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kaniz
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Re: Surreal Art Gallery [Re: kaniz]
#6347227 - 12/08/06 07:38 AM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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AlteredAgain
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Re: Surreal Art Gallery [Re: kaniz]
#6348336 - 12/08/06 03:28 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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those are cool! especially the second one.
here's some Dali, how could i forget!
^^ Dionysus Spitting the Complete Image of Cadaqués on the Tip of the Tongue of a Three-Storied Gaudinian Woman
great works.
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kaniz
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Think I spent a good 2 hours staring at the 2nd one while on LSD, it was like I was being shown a life story of an ancient warrior. It went beyond 'pretty visuals', to stories drenched in meaning.
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thatiAM
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Wow - I really like the one of the woman made of balls in your latest post.
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AlteredAgain
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Re: Surreal Art Gallery [Re: thatiAM]
#6352108 - 12/09/06 07:16 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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here are two more with the sphere theme, plus a couple more others of his 1950 works.
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AlteredAgain
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this image is surprisingly similar to a mushroom experience i had earlier this spring.
i can totally identify with this, phenomenal
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TheQueen
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Alex Grey
H.R. Geiger
Lady Freda Harris
Same Sculpture from three different positions
Sean Conroy
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kaniz
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Re: Surreal Art Gallery [Re: TheQueen]
#6355766 - 12/10/06 08:48 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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Alma Rumball
The thing I like about her work, is the honesty behind it. She wasn't out to create 'surreal' art, or trippy-art. She was this lady, devout christian - very much kept to her own world, and she never even knew what she was really drawing. A bit of a bio on her (watched a documentry on her a few days ago).
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When she became ill as a young woman, she was sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium for four months. She was deeply affected by the experience. She lived in Toronto for a while but after her vision during the 1950's she returned to Huntville. She became reclusive and unsociable and withdrew from life. Alma's automatic painting began in 1955, after she experienced a "vision" of Jesus, accompanied by a panther. During this event she felt commanded by Jesus to draw and write in order to help "heal humanity". From that time, her hand began to move spontaneously across pages, in swirls and detailed formations, totally unlike anything she had consciously created before. She filled up every available space on paper provided for her by her family, claiming no ownership for the work. She took no credit for the process, saying, "I'm as excited to see what 'the hand' will do as anyone else is". There was no trance state involved, she simply allowed the creations to come through her. She never claimed to understand the process, she simply marveled at the wonder of her gift. She devoted her lifetime to these drawings and writings. Her work is reminiscent of the theme of Carl Jung's Collective Unconscious as it is viewed. The famous Surrealist, Andre Breton, described the type of experience which Alma had as "pure psychic automatism". Michael Greenwood, curator of the York University Art Gallery , in Toronto where much of Alma's collection is housed said he had never seen such a case of automatism since William Blake. Many of Alma 's visionary revelations frightened Alma and she burned many of the drawings and writings.
Some of her visions, and things she heard - very much went against what she was to believe, and once said "things she had been told would make the church very angry", when asked what things, she replied "things about the holy ghost"
To be face with visions / images / messages that went against her belife, but still 'submitting' to them and drawing such wonderful images - things that were forgin / unknown to her, but strike resemblance to gods in other cultures / etc I think is rather remarkable.
Edited by kaniz (12/10/06 08:53 PM)
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kaniz
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Re: Surreal Art Gallery [Re: kaniz]
#6355792 - 12/10/06 08:57 PM (17 years, 3 months ago) |
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How about some Louis Wain cats...
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FractalOblivion
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go to http://beinart.org/ they have all these amazing artists and even more!
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MrCubensis
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i love dali
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Re: Surreal Art Gallery [Re: MrCubensis]
#8419059 - 05/19/08 02:23 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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daytripper23
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Re: Surreal Art Gallery [Re: deranger]
#8419313 - 05/19/08 07:10 AM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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One of My favorites, Jacek Yerka
"We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter. Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it. Who does not remember the interest with which, when young, he looked at shelving rocks, or any approach to a cave? It was the natural yearning of that portion, any portion of our most primitive ancestor which still survived in us. From the cave we have advanced to roofs of palm leaves, of bark and boughs, of linen woven and stretched, of grass and straw, of boards and shingles, of stones and tiles. At last, we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think. From the hearth the field is a great distance. It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots."
-Henry David Thoreau
While Im at it,
Hayao Miyazaki:
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Awesome, another Yerka liker, have you picked up Mindfields?
Too lazy to add pics to my profile then uplaod, but here's a delicious link
http://www.sagewisdom.org/arts.html
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really amazing stuff in this thread, but half of it disturbs me immensely ... whenever I draw something that disturbs me, I can only draw for so long before I'm unable to deal with it.
I love Dali, for example, but the feeling of isolation in his paintings causes me great discomfort, and so I don't like to look at his stuff very often. very strange, that.
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Re: Surreal Art Gallery [Re: HB]
#8421799 - 05/19/08 08:42 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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I feel you on that
He uses such a strnage mix of sparse landscapes with mutated artifacts
It's a weird reminder of how technology can dehumanize, though I think his connotations are meant to be good, he said somewhere that he was heavily inspired by rural visits to his granny's home
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Re: Surreal Art Gallery [Re: HB]
#8422526 - 05/19/08 11:21 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
HB said: I love Dali, for example, but the feeling of isolation in his paintings causes me great discomfort, and so I don't like to look at his stuff very often. very strange, that.
I feel that from Beksinski's work.... Looking thru a Giger art book makes me feel "wrong", and afterwords, it makes me feel like I shouldn't have looked thru it.... Dali makes me think, "I never would have thought of THAT....!" - in a disoriented kind of way....
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deimya
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Re: Surreal Art Gallery [Re: PhanTomCat]
#8424164 - 05/20/08 01:29 PM (15 years, 9 months ago) |
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Great thread !
Beksinski also conjures weird emotions in me. And the textures are just crazy, stare at them and they get directly to the tip of your finger where you can feel them, they crawl under your skin. He too deserves a place in this thread. Here's a small sample from
http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/sztuka_o_inspiracji/zdzislaw_beksinski/zdzislaw_beksinski.htm
I don't know why but the asymmetry of the tree in the seventh picture just creeps me out in ways I cannot describe.
Edited by deimya (05/20/08 01:32 PM)
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