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List of surrealist artists (with paintings), both modern and some classics. By clicking on the link you can get to an article where you can see more paintings and talk in detail about the artist.

Surrealist artists. Gallery. List.

Here are collected all the surrealists on my site. Pictures are clickable, if you move the mouse pointer over the picture, the name will appear, and by clicking on the picture, you will be taken to an article with the artist. After the gallery comes a list of artists with brief description, a picture of each artist and, again, a link to the article. Who is more comfortable in short.

Surrealist artists. Salvador Dali.

There is no need to introduce him. What is surrealism without Salvador Dali? On Salvador, I have a whole series of articles on the site - see the heading Salvador Dali in the right column of the site. Below are the most popular articles.

Surrealist artists. Rene Magritte.

This is the second pillar on the foundation of which modern surrealism rests. The exact opposite of Salvador, he nevertheless became one of the most recognizable Surrealist artists of all time. Magritte's paintings are like riddles with a strange sense of humor, in contrast to the violent flow of Dali's subconscious desires and phobias. What is the picture “Son of Man” and “treachery of images” (the famous “this is not a pipe”) worth.

Contemporary surrealist artists. Alexey Yezhov.

Alexei Yezhov is a Russian surrealist who paints in the style of the Dutch masters. It kind of reminds me of Bosch. Likes to draw mechanized animals. Favorite motifs are fish and people in medieval surroundings.

Surrealist artists of our time. Jacek Yerka

Jacek Yerka is a Polish master who also took a lot from the technique of Dutch artists. Works in the genre of surreal illustration. Favorite motives are the revival of mechanisms (like a dinosaur alarm clock) and nature. Distinguished by a passion for meticulous detail and overloaded composition in his work.

Surrealist artists. Yuri Laptev.

Laptev is an artist from the Crimea. Works in a rather uncharacteristic watercolor technique for surrealists. Like Yerka, Laptev is both a surrealist and an illustrator rolled into one. Despite the obvious surrealism of the works, one can find images familiar to all "born in the USSR".

Surrealist artists. Johnson Tsang.

Tsang is a surrealist sculptor from Hong Kong. A lover of connecting the living with the inanimate or a person with a plant. Specializes in ceramics and stainless steel casting. Many of his creations adorn Hong Kong airports.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

Giuseppe is not exactly a surrealist, but close as anyone. It is noteworthy that this artist lived and worked long before Salvador Dali and even Giorgio de Chirico. On the net, people fell in love with his portraits of vegetables. I have an opinion that purely technically he is no less a surrealist than the modern surrealists, because the only thing that distinguishes him from the "real" surrealists is the lack of an appropriate ideology. Artistic technique and the originality is amazing. I have no doubt that his grotesque paintings enjoyed considerable success with the aristocrats.

Surreal paintings by Vasco Taszkowski.

This is one of my favorite artists. He is little known to the masses, but in vain. Born in Yugoslavia. His paintings are amazing in their epicness. In addition, he is one of the few artists who can boast of a bright personality. Only a person who is extremely far from art can confuse his paintings with, say, Salvador. Favorite motifs are horses and the environment.

Sur deco by Boris Indrikov.

Indrikov is a Russian surrealist artist who works at the intersection of art nouveau, surrealism and fantastic realism. His paintings look surreal, but at the same time delicate and decorative. Also one of my favorite artists. This looks good in the museum and it’s nice to hang on the wall, and it looks beautiful on the page of the book.

Russian surrealist artist Vladimir Kush.

Vladimir Kush is another one surrealist artist. Works in a style similar to Salvador Dali. Nevertheless, a trained eye will accurately determine where whose picture is. Pretty nice work too. So pleasant and contemplative. Not as strong as Vasco, more of a commercial artist. Like Indrikov, even those who do not particularly like surrealism will like it. Favorite motifs are butterflies.

Surrealist artists. Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk.

Ivan Marchuk is one of the most famous surrealist artists in Ukraine. However, Marchuk works not only in the style of surrealism, but also paints quite realistic landscapes for himself. The characteristic technique of the artist is the use of lines overlapping each other, which visually gives the effect of mixing colors (a technique somewhat similar to pointillists).

Surrealist artists. Watercolor surrealism by Jonathan Wolstenholme.

Jonathan Wolstenholme is a watercolorist known to me for a series of surreal illustrations that I would call "a life of great books". Favorite motives are books (your captain is obvious).

