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Konan Lim

Last Modified December 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

Painting by Konan Lim

About Konan Lim

Konan Lim is a Dubai-based Filipino artist. Lim was born and raised in the Philippines and discovered his passion for art at a young age. During his childhood, Lim won numerous art competitions. In 2005 he received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture at Western Mindanao State University, Zamboanga City, Philippines.

In 2007 he moved to Dubai to work as an Architect while still pursuing painting. From 2012 he participated in several local exhibitions to international shows. He has been commissioned in mural art events & collaborated with several artists.

Lim whimsically portrays childhood nostalgia through his representational paintings. The works play on the boundaries of playfulness and cuteness-overload but with something strange ominous permeating the atmosphere. Each work is exquisitely rendered and painterly: Lim’s craftmanship is surpassed only by his own strange imagination.

Lim’s images juxtapose conflicting emotions into a unified narrative: suggesting something strangely distorted and through-the-looking-glass about childhood memory in his compelling, surrealistic images.

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Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Alegorical, Animals, Anxiety, Figurative, Juxtaposition, Painterly, Psychological, Victorian, Whimsical

Genres: Lowbrow and Pop-Surrealism

Frank Moth

Last Modified December 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

About Frank Moth

Frank Moth creates nostalgic postcards from a distant but at the same time familiar future. He makes digital collages and compositions with specific, distinctive color palettes, in a critically acclaimed style that is immediately recognizable. Frank Moth was born in Athens in March 2014. He exists as an artist and as an alias for the two people that hide behind him. He has been featured in many publications worldwide, such as Huffington Post US, as well as Buzzfeed and MTV Greece. His work is currently showcased around the world in many galleries online

You Will Find Me There - by Frank Moth
Welcome Back - By Frank Moth
We Chose This Road My Dear - by Frank Moth
We are all fisherman - By Frank Moth
Those Evenings - By Frank Moth
They Are Waiting For us - By Frank Moth
The Unexpected - By Frank Moth
The Manual - By Frank Moth
Thassos - By Frank Moth
Stand By Me - By Frank Moth
Since I Left You - By Frank Moth
Sad - By Frank Moth
My Worlds Fall Apart - by Frank Moth
Love Is Alway Waiting - By Frank Moth
Heroes - By Frank Moth
Her - by Frank Moth
Happines Here - by Frank Moth
Forest Angel - by Frank Moth
Follow Me - by Frank Moth
Bright Cinnamon - by Frank Moth
Be - By Frank Moth
Across the History - by Frank Moth
24916 - By Frank Moth

Artist Statement

The compositions are mainly human-centered. The presence of the human element is obvious, yet perpetually incomplete. There’s always something missing, interrupted, or covered. The face, for example, is usually covered and many times it’s not even there, so as to not surrender its vulnerable introspection, insecurity, and psychic truth without a fight.

Depersonalization/Derealization

In many of Frank Moth’s works people are pictured gazing upon themselves and their own lives on Earth from some distant point in outer space. The perspective of all things always seems to be on a strange verge, between a dream and an urban daily life.

The smothering failure of man to define and refine happiness today within geographic, temporal, and material {technological and consumerist} bounds, is repeatedly alluded to through the use of old, manipulated paper ads from decades past, as well as old fashion magazines.

Revision/Revival/Rebirth/Insecurity

Many of the artworks feature a subtle expression of companionship or the silent, solitary, obsessive search for it {the people usually have their backs turned and there is a hint of movement in the scenery}, combined with the surreal size disproportion and the disturbed relation between man and his environment/surroundings.

Obsession/Music/Pixels/Architecture

This is an attempt to create harmony between people and their surroundings, however imaginary, by using the eternal elements of colours, numbers, simple geometric shapes, symmetry, and subtraction, as well as universal words and concepts like “love”, “together”, “forever”, “never”, “infinity”, “why”.

Frank Moth

Filed Under: Collage Tagged With: Alegorical, Anxiety, Cinema, Conceptual, Figurative, Found Materials, Juxtaposition, Pop Culture, Psychological, Sci-fi, Space

Genres: Lowbrow and Pop-Surrealism, Surrealism

Felix Colgrave

Last Modified December 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

Felix Colgrave Prints
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Filed Under: Video and Cinema Tagged With: Alegorical, Animals, Anxiety, Conceptual, Disintegration, Figurative, Limited Color Palette, Macabre, Sci-fi

Genres: Lowbrow and Pop-Surrealism

George Tooker

Last Modified November 8, 2017 Leave a Comment

George Tooker was an American figurative painter. His works are associated with Magic realism, Social realism, Photorealism and Surrealism. His subjects are depicted naturally but the images use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality. He did not agree with the association of his work with Magic realism or Surrealism, as he said, “I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.”

https://surrealismtoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/George-Tooker-NPR.mp3
via NPR

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Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Alegorical, Anxiety, Limited Color Palette, Lyrical, Portrait, Psychological

Genres: Surrealism

Tetsuya Ishida Surrealistic paintings

Last Modified April 23, 2019 1 Comment

About Tetsuya Ishida

Tetsuya Ishida came of age as a painter during Japan’s “lost decade”—a time of nationwide economic recession that lasted through the 1990s. In his afflictive paintings, he captured the feelings of hopelessness, claustrophobia, and emotional isolation that burdened him and dominated Japanese society. From his early career until his untimely death in 2005, Ishida provided vivid allegories of the challenges to Japanese life and morale in paintings and graphic works charged with dark Orwellian absurdity.

Ishida was born in 1973 in Yaizu, Japan, and died in 2005 in Tokyo. He graduated in 1996 from Musashino Art University, Tokyo. Solo exhibitions include The person who was not able to fly, Sunpu Museum, Shizuoka, Japan (2006); Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan (2007); Yaizu City Culture Center, Japan (2007); Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo (2008); Note of Tetsuya Ishida, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Japan (2013, traveled to Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Japan; Tonami Art Museum, Japan; and Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan, through 2015); Notes, Evidence of Dreams, Tonami Art Museum, Japan (2014); and Saving the World with a Brushstroke, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2014). – via gagosian.com/artists/tetsuya-ishida/

Tetsuya Ishida on Wikipedia

Books Available on Amazon:

TETSUYA ISHIDA: A Collection of Posthumous [Japanese]

Tetsuya Ishida Complete Art Works (BOOK) [Japanese Edition]

Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Anxiety, Figurative, Painterly, Politics, Psychological

Genres: Surrealism

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