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Weird Art (for Weird People)

Weird art is where imagination runs wild, and rules politely excuse themselves. This community celebrates the bold, the bizarre, the tender, the delightfully unhinged.

If it’s strange, soulful, handmade, and human, it belongs here. All weird art is welcome… as long as it’s not AI-generated.

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Skull Larva
2 inches tall
Made from aluminum foil, masking tape, latex, plastic, "Green Stuff."
Sold in 2025
Enjoy!

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Artist IG: Cardinalofchaoss

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Caitlin’s site: https://www.caitlinhackett.com/about

From Caitlin:

Mirroring ancient myths of transformation in often grotesque ways, we find in contemporary times that animals are being transformed biologically due to interactions with human pollutants; there are frogs with triplicate legs and blind eyes, cows with shriveled sets of legs growing out of their backs, two faced piglets being born on factory farms and radioactive fish rotting from the inside in poisoned seas, the list goes on.

I am interested in the power of these mutations both for their mythological allusions as well as their dire environmental implications. I hope to remind those who view my artwork that we too are animals, embedded in this fragile world even as we poison it.

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Artist’s links: https://linktr.ee/GORDIART

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The artist’s links: https://linktr.ee/sloppjockey

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Located at the Buckhead library in Atlanta, GA.

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A mix of surreal design and architectural ingenuity, Casa Milà, popularly known as La Pedrera (The Quarry), is one of the most ambitious residential Gaudi building in Barcelona.

Completed in 1912, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984. Situated on Passeig de Gràcia, it features a rough-hewn stone façade that undulates like a natural rock formation, with wrought-iron balconies resembling vines.

Gaudí’s innovative use of light and space is evident in the building’s interior courtyards and self-supporting stone façade, eliminating the need for load-bearing walls. The rooftop with its whimsical chimneys and ventilation towers, offers panoramic views of Barcelona.

Source: https://www.insightvacations.com/blog/gaudi-barcelona/

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Some artists have such unique styles that it makes you wonder about the thoughts that run through their heads.

Japanese artist Naoto Hattori is one such artist, as his imaginative pop surrealist paintings combine animals, plants, and more into surreal hybrid figures.

Using a minuscule brush, he paints on small pieces of board ranging in height from 3 to 6 inches.

Source: https://mymodernmet.com/naoto-hattori-pop-surrealism-paintings/

Artist's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naoto_hattori/

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A pair of trussed white pumps are served on a silver plate. The heels are adorned with white paper ruffles of the kind formerly used for chicken or lamb chops at fancy dinners.

In surrealist works such as this, objects that don’t “belong together” are often combined, like in dreams. The surrealists were interested in dreams, sexuality and urges, influenced by Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, which was new at the time. Shoes can also be seen as a fetish, an ordinary object that is charged with sexual meaning.

Source: https://sis.modernamuseet.se/objects/1330/ma-gouvernante--my-nurse--mein-kindermadchen

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From the artist:

[This is] A cover for a short graphic novel I'm creating.

It's psychedelic, it observers existence from the lens of psilocybin trips.

It's a passion project I have started 3 years ago.

Every trip I add a scribble, I write the shapes I see, their conclusions- and then edit.

If you want to see more of my journey of weird creatures and the adventures of the mind-follow me here:

https://www.instagram.com/natatatb

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The Catalan visionary Joan Miró created a quintessential surrealist object when he joined together a pirate's bizarre hoard, including a parrot, a woman's stockinged leg, a map, a hat and a swinging ball.

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