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The Creepy Art of Human Bones
Art, Compilation, Inspiration
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François Robert is a photographer renowned for both his commercial and fine art photography work.
In the mid 90’s, Robert purchased three lockers from a school for $50.00 to furnish his studio. To his surprise, one of the lockers contained a human skeleton, which had been mounted for teaching purposes.
Since he always had a fascination with bones, once spending five weeks photographing skulls in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, he decided to take some of his free time caused by the recession of 2007 and trade in his skeleton for a collection of 206 loose bones.
He arranged these into simple, yet controversial shapes to form the images that you see below over a period of hundreds of hours, resulting in a collection that he titled “Stop the Violence” - a series that he created to increase awareness of war violence. The results are amazing, yet haunting. Check them out below…
911

Bomb

Cross

Dollar Sign

Fighter Jet

Grenade

Gun

Hammer and Sickle

HIV

Islamic Symbol

Kalashnikov

KKK

Knife

Mushroom Cloud

Oil

Skull and Cross Bones

Star of David

Swastika

Tank

War
Compiled exclusively for WDD by Zoe Ajiboye.
You can visit Robert’s website here. What do you think of this type of art? Please share your thoughts below…
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#1
Levi
June 17th, 2010 at 10:50
This is craaaaaazy!!!!
May I ask: how many free ours they have in a day????? )
Levi

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#2
steve
June 17th, 2010 at 10:55
nice but creepy!

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#3
Luis Lopez
June 17th, 2010 at 11:42
Execllent this is art, that show us that you can use anything to create art, in this case I don’t think is creepy, cause the idea about war is clear and what else could represent better that concept?

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#4
Jerry
June 17th, 2010 at 11:53
Stunning and simply amazing….

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#5
SEO Birmingham
June 17th, 2010 at 11:55
Very cleaver idea and to think it had stemed from 3 lockers lol! Great post once again.

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#6
Rahul
June 17th, 2010 at 11:55
Great Job..

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#7
Boomer
June 17th, 2010 at 12:26
Wow this is great, wish I ad the idea first.

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#8
Darkened Soul
June 17th, 2010 at 13:23
I wish I had come up with this one though, I like it alot!

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#9
Al-Kanz
June 17th, 2010 at 14:58
C’est glauque 8/

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#10
trimbakeshwar
June 17th, 2010 at 15:01
oh!!
i m just appraised by looking at this..
what made u to think like this…..
u must be different….
good luck…

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#11
Bálint Molnár
June 17th, 2010 at 15:43
Levi, I agree with you at all

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#12
Jordan Walker
June 17th, 2010 at 16:40
Awesome depictions.

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#13
Brandon
June 17th, 2010 at 17:00
Lumping all of these subjects into one collection doesn’t express discernment, and frankly this isn’t very original.

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#14
Michael Saathoff
June 17th, 2010 at 17:01
very creative stuff, a little dark for my taste but definitely creative!

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#15
Chris Mower
June 17th, 2010 at 17:14
Having graduated in Biology and spent my fair share of time around dead human bodies in the cadaver lab, I just have to say that this doesn’t creep me out at all. It’s rather artistic for sure though, and does help express his point.

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#16
Kelley
June 17th, 2010 at 17:59
Wow! Beautiful!
Amazing how many textures can be created from arranging bones. Reminiscent of textures in wood-cut lettering.

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#17
pesho
June 17th, 2010 at 18:11
so creeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy

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#18
Daniel Hagy
June 17th, 2010 at 18:19
Bone-chilling but very creative, telling a positive message to “Stop the Violence”.

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#19
Melissa joyce
June 17th, 2010 at 18:25
No words can compare these work because it is too fantastic .Great Thanks for the variety posting….

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#20
javi
June 17th, 2010 at 19:07
magnific! original and explicit!

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#21
wildanr05
June 17th, 2010 at 21:37
Bone art

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#22
Tegin
June 17th, 2010 at 23:08
Islamıc symbol is just a crescent , don’t have star.

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#23
Tanya
June 17th, 2010 at 23:39
Amazing work. I remeber my biology class after looking at these graphics

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#24
sokak trendi
June 18th, 2010 at 00:10
Really creepy, but I like his way of thinking.

