help us all understand why we associate a certain image of a face with "spooky."
"Poverty, Not my Problem," used with permission. Click on the image to see more of this artist's work.
The Eyes Have It
Can't stand those EYES looking at you, or watching you as you walk around the room? What is it about eyes that haunt us or make us nervous? In these faces the eyes watch everything -- over their shoulder, for danger, for someone to be watching them. Might they have something to hide?I have heard a lot of comments about this image: "It is really well done but I don't want them watching me." and others about the eyes. Even though the eyes have no pupils or irises, we can still tell what they are doing. Interesting, eh?
Add your reaction to the debate below. How do those blank eyes affect you? Are they creepier because they have no pupils?
Eyes of March used with permission. Click on the image if you find this art more fascinating than frightening. You can buy it directly from the artist.
Human Eyes: Which is spookier?
People are affected differently by different looks they get. A glare, a glance, a hollow stare... To each of us it matters more whether the eyes "looking" at us have all the attributes that human eyes ought to have. What do you say?
Are blank eyes creepier than eyes with pupils and irises?
Yes. Blank eyes creep me out the most because they "look" at me and there is nothing in them.
No. eyes with details that "look" at me a certain way are creepier than blank eyes.
Drawing the Spooky Human Face
Does Human Face Art Spook You?
Whether you love the art of the human face, or think it is spooky when not a beautiful portrait, I'd love to hear about it.
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Treasures-By-Brenda Oct 31, 2011 @ 2:41 pm | delete
- Yes, I guess it is spooky.
Nicely done. Congratulations on being a finalist in the Happy Halloween SquidQuest.
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vikksimmons
Oct 31, 2011 @ 1:14 pm | delete
- Doesn't spook me and some of it I find really interesting. Congratulations on making it to the finals in the Happy Halloween contest.
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emmalarkins
Oct 31, 2011 @ 1:01 pm | delete
- Super creepy! Great job!
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JoyfulReviewer
Oct 31, 2011 @ 11:58 am | delete
- Nicely done. Congratulations on being a Happy Halloween Contest finalist!
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