If it is not Tailai, the extremes of things will be reversed. When many things reach the extreme, they will be transformed into opposites, joy will turn into sadness, hope will turn into disappointment, emotions will change, and works of art have the same ability.
In the 70s of the last century, roboticist Masahiro Mori proposed the "uncanny valley effect", which describes the emotional changes that occur when we humans see human-like objects, when the object is closer to humans, the more it will cause our fear, of course, the higher the degree of similarity, the more it will cause people's fear, it is almost like a human and there are some obvious differences, the uncanny valley effect will reach its peak.
To put it simply, when an object resembles a human, we treat it as a human being, thus establishing our connection with a humanoid object, but the object is not a real person, causing confusion in our cognition and causing us to be afraid.
Many art creators are also very good at taking advantage of people's psychological changes to create works of art that can stimulate our visual and spiritual world. Mark Lydon from the United States is an illustrator who makes us feel fear through his paintings.
Mark Lydon's family was not good, he faced a big problem after graduating from high school in 1981, he wanted to go to college, but his family did not have the money to support him to go to school, in order to earn enough tuition, he began to paint graffiti murals as much as possible. In Mark Lydon's words, he earned his tuition on "teeth and nails" to get into the Art Center School of Design in Pasadena.
After graduating from college in 1987, Mark Lydon began working as a professional painter, full-time painting, but in order to have enough money to support his creations, he also accepted some theater set and costume design work.
The hard work pays off, Mark Lydon with a unique surreal painting, popular with many people, this unique surreal painting, mainly depicts cute female dolls, but the original innocent and cute dolls, under the artist's painting, the scene becomes very subtle, giving people a sense of unease.
Gorgeous pictures, cute dolls, pink tones, which originally represented innocent and lovely elements, but because of the mysterious expressions and scenes, it has become different, and each painting has a "cute and childish" and "weird and weird" feeling, challenging people's cognition. According to Mark Lydon, the purpose of these works is to reveal the deeper meanings hidden beneath the surface of vulgarity, and to make people feel the conflict between beauty and discomfort.
Next, let's take a look at these seemingly cute, but chilling paintings everywhere.