Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Famous Paintings, Posters and Cover Art - Battle Royale IV

Prepare for a cultural marathon.

The Garden of Earthly Delights - Tree Man (Hell detail) - Hieronymus Bosch
Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground
The Simpsons - Bart Gets an Elephant
Berserk
Ubik's "arrival" following the birth of Fantasia.
The Immortal Hulk #42 (January 2021)

Saturn Devouring His Son - Francisco Goya
The Obsessed - Lunar Womb
The Simpsons - American History X-cellent
Pale Man - Pan's Labyrinth
Anthropophagous
Cannibal Holocaust (Ultrabit edition)

The Nightmare (1781 version) - Henry Fuseli
Membranes - Dark Matter/Dark Energy
Gothic
The Night Walker
The Sect (2016 release of 1991 film)
Frankenstein (1931)
Elizabeth sprawled out on bed raises eyebrows.

Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801 version) - Jacques-Louis David
Marie Antoinette
Street Fighter (1994)
Lord Burroughs - Clock Tower 3
Powell - The Eye of Typhoon
The Simpsons - The Man Who Grew Too Much

The Scream (detail) - Edvard Munch
Maniacts (2001)
Home Alone (1990)
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
Air Bike Cop (1990)
Snow Bros. 2: With New Elves (1994)
These are less in your face.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (SNES)
The T-1000 caked in molten metal sure rings a bell
Altered Beast (1988)
Take a butchers at bottom right.
Whoa!

Miscellany

Ghost - Prequelle vs Portrait of Pope Innocent X - Diego Velázquez


The Fratellis - We Need Medicine! vs Oh Jeff... I Love You, Too... But... - Roy Lichtenstein


Logic - Everybody vs The Wedding at Cana - Paolo Veronese


Silent Hill: Downpour (Japanese) vs Head VI - Francis Bacon 


The Best of Suede (2010) vs The Scream - Edvard Munch


In terms of style at least.

And when your imagination goes into overdrive.

Blood and Black Lace vs Hunters in the Snow - Pieter Bruegel the Elder


Hmmm.

Paloma Faith - A Perfect Contradiction vs Entombment - Caravaggio


The Ladder (2021) vs Narcissus - Caravaggio


Edit, cut, paste

Not a fan of strategy, but whatever.

Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare vs The Creation of Adam (hands detail) - Michelangelo


Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash vs The Raft of the Medusa¹ - Théodore Gericault


¹Also used for Great White - Sail Away (1994) and Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans (2009).

Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - Pardon My French vs Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1801 version) - Jacques-Louis David


Westside Gunn - Pray for Paris vs David with the Head of Goliath (1607 version) - Caravaggio


Ragnarok - Malediction vs Virgin of Consolation - William-Adolphe Bouguereau


Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion (series) vs School of Athens (detail) - Raphael


Legend Killers - Locked Inside vs Bond of Union - M. C. Escher


Chris Liebing - Burn Slow vs The Entry of Animals into Noah's Ark - Jan Brueghel the Elder


Saint Etienne - Tiger Bay vs Welcome, Bonny Boat - James Clarke Hook


Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet vs Bacchus and Ariadne - Titian


Multiples

Cradle of Filth - Existence is Futile (2021)

Front vs The Garden of Earthly Delights - Smoking Creature (Hell detail) - Hieronymus Bosch


Back vs Saturn - Peter Paul Rubens


Daredevil - Season 2 teaser posters

The Last Judgment - Michelangelo


St. Sebastian - Peter Paul Rubens

Caravaggio

David with the Head of Goliath (1610 version)


Saint Jerome Writing


Francis Bacon

Study After Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X


Yeah, he just added a horror spin.

What's this?

Faith: The Unholy Trinity
And.

Dissimulation - Atiduokit Mirusius

Figure With Meat
One of his most famous works is once again based on Pope Innocent X.

Slabs of beef were likely inspired by either Rembrandt's Flayed Ox (left) or Joachim Beuckelaer's Slaughtered Pig (right). 


Check out these beauties.

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
As per AutofictionSuedes's latest Antidepressants is the second in a planned trilogy of "black and white" albums. 

Artwork alludes to John Deakin's 1962 photograph of Bacon referencing...


And most devious of all.

To the Grave - Director's Cuts (2023)
Sure there's a shitload going on, but even so.

Rip offs

Shit is about to get exciting.

Thirteen Senses - Contact vs The Pleasure Principle (Portrait of Edward James) - René Magritte


Soulfly - Archangel vs St. Michael Vanquishing Satan - Raphael


Mulholland Drive (2022 release of 2001 film) vs Morning Sun - Edward Hopper


DmC: Devil May Cry (2013)

Ninja Theory's reboot took the Caravaggio.

David with the Head of Goliath (1610 version) 


The Incredulity of Saint Thomas


The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew


The Taking of Christ


Gotta admit, awesome work.

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