This artwork is Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep: Lovers, by celebrated (he’s won a Hugo Award) science fiction and fantasy artist Donato Giancola. The artwork title is a reference to the famous novel by Philip K. Dick, on the cover of a 2009 edition of which the artwork was used.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
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Red octopus friend
This art is by German artist Camille Hagner, whose website is here, including a short biography. The art is called Wotan, and it is identified as part of the artist’s Dream Cycle. Another tentacular image in that cycle, Sleeping Beauty, appears closely related.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Married to Satan
This Russian-language movie poster displays the text “Вѣнчап их Сатана. Георгій Алексѣевъ, Москва Театр 2-13-08.” According to this blog post, sourced to Russian Film Posters 1900-1930, the poster is for the 1917 movie Married To Satan (directed by directed by V.K. Viskovsky). The poster artist is Georgi Alexeev.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Coffin surprise
This artwork is An Intruder In My Tomb by Mexican artist Rafael Gallur. In response to a DeviantArt comment that the work “looks old school”, Gallur responded “This work is of the Seventy. [1970s?] MY ART BORN IN THAT WONDERFUL OLD SCHOOL. THANKS!”
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Octo-bride
According to a blog post at Frankensteinia, this artwork is The Birth Of The Bride, by artist Frank Bell, who has done a lot of Frankenstein-themed pop art. The artist’s website is here (autoplaying sound warning). Thematically, the art is (of course) an homage to Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (or, as it is sometimes affectionately known, Venus On The Halfshell.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Herbal infusion tube girl
A pair of posts on image forums Gelbooru and Danbooru agree: this artwork is by Tomero, who uses Pixiv for an online home. Although little information about Tomero is available in English, there’s a substantial gallery of Tomero’s work here. The style of this piece might put one in mind of Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Come along now
This is the cover art from the April 1934 issue of Black Book Detective. The artist is Rafael de Soto, a prolific pulp illustrator and the purported descendant of infamous conquistador Hernando de Soto. (From that same link, de Soto’s tube-girl-to-mermaid mad science transformation cover for the May 1940 Terror Tales magazine is also not to be missed.)
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Spider girls
This is The Web Cave, and it is the first of six related pieces in a sequence called The Peking Opera by photographer Liu Zheng. (1 2 3 4 5 6) In an interview, Liu Zheng recently described a 2013 exhibition of his work as having the theme “sex and death”.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Experiment in progress
This image is a screen shot or production still from the movie Serenity, set in the Joss Whedon Firefly universe. The woman in the chair is the character River Tam (played by actress Summer Glau), and according to this site she’s in the Project Oracle lab at the Alliance Academy in this scene. Because the movie was made on a tight budget, the chair is recycled from the set of the movie Species 2, where it was used to restrain actress Natasha Henstridge playing a mutant named Eve.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Dedication
This artwork, in which the slogan “Only in death does duty end” features prominently, is called Sister Hospitaller and is by artist PvtSerrano. The artist introduced it as “a little more Warhammer stuff”, which somewhat cryptic note can be unpacked by reference to the Warhammer 40k wiki page on the Orders Hospitalar. In the Warhammer 40k game universe, “The Orders Hospitaller is a non-militant Order of the Adepta Sororitas dedicated to healing and the provision of medical care for all the citizens of the Imperium.”
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.