Surrealism (French surrealisme - super-realism) is a trend in literature and art of the twentieth century that developed in the 1920s. Originating in France on the initiative of the writer A. Breton, surrealism soon became an international trend. Surrealists believed that creative energy comes from the subconscious, which manifests itself during sleep, hypnosis, delirium, sudden insights, automatic actions (random wandering of a pencil on paper and other variations).

Surrealism in painting developed in two directions. Some artists introduced the unconscious into the process of creating paintings, in which free-flowing images predominated, arbitrary forms turning into abstraction (Max Ernst, Troy Camille Clovis, A. Mason, Miro, Jean Arp). Another direction, which was headed by Salvador Dali, was based on the illusory accuracy of reproducing an unreal image that arises in the subconscious. His paintings are distinguished by a careful manner of writing, accurate transmission of chiaroscuro, perspective, which is typical for academic painting. The viewer, succumbing to the persuasiveness of illusory painting, is drawn into a labyrinth of deceptions and unsolvable mysteries: solid objects spread, dense objects become transparent, incompatible objects twist and turn inside out, massive volumes become weightless, and all this creates an image that is impossible in reality.

Common features of surrealist art are fantasy of the absurd, alogism, paradoxical combinations of forms, visual instability, and variability of images. The main goal of the surrealists was through the unconscious to rise above the limitations of both the material and the ideal world, to continue rebellion against the emasculated spiritual values ​​of bourgeois civilization. The artists of this trend wanted to create on their canvases a reality that did not reflect the reality suggested by the subconscious, but in practice this sometimes resulted in the creation of pathologically repulsive images, eclecticism and kitsch. Certain interesting finds of the Surrealists were used in the commercial areas of decorative art, for example, optical illusions, allowing you to see two in one picture. various images or plot, depending on the direction of view. At the same time, artists turned to imitating the features of primitive art, the creativity of children and the mentally ill.

For all their programmatic predestination, the works of the surrealists evoke the most complex associations. They can simultaneously be identified in our perception with both evil and good. Frightening visions and idyllic dreams, violence and humility, despair and faith - these feelings in various versions appear in the works of the surrealists, actively influencing the viewer. With all the absurdity and even a certain amusingness of some works of surrealism, they are able to stimulate the mind, awaken the associative imagination.

Surrealism was a controversial artistic phenomenon, which largely explains the wide orbit of its distribution. Many seeking artists, who subsequently abandoned surrealist views, went through him (P. Picasso, P. Klee, and others). The poets F. Lorca, P. Neruda, the Spanish director L. Bunuel, who made surrealistic films, adjoined surrealism. The sophisticated technique of connecting the incompatible and the self-irony and humor that appeared in late surrealism allowed him to organically merge into the poetics of modern postmodernism.

Reference and biographical data of the Small Bay Planet Art Gallery are prepared on the basis of materials from the History of Foreign Art (edited by M.T. Kuzmina, N.L. Maltseva), the Artistic Encyclopedia of Foreign Classical Art, and the Great Russian Encyclopedia.

Friday, September 15, 2017

Surrealism(from the French surrealisme - "superrealism") - a trend in painting, cinema, literature of the 20th century, which developed in France in the 1920s. The term "surrealism" belongs to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. In the late 1910s, he managed to gather around him associates in the person of Andre Breton, Philippe Soupault, Louis Aragon, Jean Cocteau - young poets who called themselves surrealists. In 1917, Apollinaire staged his "surrealist drama" Les mamelles de Tiresias (Les mamelles de Tiresias). But the founder of surrealism is the French writer and poet Andre Breton, who in 1924 published the first "Manifesto of Surrealism", where he explains the essence of the surrealist movement.

What characterizes surrealism? What is its peculiarity and difference from other directions? Let's try to figure it out by looking at ⇩

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1. The influence of Bergson's philosophy and Freud's teachings.
It was under the influence of these scientists that the vision of surrealist artists was formed.
According to Bergson, a person is able to comprehend the world, the super-real, if he allows intuition to take precedence over reason, logic. A person becomes real, without complexes and prejudices, if he manages to free himself from the control of the mind. Only in this way is “pure” art born, capable of reflecting the essence of being, which is hidden behind the barrier of reason. Freud's contribution is that he defined the subconscious as a phenomenon that determines the thoughts and behavior of a person. Based on his theory, dreams are nothing more than impressions, experiences, images, thoughts, hidden desires, memories that have been forced out by consciousness into the “storehouse” of the subconscious, where they are constantly located as unconscious complexes.
Thus, the surrealists tried to penetrate as deeply as possible into the subconscious, providing ↯

