• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Submit Art
  • Contact
  • Buy Us A Coffee

Surrealism Today

Contemporary surreal, visionary and pop surreal art

Shop
  • Painting
  • Collage
  • Artists
  • Digital
  • Visionary & Psychedelic
  • Lowbrow & Pop-surrealism
Home » Biology

Biology

Franc Kaiser’s Industrial Ecosystems

Last Modified December 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

Franc Kaiser is a self-taught Swiss painter residing in Shanghai, China. Franc paints with acrylics on cardboard substrates. Each painting starts with an idea and sketch, and the composition is then penciled on a cardboard. The paintings progress in several stages, from a build-up of basic values with acrylic paint to detailed layers, which can take days or weeks. The finished paintings are signed and varnished.

Franc often paints ugly cats, in a realistic depiction, with 10% surreal elements thrown in the mix. He is inspired by the feel of 1970s sci-fi illustrations. He feels that the paintings are a necessity for him – visual motives, ideas, and messages pop up manifold throughout the day, and he needs to paint them to cleanse his mind. He tends to explore the ruthlessness of biology whilst avoiding any romanticizing of nature. Although he is a foreigner living in China, Asian or Chinese design elements are rarely found in his work – the subjects express just that “fish out of water” allegory. His daily feeling and experience of living in a different, alien culture and context reflects in both fascination and fear, opportunity and shortcomings, and brood behind the surface of his paintings. Franc’s first international exhibitions were at the Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, at group shows in 2020 and 2021. Currently he is preparing for a mini-solo show with the same gallery, opening in August 2021.

If we cannot be free, we can at least be cheap.

All paintings are acrylics on cardboard, 2020 and 2021

Franc Kaiser

Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Biology, Mysticism, Nature, Sci-fi

Genres: Lowbrow and Pop-Surrealism, Surrealism

Sofia Crespo’s Neural Zoo

Last Modified June 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

This is Neural Zoo, a zoological & botanical collection of nature that doesn’t exist imagined in collaboration with a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network).

Sofia Crespo is an artist with a huge focus in bio arts and technologies. One of her main interests is the way organic life uses artificial mechanisms to simulate itself and evolve, this implying the idea that technologies are a biased product of the organic life that created them and not a completely separated object. On the side, she is also hugely concerned with the dynamic change in the role of the artists working with machine learning techniques.

instagram.com/soficrespo91
twitter.com/soficrespo91

Filed Under: Contemporary Surreal Digital Art Tagged With: Animals, Biology, Psychological

Genres: Abstract Surrealism, Surrealism

Ryota Matsumoto – Variable Phase Opacities

Last Modified September 23, 2017 Leave a Comment

Artist Statement

Matsumoto’s artwork reflects the morphological transformations of our ever-evolving ecological milieus that are attributed to a multitude of spatio-temporal phenomena influenced by socioeconomic and built environments. They are created as visual commentaries on speculative changes in notions of societies, cultures and ecosystems in the transient nature of shifting topography and geology.
The artwork explores the hybrid technique combining both traditional media (ink, acrylic, graphite, and photo collage) and digital media, manifesting the collective recognition of a multiplicity of epistemological viewpoints in all cognitive dimensions of spatiality.
The varying scale, juxtaposition of biomorphic forms, intertwined textures, oblique projections and visual metamorphoses are employed as the multi-layered drawing methodologies to question and investigate the ubiquitous nature of urban meta-morphology, the eco-political reality of the Anthropocene epoch, the advancement of biomaterial technologies and their visual representation in the context of non-Euclidean configuration. Furthermore, the application of these techniques allow the work to transcend the boundaries between analog and digital media as well as between two- and multi-dimensional domains.
His compositional techniques imbue the work with what we see as the very essence of our socio-cultural environments beyond the conventional protocols of architectural and artistic formalities, and that they conjure up the synthetic possibilities within which the spatial and temporal variations of existing spatial semiotics emerge as the potential products of alchemical procedures.

Biography

Ryota Matsumoto is a principal and founder of an award-winning interdisciplinary design office, Ryota Matsumoto Studio. He is an artist, designer and urban planner. Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan. He received a Master of Architecture degree from University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his studies at Architectural Association in London and Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art in early 90’s. Matsumoto has previously collaborated with a cofounder of the Metabolist Movement, Kisho Kurokawa, and with Arata Isozaki, Cesar Pelli, MIT Media Lab and Nihon Sekkei Inc. before establishing his office.
He presented his work for the 5th symposium of the Imaginaries of the Future at Cornell University in 2017 and currently serves as an adjunct lecturer of Transart institute, University of Plymouth.
His current interest gravitates around the embodiment of cultural possibilities in art, ecology, and urban topography.

http://www.ryotamatsumoto.com
https://www.facebook.com/ryota.matsumoto.718

Filed Under: Mixed Media Tagged With: Alegorical, Biology, Conceptual, Limited Color Palette, Lyrical, Psychological

Genres: Abstract Surrealism

Chris Boyko Abstract Surrealism

Last Modified January 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

Chris Boyko paints bizarre, strange, and unusual works. Each painting represents a hidden reality from the artist’s subconscious. These representations skirt the boundaries of surrealism and abstraction. Form and shape emerge from the paint. Nearly recognizable and figurative, yet remaining alien, beyond reach, ambiguous. Shapes or sculptures resemble figures or images found in wisps of smoke or clouds in the sky.

