I always enjoy when a painter chooses to depict the grotesque with a Renaissance sense of realism. Christian Rex van Minnen is one such artist.

His keyhole portraits are interesting little image conglomerates inside cutout figures.

Van Minnen’s other portraits take on an abstract, surreal quality.

These impossible chimeras embody royalty, pop culture and anatomically anomalous flora and fauna fused together.

Sea creature! Sweet, ambiguous sea creature…

He also does fantastically alien, fleshy landscapes.

Don’t try too hard to understand. Just enjoy.

See more on the artist site.