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  • Mark Hopkins Surrealism The landscapes of Mark Hopkins are as gorgeous as they are mind-bending. Hopkins’ surrealistic techniques include playful visual distortion, juxtaposed symbols, and abstract surrealism in combination with a mastery of the craft of painting. The first painting in the gallery above shows the Buddha hovering in the air in an archetypal temple.…

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  • Virginia Stewart: Views From Within

    Virginia Stewart: Views From Within

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    Artist Statement When I sit down to do my art, my intention is to create magic; to create a visual wonderland that brings the gift of insight into the realm of mystical perception. Like Zen, I feel I am a channel for the direct transmission of that phenomenon, the mysterious now. So, when I look…

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  • Waone (Interesni Kazki) Drawings

    Waone (Interesni Kazki) Drawings

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    Waone is an Artist / Muralist from Kyiv, Ukraine. ARTIST STATEMENT The main goal of my art is to find out who am I and explore the outside world.Viewing through the lens of the creative process gives me the possibilityto shift the focus away from the vanity of common life and tap into stranger invisible world,…

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  • Get Out, Atlanta, Sorry to Bother You, and The Afro-Surrealist Film Movement

    Get Out, Atlanta, Sorry to Bother You, and The Afro-Surrealist Film Movement

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    Add “Sorry To Bother You” to the mix and there appears to be an Afro-Surrealism resurgence in Black cinema. Surrealism is the 20-century avant-garde artistic and literary movement that sought to stir the creative potential of the unconscious mind position seemingly irrational imagery adjacent to one another. Artist Salvador Dali is among the most respect…

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  • Nicolas Gadbois Surreal Landscapes

    Nicolas Gadbois Surreal Landscapes

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    Artist Statement: Real Life Surrealism My surreal paintings are taken from scenes in everyday life that have a quality that is strange or otherworldly.  For a number of first wave surrealist painters emptiness was a significant feature in the art. De Chirico and Dali both drew heavily from scenes expressing existential void.  My work focuses…

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