Artists reflected these shadowy changes. In 1827 Eugène Delacroix drew a demon — Goethe's devil Mephistopheles. The lithograph shows him flying over a dark city, the incarnation of evil with ...

For a new generation of painters, among them Dominique Fung, María Fragoso, Jill Mulleady, Naudline Pierre, and Katja Seib, reality is best processed through fantastical art.

Many renowned artists took inspiration from such morbidity. For example, van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton , which depicts a skeleton with a cigarette between its teeth, lends a casualness to death.

There are currently some 22 African countries living under a form of dictatorship. To surmount such oppression, many artists and painters have created work over the years as a means of intervention, ...