PAINTERS

The surrealist painters, even in Australia, they express the energy and enthusiasm of expressive vitality. Among these artists, skilled in combining sublime painting with the enthusiasm, we also wanted to collect some of their creative suggestions. Not always what you perceive corresponds to what you see. Observing what they paint, you will never forget this basic concept. Four Australian surrealist …

JIM TSINGANOS 1/4 – His characters, come in various sizes, but most of his images are based in the real world. His illustrations distantly remind of Goncalo Viana’s work (for their rich, vivid colours). Surrealist, Conceptual painter and Illustrator. http://www.tsinganos.com/ He is Australian, with more than 25 years of editorial experience in illustration and collaborations with Time, Penguin Books, Amnesty …

SALVADOR DALI’ 1/4 – He was born on May day, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age, he was encouraged to practice his art. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began interacting with many artists (such as Picasso, Magritte and Miró). This Spanish artist and Surrealist icon, is perhaps best known for his painting of melting clocks, “The …

In London, there is the Museum of Empathy http://www.empathymuseum.com/ the brainchild of British philosopher Krznaric, with the aim of creating a space of experience and sharing. Almost like putting in the shoes of others. Obviously, entering a museum full of famous paintings, you can also use the shoes (understood as artistic sensibility), of an famous painter. The creative life styles, …

GEORGE TOOKER 1/4 – His works often reveal eerie situations, in a mechanical and hostile society. He was born in an August day, in Brooklyn (where he spent the first six years of his life). He took art lessons as a child, and spent much of his young adult life at the Fogg Art Museum. He graduated from Harvard University …

OWEN SMITH 1/4 – His influences come from the walls paintings artists of the 1930s. While living in New York, he was commission to design a set of mosaic murals – permanently installed in a New York Subway Station at 36th Street Brooklyn – as a celebration of the working people who have made the subway what it is today, …