Christie Neptune’s “She Fell from Normalcy” Stills Note On Surrealism, Past and Present Followers of contemporary surreal art, and perhaps this blog, may forget that surrealism (and it’s precursor, Dada) were politically inspired art movements. Dada’s “anti-philosophy” developed in reaction to World War I. Surrealism became notorious for many reasons. One of these was affiliating itself with the […]
This is a guest post written by Adam Lovitz about BalletX’s new René Magritte inspired performance, Bonzi. The details of the performance are here: balletx.org. The performance is showing in Philadelphia. Enter Adam: A common example where two different types of creative mediums influence one another is when a book turns into a screenplay, and then […]
The Unseen In her series “The Unseen”, Lebanese photographer Lara Zankoul pushes the boundaries of photographic surrealism through her constructed life-size sets. Strictly through the use of her camera and with no digital manipulation, Zankoul creates dreamlike images where water is used to depict contrasting characteristics of the characters she photographs. Each image captures a […]
PRESS RELEASE Legendary filmmaker Jan Švankmajer needs your help to produce his final feature film titled Insects. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-last-film-by-jan-svankmajer-insects–4#/ Campaign story After five long years of preparations, legendary Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer is almost ready to start filming his final feature film titled Insects, a misanthropic and surreal imagery echoing Kafka and the Čapek Brothers. Jan […]
Editors note: Don Bergland is an artist creating surreal work using computer graphics as his paintbrush. The “uncanny valley” effect is in full view in Bergland’s work, making the work even more surreal. The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of aesthetics which holds that when features look and move almost, but not […]
