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Absolutely Awesome Surreal Paintings
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Very, very cool stuff. I am a major fan of Jacek Yerka and surreal painting. I was thinking about starting a thread on surreal paintings because of their relevance to the dream world.
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Universal Mind
Very, very cool stuff. I am a major fan of Jacek Yerka and surreal painting. I was thinking about starting a thread on surreal paintings because of their relevance to the dream world.
I edited it. Now you can add your favorites
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Omg those are amazing!!! :o Serious talent right there.
Does he have any in desktop wallpaper sizes?
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I love the first one.
Anything made by Escher is a classic.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Waterfall.jpg
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Alan Aldridge: There's a Place
(It is an illustration of John Lennon and his "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" line "Climb in the back of your head in the clouds and you're gone.")
http://www.mindbrix.co.uk/alanaldrid...PHANTA17_s.jpg
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Wow I think I have a new favorite artist. Where can I find higher res images of his work?
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Those are truly amazing! :)
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Aquanina
Wow I think I have a new favorite artist. Where can I find higher res images of his work?
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Mes Tarrant
Omg those are amazing!!! :o Serious talent right there.
Does he have any in desktop wallpaper sizes?
I DON'T KNOW! :cry: I've been looking for them. They're awesome, and I think that his collections on Amazon are gonna be the first coffee-table/art book that I'm ever gonna buy.
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These are rad. I love the very first one for some reason.
Edit - and the fourth one.
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kichu
These are rad. I love the very first one for some
Yeah, it's my favorite too. I think it has to do with something about the bonfires and the huge wooden structure :P.
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Elis D.
I DON'T KNOW! :cry: I've been looking for them. They're awesome, and I think that his collections on Amazon are gonna be the first coffee-table/art book that I'm ever gonna buy.
I have a book of a lot of Yerka's paintings, and the surreal writer Harlan Ellison has a very short surreal story written to illustrate each painting. It is called Mind Fields.
http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Fields-Fi...8884751&sr=8-1
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Universal Mind
Yea, I was looking at that one, I'll probably buy that and this one together.
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Those are really cool. I like the bed on the railroad tracks and the water-maze one with the swans. I liked them all but I stopped for a long time on those so I guess I like them better.
I remember Roger Dean, the Yes album cover guy--he had some really cool paintings. They don't seem to show up good on the computer tho; I looked at some and they looked better on the albums, it seems like.
Surreal art is the coolest kind because it is like photorealism of something that doesn't exist.
Thanks for posting this; I had never seen his stuff.
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I think we should keep the surreal art topic alive on this site because of its theme of dream imagery. These are videos of paintings by three of my favorite artists, and all three are surreal artists.
Rene Magritte:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0hAxUTGincM
Georgio De Chirico:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d_yh0rruFg4
Max Ernst:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pfs_Wh-a0Nk
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Moonbeam
Surreal art is the coolest kind because it is like photorealism of something that doesn't exist.
Once the camera was invented, Surrealism became the only valid form of realism (in painting) as far as I'm concerned.
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Let's immortalize this thread. I think maybe even Dream Views should have a Surreal Art forum. The paintings in this thread make me want to have lucid dreams where I go to the represented worlds.
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yay. :D
i love this thread, great pictures.
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Of the classics, Max Ernst has always been my favorite
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...rson/Ernst.jpg
If we're talking about pop surrealism, I've been really into Amy Sol
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...ant_cousin.jpg
And of course, Audrey Kawasaki
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...c-03-23x18.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1.../04-kotori.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...c-08-11x19.jpg
I'm involved with a group of surreal artists, here in the SF Bay Area if anyone is interested in joining us :D
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WOWOWW!!!!! those are amazing!!!!!!!
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Elis D.
Zdzisław Beksiński
Very dark and disturbed, but awesome.
As most of us Polaks are. :P
Awesome thread guys.
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Elis D.
Awesome bump UM, thanks!
Glad to do it. This is about the coolest thread on the whole site.
I just deleted the painting I posted in the bump because I looked back at everything and saw that I posted it twice. Woops.
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Though I like all surreal paintings, one that stood out for me was one of the classic Salvador Dali.
Though paintings rarely make me feel a certain way, this one did. It somehow made me feel a bit anxious. Like the nervous tickles you get in your stomach sometimes, with a slight feel of creepiness.
It's called "Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ersistence.jpg
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I absolutely LOVE Yerka he is my favorite artist, I have a couple of his books. Check this place out, it is a site dedicated to up and coming artists and old ones too. morpheusgallery.com Here are a few of my favorite ones though not all Yerka, it would be impossible for me to post all of my favorites since I have a huge folder pertaining just to Surreal Art.
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I love that Rob Gonsalves painting on the far right. He is one of the modern surrealists, and he has a unique and really brilliant style.
http://images.google.com/images?sour...-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://www.iacmusic.com/Uploads/1456...nsalves_03.jpg
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That picture absolutely captures the essence of dreaming.
Win.
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You all fail. Salvador Dali is the one and only true Surrealist. Proof, you say?
