Tag Archives: Surrealism

Sculptures That Would be at Home in the Deep Sea [Shih Chieh Huang]

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Black & White Photography

 

 

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Dali

dali quote jpg“No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.”

“If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

-Salvador Dali

 

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Andre Breton

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“The imaginary is what tends to become real.”

“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”

“The mind which plunges into surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood”

-Andre Breton

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Distortion

Check out my new Pinterest board “Distortion” – full of other-worldly collages and distorted reality images…

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More Strange and Beautiful Landscapes

[Only one of the above images belongs to me, the others belong to the artists stated.]

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Strange and Beautiful Landscapes

Eerie, abstract, colorful and surreal places from some well-established artists (like Egon Schiele) and some contemporary finds…

…to be continued! In the meantime, check out my pinterest for more inspiring art! http://pinterest.com/jennabdecker/

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Color, Artists without Art Forms, and Visible Thoughts

“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”

Claude Monet

“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”

Toni Morrison, Sula

“Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.”

Rene Magritte

 

 

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Visualization, Going Somewhere New, and Plagarisim

“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.” -Andre Breton

“My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” -Diane Arbus  

“Art is either revolution or plagiarism” -Paul Gauguin

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