Art That Keeps You on Edge

The most tense, anxious, and suspenseful paintings. Artworks that create a visceral sense of unease and dread.

Untitled by Craig Mullins
Untitled by Craig Mullins
Untitled by Craig Mullins
unknown title by Jacques Le Marechal
Untitled by Craig Mullins
Paulina by Thomas Lawrence
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
unknown title by Jacques Le Marechal
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
Mrs Siddons by Thomas Lawrence
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
Untitled by Craig Mullins
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
unknown title by Jacques Le Marechal
unknown title by Jacques Le Marechal
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
Untitled by Craig Mullins
Mrs Siddons by Thomas Lawrence
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
Untitled by Zdzislaw Beksinski
Supermarket by Tetsuya Ishida
? (Surautomatism) by Dolfi Trost
Fountain of Milk Spreading Itself Uselessly on Three Shoes by Salvador Dali
unknown title by Jacques Le Marechal
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Mattia Preti
unknown title by Fikret Mualla Saygi
Sexual intercourse by Francesco Hayez
Whip His Image Until Bleeding (Hypnagogic Movement) by Dolfi Trost
The Small Crucifixion by Matthias Grünewald
The Crucifixion 3 (detail) by Matthias Grünewald
Untitled by Craig Mullins
unknown title by Albin Brunovsky
The stoning of Stephen by Fra Angelico
Egyptian Warrior by Konstantin Makovsky
Dali's Hand Drawing Back the Golden Fleece in the Form of a Cloud to Show Gala,Completely Nude,the Dawn,Very,Very Far Away Behind the Sun by Salvador Dali
Woman Machine-Gunner in a State of Grace by Hans Bellmer
Erotic Beach by Salvador Dali
unknown title by Fikret Mualla Saygi
Satan by Odilon Redon
Colossus of Rhodes by Maerten van Heemskerck
unknown title by Antonietta Raphael
Fifty Abstract Paintings Which as Seen from Two Yards Change into Three Lenins Masquerading as Chinese and as Seen from Six Yards Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal Tiger by Salvador Dali
Shipwreck by J.M.W. Turner
The Burning of the Houses of Parliament by J.M.W. Turner
Blood on the Floor by Francis Bacon