2. Avoidance of reality, rejection of logic, traditional worldview, differentiation of things into good and bad, false and truthful, beautiful and ugly.
To do this, they used the following methods:

3. Imitation of the features of primitive art, the creativity of children, the mentally ill. Image of dreams, hallucinations.
Surrealists believed that it was necessary to get away from reality and allow free association, "creative madness" to break out. To penetrate into the realm of the subconscious, artists resorted to hypnosis, alcohol, and drugs. Salvador Dali resorted to the method of capturing dreams immediately after waking up: a canvas with paints was always “on duty” near his bed, plus he often fell asleep on a chair with a key in his hand, which later fell and woke up the painter, and Dali quickly tried to portray what he had dreamed of.
From here, in their paintings one can observe ↯

4. A combination of real and fictional. Changing the shapes and sizes of objects: heavy forms become weightless, solid objects spread, and small ones become unrealistically huge.
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5. Optical illusions- dual pictures containing within themselves elements that are not immediately noticeable. At first glance at a surrealistic picture, thoughts may arise about the absurdity of the work - a lot of chaotic, unrelated elements, but ↯

6. Meaning - in the symbolism of images. Looking at the works of the surrealists, the viewer tries to understand them, to put the images together and see at least some meaning. And he [the viewer] sees - not necessarily the one that the artist laid down, but his own, based on his worldview and life experience.
This is how the surrealists try to achieve their main goal - ↯

7. - Lead the viewer to reasoning.
Whether they succeeded or not, you can understand for yourself by getting acquainted with the work of the most famous surrealists.

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A distinctive feature of surrealism is the use of paradoxical combinations of forms and illusions.

It skillfully combines dream and reality, real and fictional. Surrealist artists were inspired by the idea - the revolution of their own consciousness.

And art acted, in their opinion, as a tool for this.

A mixture of philosophical teachings is a characteristic feature of the theory of surrealism. Intuition (according to the philosopher Henri Bergson) is the only means of knowing the truth, and art appears on this idea, where the reality surrounding us is perceived in the form of an “individual vision”

, not as a logical concept. The very process of creativity has a mystical, irrational character. The then fashionable doctrine of psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud had a great influence on the aesthetics of the surrealists.

In 1917, the French poet Guillaume Apolner first mentioned the concept of "surrealism". But only in 1924, surrealism receives a theoretical justification in the "First Manifesto", which was written by Andre Breton.

Surrealist artists

Salvador Dali, Alberto Giacometti, Andre Masson, Arshile Gorky, Balthus, Vangel Naumowski, Wifredo Lahm, Wolfgang Paalen, Giorgio de Chirico, Jacques Erol, Jean Arp, Joan Miro, Georges Papazov, Zdzislaw Beksiński, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Man Ray , Maurits Cornelis Escher, Michael Sowa, Octavio Ocampo, Paul Klee, Paul Delvaux, Raul Yubak, Remedios Varo, Rene Magritte, Francis Picabia, Frida Kahlo, Hedda Stern, Jorge Castillo, Ernst Fuchs, Jacek Yerka.

According to the theory of surrealism, the true human essence and the universe surrounding it can reflect "only intuitive, unconscious feelings"

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Hallucinations, delusions, dreams - this is what, according to the surrealists, can be combined with reality, while obtaining absolute reality - super-reality.

One of the main techniques of the Surrealists' creativity is the "connection of the unconnected", the convergence of images and images that are alien to each other. In surrealism, the symbolism of images and the magical meanings of things have great meaning.

Surrealism unites progressive, searching youth, who strive for transformations in society. Hated reality recedes from the desire to have complete freedom of creativity and thought.

It seemed to many that surrealism would bridge the gap between society and the artist, elevating the latter above reality.

By the 70s of the 20th century, surrealism is becoming a thing of the past, leaving us a legacy of its principles, which are still relevant today. Surrealism in our time has deeply penetrated into scenography, design, and is reflected in many avant-garde art trends.

Modern surrealism has changed to a high degree. Only the outer side remains of it - a phantasmagoria.

In short, the rules of the work of the surrealists come down to:

Relax and let go of your thoughts.

Trust your subconscious and look at the images that it sends you.
Now take a piece of paper and write down everything you see in this way.

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