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#25
Jae Xavier
June 18th, 2010 at 02:21
lol…
I saw a post on bones used for platform heels…
Now this…
I can make a library of 3D skeletons bones and accomplish the same thing… but I don’t want to.

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#26
丕子
June 18th, 2010 at 02:32
wonderful

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#27
Tom - New Evolution
June 18th, 2010 at 02:48
That was pretty cool, and different.

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#28
Gert van den Brink
June 18th, 2010 at 11:35
Really creative, but a little creepy at the same time.
Thanks for sharing

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#29
RedKoala
June 18th, 2010 at 14:03
that’s seriously creepy but in the same time so awesome. What a guy!

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#30
adam
June 18th, 2010 at 17:20
Saw this the other day, really interesting and great work.

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#31
Ali Sipahioglu
June 18th, 2010 at 21:38
This is the second comment im writing about that moon and the start not being the islamic symbol. you guys didn’t approve me first one for some reason

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#32
Walter
June 19th, 2010 at 08:54
Your first comment was probably flagged as spam and deleted. My apologies for the oversight. As for your comment, can you elaborate on what you mean? This link seems to indicate that the symbol was correctly labeled:
http://islam.about.com/od/history/a/crescent_moon.htm

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Ali Sipahioglu
June 21st, 2010 at 21:37
No worries. It was adopted by the Ottoman Empire, as it is also stated in that article, from the Byzantine Empire so it actually was used by a Christian empire first. It is usually mistaken just because Ottoman Empire was a big Muslim empire and just happened to use that symbol.
The symbol is also used in the Turkish flag and the flag wasn’t chosen like that because of its islamic relations but because of other reasons.
Also you can see towards the end of that article it says;
“Based on this history, many Muslims reject using the crescent moon as a symbol of Islam”

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#34
SeraphimChris
June 19th, 2010 at 00:48
Wow, these are some nice works of art. creepy yes, but still inspirational.

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#35
Mars
June 19th, 2010 at 07:33
poor bones, i hope their soul is well rested

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#36
William Baldwin
June 20th, 2010 at 19:13
Talk about your Visual metaphors! Bones portraying the causes of death and suffering.
Excellent! diversion from the stifled straight line thinking.

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shawn daughty
June 21st, 2010 at 09:01
fantastic and creepy

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#38
I-kandy
June 21st, 2010 at 16:51
Creepy!!! But interesting…

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#39
ellroy
June 21st, 2010 at 18:01
Maybe you could find this similar & intersting too:
http://www.behance.net/gallery/TALES-FOR-A-SWEET-DEMISE/481811

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Elizabeth Kaylene
June 21st, 2010 at 21:01
Stunning.
I don’t like that he did the Islamic flag, though; I’m taking it that each of these symbols and words he constructed are things that cause death, and I’m tired of the stigma that is being attached to Muslim culture and religion. Suicide bombers and terrorists are extremists. The real Muslim religion is actually very peaceful, similar to Buddhism in some ways.
Still, this is a stunning gallery.

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#41
yulianti
June 22nd, 2010 at 05:34
it’s cool..

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#42
Annagloul
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:47
Great composition and use of “the bones variations” and writing “War” with bones really stresses subconsciously what war brings, I enjoy art with concept, Great work..

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#43
Website design shrewsbury
June 23rd, 2010 at 03:02
I think this is just great, a lovely example on how to use bones for art The images actually have a great meaning to the if you look into them properly with an open mind, great work.

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#44
Rushty
June 24th, 2010 at 00:45
MIND-BLOWING CREATIVE

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#45
arieff
June 27th, 2010 at 09:02
Talk about your Visual metaphors! Bones portraying the causes of death and suffering.
Excellent! diversion from the stifled straight line thinking.

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#46
Chris J.
July 8th, 2010 at 01:55
Who would’ve thought our bones could be a nice piece of art? Robert did.

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#47
ardhan
July 8th, 2010 at 02:52
it’s creepy enough

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#48
utari
July 8th, 2010 at 11:21
awesome..great design!

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#49
eric
July 16th, 2010 at 12:19
thanks for share…
wonderfull

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#50
wij
July 19th, 2010 at 02:34
that’s crazy idea….
amazing imagination design…

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#51
tedted
July 19th, 2010 at 05:15
so artistic and unique

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