This grisly head is unmistakably a self-portrait, painted on one of the flights that took Caravaggio — pursued by enemies, tormented by grief and horror — from Rome, where he had been sentenced to death for murder in 1606, to Naples, Malta, Sicily and back to Naples, heading once more for Rome.
She built her own language of weirdly articulated human forms, hybrids, dismembered limbs and grisly heads separated from bodies, black sockets for eyes and mouth, or with tongues doubling as livid penises, disembodied phalluses ejaculating blood, women-men and howling banshees warning of death and disaster.
Saleam said the grisly mannequin heads weren't really his.
Two works by Robert Arneson in this intermittently entertaining exhibition affirm that it can: one is a satire of racism in the form of a larger-than-life self-portrait of the artist in blackface called "Yas Suh!" The other, presenting a grisly, charred human head on a pedestal, is titled "Nuclear Warhead".
The case turned even more grisly when Wiggins' head and arms were found inside large flower pots.
The bold appliqué tapestries in the museum show grisly scenes of heads being crushed in vices and other run-of-the-mill bonkers-king stuff.
Fangoria (subtitled "Monsters — Aliens — Bizarre Creatures") catered to aficionados of the new wave of hypergory spectacle, luring them in with grisly covers, which featured decomposing heads, exploding heads, more decomposing heads, and the occasional half-man/half-cat head.
(Scott) 'ONE MISSED CALL' A brow-furrowing blend of child abuse and adult trauma, Eric Valette's reworking of Takashi Miike's "Chakushin Ari" follows a dour psychology student whose friends suffer grisly deaths after receiving heads-ups on their cellphones.
There are horror-film conventions -- eerie sounds, slow camera movements, half-open doors and carefully arranged shadows -- that retain their effectiveness no matter how many times you've seen them before, and Mr. Mangold adds to these a grisly repertory of severed heads and bloody handprints.
Post-medication, the grisly contents of his own head spilled out into traumatic flashbacks that haunted his fraught homecoming.
The picture itself is not disturbing -- certainly nowhere near as grisly as Kennedy's smashed head on an autopsy table, which was shown in several documentaries for the 40th anniversary of his death last November.
