It's October, the month of all things spooky. It took mere seconds of pondering who would make a good Halloween artist before I realized that Yves Tanguy would be perfect. He is an artist whose work is at once beautiful and terrifying.

Creating most of his works in the 20's and 30's, Tanguy was a surrealist painter. After Tanguy embraced the art world (and vice versa) in the mid 20's he blanketed himself in the bohemian lifestyle. He stuck with it even after being a starving artist ended his first marriage. But it wasn't long before he found his soul's true match: fellow painter and poet, Kay Sage, a second marriage for each artist.

Both Kay and Tanguy's works are dark, and quite uncomfortable to look at. Tanguy's canvases often show a depiction of sharp objects-- abstract shapes, really but they kinda look more like murder weapons. Set against a stormy, dark background the works evoke something sinister, something threatening.

"The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun.

When you find a painting that you love, and especially when you spend money to get it custom made, you want to really show your new piece of work off! One easy way to elicit ooohs and ahhhs is through putting the proper lighting on your artwork.