Dystopia

[GregCentauro]

The Triumph of Death - Pieter Brueghel

Hell - Hieronymus Bosch

Guernica - Pablo Picasso

Nighthawks - Edward Hopper

American Gothic - Grant Wood

 

[BlueBalls]

Triumph of Death.

 

[lurkingdirk]

Guernica. That's some dark shit.

 

[sdj374]

Tough call between Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Bosch but I have to give it to Bosch. Did he paint anything other than pictures of hell?

 

[jasonk282]

Nighthawks

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

I don't see how any of these are dystopian, but I'm drunk.

 

[DreamSparrow]

Guernica's not just hellish; it feels like complete madness. It's the perfect illustration of war.

 

[Cpt.Obvious]

Eddie Baby

 

[Neutron66]

I don't see how any of these are dystopian, but I'm drunk.

Same here. Except for the drunk part.

How exactly are those examples "dystopian?"

 

[STDiva]

American Gothic scares me, and I don't know why.

 

[Shadowfax 10]

Guernica.

 

[Gordar]

The best depictions of a dystopian world have been made by HR Giger IMHO. Sadly you didn't list him. Of all the paintings & painters you've posted I think Hell, made by Bosch, resembles it the most.

If one doesn't take the title of the painting into account, one sees unhappy, tormented, plagued, etc. humans, but certainly not dead humans. Since, AFAIK dystopia is not about death but the most miserable possible society I think this painting applies best (still, considering these people are in hell, they're probably dead...).

 

[STDiva]

Is that supposed to be a person peering through the window in Nighthawks?? Wikipedia doesn't mention anything about it, and Hopper has stated that Nighthawks is more about a predator stalking it's victim than it is about loneliness.

 

[turtle825]

:dunno:

 

[jayaprak]

Nighthawks

 

[drf]

The Triumph of Death. A pretty brutal depiction of death and war. Death can't be conquered and war never ends.

 

[jdb67]

Triumph of Death

 

[StanScratch]

I chose Triumph of Death, though Guernica is quite disturbing.