I wish I could find more about this artist. Micha Lobi paints wonderful modern surrealist images.
Yes I’m a sucker for Bosch inspired art.
Originally seen here.
Category: surreal
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Here is a fantastic little short film from Humble TV.
Conceived of and directed by Sam Stephens, Homunculus is a dark and twisted fable of spontaneous generation and untrammeled id.
Taking its title from the Latin word for “Little Human”, the piece is an associative mashup between the two concepts behind the word: The first being middle-age alchemical beliefs that “little men” could be spontaneous generated from dead or decaying matter. The second being Carl Jung’s usage as a personification of pure id. These ideas, combined with our love of Dutch still life’s “beautiful decay,” sowed the seeds for this unique little monster of a film.
I can’t wait to see what else these guys come up with!
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I don’t have much information about Belgian photographer Raoul Ubac, but I was just looking at a few of his pieces that I saved.
A favorite…
I would like to find more surreal photography created before the advent of digital editing software. Suggestions?
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Brian Smith makes fantastic surreal oil paintings, delightfully dark. The first two are from a Painting-a-Day series (done on 5X7″ panels, selling for $100 each).
And here are a few other recent works:
I love all the melting, pulling and swirling sensations in these paintings, as if the subjects and their surroundings are a single (often tortured) entity.
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Whenever my friend Damon shares a link, I know it’s going to be well worth checking out. I thank him for this twisted clip of straight-jacketed meat, ambling through the grocery store late at night…
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Ask me why I love surreal animal hybrids so much. Actually, don’t ask me…because I can’t really explain it.
Perhaps they remind me of dreams, where physical reality loses its tenacious grasp on perception. On some level, I am always aware of nature’s interconnectedness, but I enjoy seeing NEW and unexpected connections.
Linda R. Herzog loves to combine animals with machinery, household objects (and of course, other animals).
She frequently uses puffer fish in her paintings (one of my very favorite marine creatures).
But all of her surreal creations are lovely. She appropriately calls her work “wildlife fantasy.”
See more in her gallery.
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I can’t find as much information as I’d like on Michel Henricot, so I’ll just marvel at a few of his paintings for a while.
Henricot has a talent for musculature and anatomy, veiled by translucent skin and hazy lighting. This is not the stark work of textbooks. Nor is it merely the fantastical work of a gifted surrealist.
His work dances between the technical and the mystical until vastly divergent styles can no longer be separated. Henricot’s imagination is endowed with precision of form and function.
Here is a decent size gallery. So lovely…
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Roland Tamayo has a knack for creating marine-industrial hybrids and surreal fusions of nature, technology, man-made structures, and otherwordly atmospheres.
They are wonderful assemblages of subconscious puzzle pieces…
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I always enjoy when a painter chooses to depict the grotesque with a Renaissance sense of realism. Christian Rex van Minnen is one such artist.
His keyhole portraits are interesting little image conglomerates inside cutout figures.
Van Minnen’s other portraits take on an abstract, surreal quality.
These impossible chimeras embody royalty, pop culture and anatomically anomalous flora and fauna fused together.
Sea creature! Sweet, ambiguous sea creature…
He also does fantastically alien, fleshy landscapes.
Don’t try too hard to understand. Just enjoy.
See more on the artist site.
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It’s happening…it’s really happening. Mark Ryden is coming out with his first vinyl toy, slated for a mid-summer release from Necessaries Toy Foundation.
Ryden let his son Jasper choose the design; a three-eyed, bunny-eared, amorphous totem from the painting entitled YHWH.
The original painting:
First promo shot:
Even the box is predictably phenomenal:
I wish all of Ryden’s characters would be manifested in 3-D.
Check out more pictures and info at High Fructose.
The next new item is the collectors edition Tree Show book.
This hard-bound book includes over 130 color images of paintings, drawings, studies and sculptural works as well as a wealth of Mark’s inspirational reference materials. Each signed and numbered Special Edition book comes in a handmade clamshell box covered in a fine Japanese silk. The edition also comes with a collection of “Vintage Souvenirs” including a postcard set, commemorative pin, pennant, bookmark and pencil.
Sadly, though I’m absolutely salivating over this book, I can’t spare $350.00 for it. But what a fantastic item for serious collectors.
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