Surrealism

Adults-Only Playgrounds

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Symbolism, Video, Amy Bessone, Lisa Yuskavage, Haunch of Venison, Sculpture, Slideshow, Surrealism, James Ensor, Odilon Redon, Marlene Mocquet, Painting, Female Artists, Arts News

French painter Marlene Mocquet brings the fanciful spirit of the childhood imagination to an adult psychological meltdown. The result is an aesthetica...

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Hellish Imagery From The Middle Ages

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Manuscript, Middle Ages, Religious Art, Hieronymus Bosch, Surrealism, Los Angeles Art, Slideexpand, Heaven and Hell, The Getty Center, Os Gemeos, Religion, Video, Inferno, Getty, Hell, Heaven, Arts News

While today the word "hell" is often used in situations involving long lines and a lack of caffeine, in the Middle Ages hell was darker, hotter and ha...

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60 Years Of Light

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Alex Katz, Video, Kemper Museum, Lois Dodd, Rene Magritte, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Painting, Female Artists, Paul Cezanne, Slideexpand, Henri Matisse, Arts News

Lois Dodd is not interested in telling stories. Just as snapshots transport us back to forgotten feelings, physical states, and even temperatures, so ...

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The Early Mapplethorpe?

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Decadence, Homosexual, Cindy Sherman, Surrealism, Slideexpand, Gender, Symbolist, Andres Serrano, Homoerotic, F. Holland Day, Video, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jesus, Alfred Stieglitz, Arts News

Today many, if not most, artist-photographers incorporate issues of theater, sexuality and the constructed self into their work. From Cindy Sherman's ...

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Bringing Surrealism To Cannes

AP | By JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Subconscious, Nathalia Acevedo, Surrealism, Adolfo Jimenez Castro, Carlos Reygadas, Carlos Reygadas Cannes, Cannes, Luis Bunuel, Video. Cannes Film Festival, Post-Tenebras-Lux, Video, Arts News

CANNES, France -- As the credits rolled on the first Cannes Film Festival screening of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' new film, someone in the audi...

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Family Secrets Get Surreal

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Jan Van Eyck, Glass Garage Gallery, Video, Fairy Tales, Renaissance Painting, Flemish Painting, Kentucky, Surrealism, Margo Selski, Slideexpand, Female Artists, Painting, Arts News

Margo Selski's paintings -- with ball gowns made of eyes, braids of hair with agency of their own and the pointiest feet you've ever seen -- look like...

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Happy Birthday Salvador Dali!

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Video, Arts News, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, The Persistence of Memory, Surrealism, Joan Miro, Art Birthday, Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Arts News

Today is the birthday of everyone's favorite mustachioed surrealist painter, Salvador Dali. The eccentric Spaniard, who was a lover of all things gild...

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Photos Made From Bees And Trees

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Photography, Yossi Milo, Video, Bees, New York Art Exhibitions, Trees and Honeybees, New Photography, Nature, Matthew Brandt, Contemporary Art, Surrealism, Slideexpand, Lakes, Arts News

While photography normally maintains a distance between the representation and the thing itself, Matthew Brandt's works submerge his message in his me...

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Ryan McGinley's Animal Instincts

Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Photography, New York Art Exhibitions, Video, Man Ray, Ryan Mcginley Team Gallery, Team Gallery, Ryan McGinley, Surrealism, Animals, Slideexpand, Nsfw, Naitonal Geographic, Photography Exhibition, Arts News

Remember when unabashed nudity in photography used to shock us? In Ryan McGinley's latest photography exhibition entitled, "Animals," nude species sha...

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Bound in Wonderland

Kim Alexandriuk | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Lacma, Frida Kahlo, Women, Museum, Gertrude Abercrombie, Exhibit, Rosa Rolanda, Dorothea Tanning, Art, Surrealism, Los Angeles, In Wonderland, Leonora Carrington, Los Angeles News

This week marks the end of the In Wonderland exhibit at LACMA, a three-month-long journey into the subconscious of female surrealist artists.

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Ethan Murrow's 'Narcissistic Excess' Is Playful And Strange

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Edward Murrow, Performance Piece, Charlie Chaplin, Venice Art, Obsolete Gallery, Rene Magritte, Surrealism, Los Angeles Art, Slidepollajax, Barnum and Bailey, Ethan Murrow, Video, Arts News

"All of my characters tend to end in failure," Ethan Murrow once admitted to The Seattle Times. The artist's large graphite drawings are rendered with...

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Domenico Gnoli's Rarely Seen Paintings Now On View

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Italian Renaissance, Domenico Gnoli, Luxembourg & Dayan, Slidewide, Surrealism, Italian Art, Mc Escher, Rene Magritte, Painting, New York Exhibition, Fresco, Video, Arts News

There is an undeniable magic to Italian Renaissance paintings, where fabric ripples with a supernatural grace, and hair cascades with both abandon and...

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Fifty Shades Of Grey Zones

Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Fifty Shades of Grey, Robert Minervini, Los Angeles Art Exhibitions, Video, Bruce Cohen, Still Life, Surrealism, Rene Magritte, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Bruce Cohen's still lifes combine an intensely heightened perception with nebulous subject matter. His painted objects are imbued with a sense of urge...

