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The fantastic scenarios of Erik Johansson The intellectual properties of the images that appear on this blog correspond to their authors, therefore, to appreciate the originality of the photographer we want to present to you, we recommend you go to the individual reference links. The images that accompany this post, however, were conceived by us to develop the identical surrealist …

The surprise of finding a lion in an accordion Musical surrealism is based on the exploration of the unconscious, dreams and the irrational, through the use of unexpected, contrasting and provocative images and sounds. Among the music composers who have had relationships with surrealism and who have tried to create dreamlike, alienating and suggestive atmospheres, we cannot fail to mention …

A continuous source of inspiration for stylists Surrealist fashion https://www.lottievjackson.com/surrealism-and-fashion, favors unexpected and stimulating shapes and silhouettes, square shoulders, pronounced hips or narrow waists. A trend towards elegance still appreciated today, it is based on the 20th century artistic movement of the same name. Designers inspired by it continue to find new ways to explore the possibilities of clothing, through …

A simple language that explores complex themes Surrealism is based on the idea that art must express the profound reality of the unconscious, freeing the mind from any rational conditioning. Poets also try to achieve this goal, and they achieve it through the use of stream of consciousness, psychic automatism and free imagination. Their verses are characterized by bizarre images …

Think deeply, to understand the concept behind a surreal painting Pictorial surrealism https://www.suzinassif.com/different-ways-to-create-surreal-art/, an artistic movement born in Paris in the 1920s, sought to explore the human unconscious and represent the images found there. Surrealist artists used a variety of techniques to create their works, including automatism, collage and frottage. Surrealist works, characterized by surreal images, defy logic and reason, …

A surrealist painter associated with the postwar avant-garde art movement in Japan Although he painted hundreds of canvases, he avoided seeking commercial success, surviving economically as an artist thanks to his wife’s beautician earnings. In 1953, he joined many young artists to form the Young Artists’ Alliance art cooperative, which for three years held exhibitions and published a magazine entitled …

Writer and painter, with five years in prison For Sofia Bassi http://www.artnet.com/artists/sof%C3%ADa-bassi/, art was an elixir, a regenerating vevanda that she would have liked to drink forever. For some art critic of her her kind of work was akin to some form of magical impression, however, for many people, she is a surrealist painter, even in painting landscapes representing lost …

A surrealist, disturbing paradoxes and hallucinating qualities Among the many schools she attended, also Foxcroft School https://www.foxcroft.org/, in Virginia. In her paintings, you sometimes find a jumble of objects in the foreground contrasted by others in the distance. Her semi abstract paintings, permeated with a sense of stillness, took motifs and styles from both de Chirico and other surrealist painters, …

Pictorial artifacts that humanize an artist Feeaturing 128 paintings and drawings, until April 2000 – and fifty years after presenting its first Jean Philippe Dallaire exhibition – the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts https://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2000/03/02/26296.html showed its second retrospective of that remarkably talented artist and about his contribution to Canadian art history. Set up chronologically according to Discoveries of youth, The …

Where creativity becomes innovation, if transformed into reality Journey into the creativity of France https://nz.ambafrance.org/Creativity-A-quintessentially-french-trait, where être means to be and where it indicates nationality and profession, but also where it describes people and things. One can be French by descent or by the battles waged, yet, already in conceiving a certain type of sail or handbag; in both cases, …