Look how people copy him.
http://science.kukuchew.com/wp-conte...-of-bikini.jpg
http://www.charnine.com/paintings/im...the_Clouds.jpg
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The second one is my favorite. :3
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tommo
You all fail. Salvador Dali is the one and only true Surrealist. Proof, you say?
Look how people copy him.
Salvador Dali was not even close to being the first surrealist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism
In addition to Breton, Aragon and Soupault the original Surrealists included Paul Éluard, Benjamin Péret, René Crevel, Robert Desnos, Jacques Baron, Max Morise, Marcel Noll, Pierre Naville, Roger Vitrac, Simone Breton, Gala Éluard, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Hans Arp, Georges Malkine, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Antonin Artaud, Raymond Queneau, André Masson, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy.
Later the idiosyncratic Salvador Dalí...
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Thanks for posting these! I've been looking for surreal/fantasy artwork for a long time!
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Universal Mind
Salvador Dali was not even close to being the first surrealist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism
In addition to Breton, Aragon and Soupault the original Surrealists included Paul Éluard, Benjamin Péret, René Crevel, Robert Desnos, Jacques Baron, Max Morise, Marcel Noll, Pierre Naville, Roger Vitrac, Simone Breton, Gala Éluard, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Hans Arp, Georges Malkine, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Antonin Artaud, Raymond Queneau, André Masson, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert and Yves Tanguy.
Later the idiosyncratic Salvador Dalí...
He was actually among the first. But that's not what I said. I said he was the only true one. I should clarify that, since I was drunk. What I should have said was, he blew surrealism into space. He made it. His work surpasses all others of the type. Of course this is open to debate. But that's my opinion and if you look at it, you will probably agree. But maybe not.
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My brain started to ache about half way through looking at those art pics while trying to understand and comprehend them. I love it though! I have got to get both of this guy's books. Looks like a mixture of MC Escher and Dali dipped in a psychadelic, science defying dream.
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You don't look at surrealism with the goal of understanding or comprehending it.
You view surrealism for it's beauty and mystery. You need to have a suspension of disbelief to grasp it.
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tommo
He was actually among the first. But that's not what I said. I said he was the only true one. I should clarify that, since I was drunk. What I should have said was, he blew surrealism into space. He made it. His work surpasses all others of the type. Of course this is open to debate. But that's my opinion and if you look at it, you will probably agree. But maybe not.
When I said Dali is "not even close to being the first surrealist", I meant in terms of people, not time. He is one of the firsts if you look at it from the standpoint of how many there have been since the 1920's, but he was relatively far away in terms of the first wave of surrealists. Dali did become part of the major bunch from the 30's that got so famous, but he was not one of the founders. It is sort of like how Jimi Hendrix was "among the first" classic rock musicians, but he was not a member of The Beatles, The Who, or The Rolling Stones. He got big a little bit later and joined the club. That is how Dali is with surrealist painters. Also, Hendrix is arguably the best classic rock guitarist just like Dali is arguably the best surrealist painter or surrealist anything. He is definitely the most famous and respected. I think he is phenomenal, but my personal opinion is that Magritte and Chirico are the best.
http://eaobjets.files.wordpress.com/...ists1930_1.jpg
European surrealists in 1930. Front row: Tristan Tzara, Salvador Dali, Paul Eulard, Max Ernst, Rene Crevel. Back row: Man Ray, Jean Arp, Yves Tanguy, Andre Breton
*Not all "surrealists" have been painters. Some, like Andre Breton, were writers who do not have any famous paintings. Some have been sculptors, etc.
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Elis D.
You don't look at surrealism with the goal of understanding or comprehending it.
You view surrealism for it's beauty and mystery. You need to have a suspension of disbelief to grasp it.
excuse me, I meant "grasping the concept"
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Ok then, UM, agree to disagree.
Elis D. I don't think that's it. You just don't try to understand what the painter was thinking. Coz it's pointless. But, for me at least, I always bring a meaning out of it.
Like for those first ones you posted, it would be a representation of how we are just inhabiting every possible nook and cranny of the world.
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exactly, if you can dream it, you can understand it.
Most of these paintings are extremely metaphorical, and philosophical too. You practically need those elements to create something as psychedelic as this.
You can't just look at these paintings for 5 seconds and move on to the next one without you're thought process "understanding" it from you're thought process and point of view.
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True. Otherwise they would be boring. If you draw a pretty flower, you and people who see it are gonna get bored of it quickly. However if you draw a pretty flower in between two mountains, you will be able to look at it for much longer.
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tommo
Ok then, UM, agree to disagree.
I thought I sort of agreed. :?
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Universal Mind
European surrealists in 1930. Front row: Tristan Tzara, Salvador Dali, Paul Eulard, Max Ernst, Rene Crevel. Back row: Man Ray, Jean Arp, Yves Tanguy, Andre Breton
Lol alpha males
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tommo
He was actually among the first. But that's not what I said. I said he was the only true one. I should clarify that, since I was drunk. What I should have said was, he blew surrealism into space. He made it. His work surpasses all others of the type. Of course this is open to debate. But that's my opinion and if you look at it, you will probably agree. But maybe not.
