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Surrealist Vincent Fink’s “Atlas Metamorphosis” Visionary Journey into 4 Mind-Bending Epochs
Editor’s Note: Vincent Fink’s limited edition prints are now available for purchase in the Surrealism Today online store. This is part 2 in a 3 part series. We have previously covered Vincent Fink’s Iterations project. Atlas Metamorphosis Vincent Fink’s work is surrealism in it’s purest form. His dark images with warped perspectives invite the viewer…
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Thoughts On Contemporary Surrealism
Some Thoughts on Surrealist Art Today
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Vincent Fink: Surrealistic Iterations
Editor’s Note: Vincent Fink’s limited edition prints are now available for purchase in the Surrealism Today online store. Artist Statement In the pursuit to better redefine modern surrealism, I often find myself indulging in the vibrancy of color and concise composition with flaring elements of Sacred Geometry. The same level of intense detail is implored…
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Alice Zilberberg – Meditations
We have previously covered Alice Zilberberg on Surrealism Today. Statement In this series, Zilberberg creates animal montages as an expression of self-therapy. As an urbanite, functioning day-to-day in a fast-paced, built environment can be emotionally unsettling. The artist regrounds herself in the sense of calm issued by these animals. These creatures reinstate a presence, a…
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Cheryl Frey Richards
Statement Recently, I have been exploring life’s destinations and how they are recorded. I am fascinated with how people have documented their memories; presently and in the past with social and pictorial fervor. My images deal with the contradiction of letting go but at the same time wanting to forever hold on. Filtered photos and…
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Arabella Proffer
Series: Acids and Sugars This series brings together my interests in botany, microbiology, space, disease, and the evolution of cells. I subconsciously explore the relationships between anatomy, biology, nature, and emerging sciences while creating from my own imagination. These paintings sometimes mirror personal metaphysical occurrences, and, at times, contain a slight nod to art history,…
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Francesca Harvie
Artist Statement I like to illustrate uncomfortable, weird, and complex personified feelings. I try to make my viewer uncomfortable and introspective, yet interested. The goal is to put onto paper in illustration what I cannot in words, and reach out to others who may empathize. Also, color is rad and I like to go overboard…
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Important Contemporary Pop-Surrealist and Collage Artists
Known alternatively as the Lowbrow movement, Pop Surrealism is an art form that originated in LA’s underground scene in the 1970s. Like other surrealist art forms, lowbrow art strives to reach deep into the unconscious mind and bring to life our innermost thoughts. Our compulsions, hidden memories, and more are displayed in unusual and absurd…
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Jem Ham
Jem Ham is an Australian, self-taught artist who started painting on brick walls with water at the age of four. Fascinated by the way the watermarked the brick and the ability to bring to life something from within, his love for art was born. Since then, it has been a journey of self-discovery through art,…
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Valeriu Buev
The paintings of Moldovan artist Valeriu Buev explore the strange and poetic tragedy of the human condition. Although Buev uses the language of surrealism and dream, his stunning images remain fully rooted both psychically and technically in material reality. Through the processes of distortion and imagination, Buev confronts the stark costs of humanity’s darker tendencies,…
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Return of the Salvador Dalí Tarot
When most people think about Salvador Dalí, the first thing that comes to mind is likely his mind-bending work as one of the vanguards of surrealism—melting clocks, spindly-limbed monsters, bizarre tableaus that tread the line between dreamscape and nightmare… either that or his trademark mustache. However, Dalí’s oeuvre is not simply limited to oil paintings;…
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Luciano Sanchez
Luciano Sanchez is a lowbrow pop-surrealist artist who focuses on themes of Kustom Kulture through post-apocalyptic, vintage, and science-fiction lenses. Artist Statement My work is within the movement appeared in the late 1970s in California known as Lowbrow Art or Pop-surrealism, This allows me to have a field of creation where the main protagonists are…
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Gadzooxtian
Biography Melbourne artist Xtian was conceived in East Germany but born in Hungary – that makes him one part Australian and two parts former communist. He’s been actively collaging for two-plus decades – but is not adverse to making music or short animations. His works can best be described as questions, or “edge of comprehension”.…
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Albane Simon
About Albane Simon Imagine a world where linear time has lost all relevance. A place where past memories and future visions dance in a familiar present gone awry, this is where nightmares collide with lucid clarity. Touching on topics diverse as ecology, science, architecture, and spirituality. instagram.com/albanesurrealcollagist/
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James McCarthy
James McCarthy is a surrealistic landscape painter. McCarthy’s psychedelic/cosmic mindscapes wrestle with the concepts of space-time and the afterlife. Artist’s Statement I’m a surrealist but I also consider myself a landscape painter. I like to paint biomorphic forms but I’m also interested in capturing the moods of various landscapes. I like to depict the weather…