In Boyko’s worlds, weird alien figures (like goop) reach out and clasp each other. Are these are psychic, metaphorical structures? Crystalized memories? Microscopic organisms? Or alien landscapes? The viewer’s mind stumbles for answers… but finds weird ambiguity, and their own subconscious revelations reflected back at them.

 

Artist Statement

The subconscious is constructed like a giant web, which as a whole creates an individual. If one were to examine each individual piece, they would realize it’s composed of multiple ideas, memories, and feelings which are constantly shifting. It’s this shift within our subconscious that changes our perception of reality. It’s why each of us can respond differently to a multitude of situations.

Using automatic painting techniques, my mind enters a meditative state. As I begin to follow the strings of the subconscious web, the organic forms develop within the painting. One form leads to another, like a trail of thoughts. It’s as if my mind and the paint are in sync with each other. As I explore my own mind, gaining an understanding of myself; I’m also gaining an understanding of the forms.

boykoart.com
instagram.com/boykoart

Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Biology, Limited Color Palette, Lyrical, Painterly, Psychological

Genres: Abstract Surrealism

Nicola Samori Contemporary Painting

Last Modified September 19, 2016 Leave a Comment

 

Nicola Samori examines the theme of obsession from a number of different perspectives: that of the human body, religion, science, and the obsession of the artist with his own work. In his new paintings and sculptures he references art historical and biblical representations of ‘the healing of the possessed’.  Examples of such associations are Raphael’s “Transfiguration”, Jean-Martin Charcot, who “invented” the medical diagnosis of hysteria in his hospital in Paris in the late 19th Century, and Efisio Marini, an Italian scientist and physician who created rather unconventional sculptures from preserved corpses.

Via nicolasamori.com

Nicola Samori paints renaissance-style paintings with a contemporary twist: portions of the images are disfigured. Through melting, scratching, or other forms of destruction Samori degenerates what could otherwise be conceivably a Rembrandt or Caravaggio. I love this contemporary twist on representational art. Rather than the work being simply the world inside the paint– the surface paint itself becomes part of the story as it displays the ruin of the image– melting off the canvas or being smeared. The artist displays the highest technical skill in his oil paintings in the portions of the work that he doesn’t deface.

Excerpted from Juxtapoz:

The paintings of Italian artist, Nicola Samori, are full of sensuous energy. The thirty-five year old’s style is derived from the classical paintings of early renaissance masters. With the highest degree of precession, his figures emerge from the darkness of pictorial space into the light with dramatic realism.

Samori’s methodology is one that intertwines both violence and romance, which make his paintings all the more painful: He distorts them, smears them with his hand, disfigures hem with the palette knife, paints them over, or like a torturer removes the half-dry skin of the uppermost layer of paint with a scalpel. Yet, through this destructive deconstruction, his compositions have an eery sense of beauty and elegance.

Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Alegorical, Biology, Disintegration, Limited Color Palette, Lyrical, Portrait, Religion

Genres: Conceptual Art

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

surrealistic distored figures

We are an educational site whose mission is to support the visibility of contemporary surrealistic, visionary, fantastic artists in an increasingly eclectic art world. Read More.

Featured Artist: Vincent Fink

Artist Submissions

Submit Art

Featured Artist: Arabella Profer

Popular Products

Muppet of the End Times #83
The Other Place XII
The Garden III
The Garden II
The Garden
The Elders III

The Dispatch

Popular Posts

Kristin Kwan
Daniella Batsheva
Quick and Easy AI Video Art Tutorial for High Resolution Surreal AI Video Art
Serguei Borodouline
Make Stunning & Strange Artificial Intelligence (AI) Art [Beginners Guide]
Elzbieta Zdunek
Olga Koudi - Spiky Heads
Marisa S White: Certain These Clouds Go Somewhere

Visitor Poll:

- Step 1 of 2
A visitor poll.

Featured Artist: Marta Zubieta

Surreal Prints

  • Muppet of the End Times #83 From $60.00
  • The Other Place XII $65.00
  • The Garden III $65.00

Footer

About

Surrealism Today is an educational website established by artists, for artists. Our mission is to discover & promote the greatest surrealist and imaginative artists working today, and to help connect those artists to their fans, audiences, and collectors. If you're an artist, painter, collage, pop-surrealism and lowbrow, digital, visionary, mystical, occult or fantastic art, feel free to connect.

The Dispatch

Surreal Art direct to your inbox

For Artists

  • Submit Art
  • Submit a Video
  • Contact
  • Setting up your Artist Website
  • Request Content Takedown / Update
Submit Art
  • Privacy Policy
  • Shipping Policy
  • Refunds & Returns
  • Terms of Service
  • Sitemap
  • DMCA
  • Request Takedown
  • Contact

Website Design Copyright © 2022 Surrealism Today.
All Artwork Copyright © Their Respective Artists.

I'm searching for...

Popular searches:


Surreal
Painting

Surreal
Collage

Contemporary
Digital

Visionary
& Psychedelic

Lowbrow
& Pop-Surreal

Buy
Surreal Art
 

    0

    Your Cart is Empty

    0