I think the only reason why most people think Dali exemplifies surrealism is because he was just such a surreal person. His artwork is matched by Ernst's and Duchamp's, etc. but he exploded into society as a character almost completely seperate from his work.
Another factor that might influence you is Dali's realist influences. He was an excellent realist, so his surrealism is that more unsettling.
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but my personal opinion is that Magritte and Chirico are the best.
That's what I disagree with lol. Sorry, should have quoted.
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Xaqaria
I think the only reason why most people think Dali exemplifies surrealism is because he was just such a surreal person. His artwork is matched by Ernst's and Duchamp's, etc. but he exploded into society as a character almost completely seperate from his work.
Another factor that might influence you is Dali's realist influences. He was an excellent realist, so his surrealism is that more unsettling.
I think that could have, part, to do with it.
His paintings actually looked like they could be real as well.
When you looks at say, Rene Magritte, just off the top of my head, the painting with the apple the size of the whole room; I just think 'yeah and?.... so what?'. Dali has amazing landscapes and many meanings within each painting.
Anyway, kind of digressing here, but I just looked up Rene Magritte again because I had only really seen his paintings when studying Surrealism in class, so I just wanted to make sure I wasn't making dumb points lol, but anyway, I saw this painting.
http://www.lacoctelera.com/myfiles/m...gritte0011.jpg
and I'd never seen this before but I had thought of the same sort of image in my head before. I started painting it a while ago but it never got finished. It's interesting because we probably thought of them for totally different reasons.
This is why Surrealism in general is so good. With most other art you can only get a general idea of what the artist was trying to convey and there isn't much more to it. With Surrealism you can get many meanings because you sort of have to dig in to your subconscious to figure it out.
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I remember seeing a picture once, of a farm kind of place. There was a living tractor and the roof of the farm house just turned into a field into the horizon. I believe the artist who made it was called something with Y, but from what I could find, it was not Jacek Yerka.
edit: Actually kinda like this http://bp3.blogger.com/_oMi1vwbM3cw/...1+sandhuts.jpg but from a different angel, and with a living tractor :P
edit2: I found it! http://lh5.ggpht.com/_nLaOYmgImPo/R8...ictor+1992.jpg
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This is one of my favorite pictures I found off of Deviant Art. Not sure this constitutes as surreal art, so I'll let you be the judge.
http://fc69.deviantart.com/fs32/p/20...48caebf44c.jpg
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There are some really awesome paintings here! Keep them coming!
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http://kujok.dk/billeder/Rene%20Magr...herapeute.jpeg
Le Therapeute by Rene Magritte (English title: The Healer)
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These are all SOOO awesome! im an art geek, and i love this kinda stuff. so im subscribing to the thread. i might even post some i find someday. keep it coming!
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http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/upl...aldrdige-1.jpg
Yellow Submarine by Alan Aldridge, from The Beatles: Illustrated Lyrics
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Elis: http://www.zuzafun.com/surreal-paintings-of-jacek-yerka
:wink:
By jason77 on DeviantArt:
http://fc94.deviantart.com/fs7/f/200...by_jason77.jpg
By Iron Maiden cover artist Derek Riggs:
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/7375/artfutureal2.jpg
By surrealistic artist Joseph Cusimano:
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/512...ticjourney.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/658...aginationt.jpg
Cusimano’s work is nigh impossible to find, I had to upload those images to Imageshack
myself. (I also uploaded Futureal after “resizing” because it was way too big.)
Hope you guys enjoy! :goodjob2:
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try some of the stuff in the Erowid visionary arts vault
Also, anything by Alex Gray. Surreal in a different sort of way, but very good nonetheless
like this
http://imgs.sfgate.com/g/pictures/20...alexgrey04.jpg
this
http://www.posters57.com/images/cate.../Alex_Gray.jpg
and JamesLD's avatar :P
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Love it.
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Yea, the art for some of Tool's album is really good. Kinda weird though.
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This thread is AMAZING. :banana:
Thanks to the OP for starting it. :bowdown:
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This thread is AMAZING. :banana:
Thanks to the OP for starting it. :bowdown:
Bump seconded--I just found this thread about a month ago and it's incredible.
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Heh, second one is cool. :D
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I love surreal art. My wallpaper has changed.
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I want to go to these places.
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http://neosurrealism.artdigitaldesig...painting01.jpg
1000 points to whoever can tell me who painted that. I found it on a forum I am not a member of, and the guy who posted it didn't say who the artist is. I am thinking about joining the site just so I can send that guy a message and find out. If you search under "surrealism" on Google Images, you will see it on the first page, at least as of now. It looks like a cross between a Yerka and a Magritte.
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That would be Arnau Alemany :)
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tommo
That would be Arnau Alemany :)
Damn, nice going! Never heard of him until I read your post. I just looked up that painting and saw a bunch of his others, and I have a new artist to be a big fan of. Thanks! 1000 points for you.
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yay!:banana:
hehe
Yeah he does have a unique style for sure.
