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Ray Caesar’s Victorian Ladies are Seductive and Sinister

Ray Caesar was born in London, England in 1958. He describes his childhood art as “atypical and aberrant” as it was unlike the bright pop art of the 60s and 70s. Drawing inspiration from Classical, Baroque and Romantic era paintings, Caesar creates fantasy scenes that include innocent young girls, sensual young women or ageless divas. Some of these feminine characters seem out of place in their antiquated world, posing in a manner that would have been very unseemly a century ago.

Caesar employs a surrealist style in his paintings, creating eerily realistic scenes in which bizarre things happen. This essence of reality adds to the spooky nature of Caesar’s paintings, bringing ideas, worries and bad dreams to life.
An unusual figure who occasionally appears in Caesar’s paintings is a wolf-headed man. Including this character in his art may be a way for Caesar to put himself into his paintings because his autobiography claims that much to his parents’ surprise he was born a dog. By standing on his hind legs and behaving like a human, Caesar was able to function in human society. Ray Caesar says, “I live in a brick house with my wonderful wife Jane and a coyote called Bonnie. I like eating avocados and I don’t really mind being a dog.”

Visit Ray Caesar’s website to see more of his art and to buy prints of his unusual paintings.

A sexy woman poses in a phone booth in this creepy painting by Ray Caesar


Ray Caesar merges time periods in this surrealist painting of a pale girl in a car


An unsual surrealist painting by Ray Caesar of a beautiful woman with tentacle hands


A young girl in an antique dressing room admires her nails in this creepy surrealist painting by Ray Caesar


A strange surrealist painting by Ray Caesar shows a pale girl with her pet flea


A pale woman with tentacles lies ona couch beneath a glowing chandelier in this painting by Ray Caesar


A pale and beautiful girl serves tea to a dog headed man in this surrealist painting by Ray Caesar


A girl in a batman mask sleeps hanging upside down in the creepy surrealist painting by Ray Caesar


A beautiful French aristocrat holds a cat in this surrealist painting by Ray Caesar


A beautiful Edwardian girl lifts her skirt to reveal tattoos in this Ray Caesar painting


An Asian woman with tentacle feet stands beside a cherry blossom bonsai in this surreal painting by Ray Caesar


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David Walker’s Explosive Spray Paint Portraits

David Walker is a London-based artist who creates explosively colorful portraits of people he’s never met. Each of his art works features a face that the artist found in a book, magazine or photograph. Walker says that the anonymity of his subjects allows the viewer to create their own background story for the person in […]

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