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Which Famous Surrealist Made Commercial Posters On The Side?

Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Video, Renee Magritte Posters, Art Deco, Advertisements, Retro Advertisements, Surrealism, Rene Magritte, Magritte, Slidepollajax, Swann Auction Galleries, Arts News

We don't know about you, but when we think of Rene Magritte we imagine bowler hats, mysterious clouds and cryptic green apples. We certainly do not th...

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Katharina Wulff's Whimsical Daydreams

Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Sylvia Fein, Video, Morocco, New Works Sf Moma, Katharina Wulff, Slidepollajax, Paul Gauguin, Surrealism, Odilon Redon, Female Artists, San Francisco Art, Contemporary Painting, Berlin, Arts News

Katharina Wulff's paintings are as mysterious in their subject matter as they are in their varied influences. Her visual stories display mysterious ch...

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Dali's Big Sale At Sotheby's

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Printemps Necrophilique, Art Auction, Video, Art Value, Salvador Dali Auction, Art and Money, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Surrealism, Sotheby's, Max Ernst, Arts News

Salvador Dali's surrealist dreamscapes inspired the imaginations of millions; now it looks like the artist's wildest dreams are about to become a real...

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Mighty Movie Podcast: Guy Maddin on Keyhole

Dan Persons | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Jason Patric, Regret, Paranormal, Black and White, Black and White Photography, Isabella Rossellini, George Toles, Ghosts, Surrealism, Keyhole, Guy Maddin, Gangsters, Kevin McDonald, Udo Kier, Fantasy, Entertainment News

This gangster is haunted, literally. Keyhole begins with an inversion -- a group of criminals have to fight their way past a police barricade into a house -- and only gets stranger from there.

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Happy Birthday, Max Ernst!

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Painters, Dada, Video, Painter, Germany, German Art, Sculptor, Marcel Duchamp, Contemporary Art, Abstract Expressionism, Wwi, Surrealism, Max Ernst, Dada Movement, Arts News

Happy Birthday to one of our favorite surrealists, Max Ernst. Ernst's attitude towards authority was affected early on by his strict, religious father...

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10 Alter-Egos Of Famous Artists

flavorwire.com | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Lucy Schwob, Surrealism, Andy Kaufman, Alter-Egos, Frida Kahlo, Max Ernst, Claude-Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Arts News

Attention and behold: Marcel Duchamp... as a lady! Or, not exactly. This is more than just a giddy Surrealist in a pretty hat and a little rouge. This...

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Melting Minimalism

Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Brazilian Artists, Douglas Wheeler, Sean Kelly Gallery, Switch Iran Do Espirito Santo, Iran Do Espirito Santo, Brazilian Art, Robert Irwin, Surrealism, Switch, Sean Kelly New York, New York Exhibitions, Slidepollajax, Minimalism, Arts News

Iran Do Espirito Santo is a Brazilian artist whose visual puzzles are easy to perceive but impossible to decipher. His new exhibition "Switch" feature...

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Ed Ruscha + Jack Kerouac = Poetic Wandering

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: On the Road, Ed Ruscha on the Road, Jack Kerouac, Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art, Ed Ruscha Denver, Ed Ruscha, Beat Poetry, Beat Generation, Surrealism, Slidepollajax, Allen Ginsberg, Denver Art Museum, Arts News

Ed Ruscha's paintings look simple, which is what makes their complexity so confounding. Like a short poem, you can enjoy a Ruscha work in a matter of ...

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Redon's Beautiful Delirium

Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Fundacion Mapfre, Slidewide, Art Meets Science, Odilon Redon Madrid, Freud, Surrealism, Dream, Redon Exhibition, UK Arts, Symbolist, Video, Paris 1890's, Pastels, Odilon Redon, Arts News

Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon, made visible the ambiguous realm between sleep and waking. The French symbolist painter blurred...

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Will Ryman's Topsy-Turvy World

Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Surreal Sculpture, Absurdism, Video, Edgar Allen Poe, Paul Kasmin, Absurdist Philosophy, Ryman, Paul Kasmin New York, Surrealism, Will Ryman Everyone and No One, The Raven, Slidepollajax, Will Ryman, Poe the Raven, Arts News

Will Ryman is known for his hyper-enlarged sculptures which use manipulate expectations of size and materials to create absurd spaces. The Manhatt...

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Banal Is The New Bizarre

Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Magical Realism, Sam Taylor-Wood, Robert Gober, Surrealism, Alex Hay, Lifelike, Internet, Video, Charles Ray, Walker Art, Vija Celmins, Keith Edmier, Duchamp, Lifelike Walker Art, Fischli and Weiss, Slidepollajax, Ai Weiwei, Kaz Oshiro, Arts News

A leisurely stroll around the internet will result in an overload of sex, gore, crazies and talented animals all in the same 5 minute video. And the s...

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Louise Bourgeois: The Return Of The Repressed

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Dream Analysis, Return of the Repressed, Maman, Louise Bourgeois Psychoanalysis, Feminist, Confessional Art, Louise Bourgeois, Surrealism, Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis, UK Arts, Minimalism, Video, Female Artists, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Louise Bourgeois created haunting sculptural forms inspired by femininity and domesticity. But through her touch, these 'soft' subject matters morph i...

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