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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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Valeriu Buev
Categories: PaintingThe 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
Categories: BookThemes: Alegorical, Conceptual, Figurative, Illustration, Juxtaposition, Mysticism, Painterly, PsychologicalWhen 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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Gadzooxtian
Categories: CollageBiography 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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James McCarthy
Categories: PaintingThemes: Alegorical, Juxtaposition, Landscape, Lyrical, Mysticism, Nature, Psychological, Space, TimeJames 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…