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Surrealism
Like Abstraction, Surrealism is another large category that began as a movement and endured as a style. This imagery is bizarre, unearthly, even weird but it is always based on realism. Think Dalì’s melting clocks. Or the impossibility of Magritte’s men in suits raining from the sky.
In Quirt’s first solo at Julien Levy, in 1936, he was presented as the gallery’s first “radical painter.” He became one of the most influential painters in NYC during the WWII era, with 7 shows at the Whitney and 6 at MoMA. Forgotten after his death in 1968 — but now rediscovered....
Forte’s collages, assemblages, and bookworks have been exhibited widely, beginning in San Francisco 1970s–80s, and continuing in the Northeast since the 1990s. His art and series of compelling essays on the nature and importance of creative freedom are presented here.
This artist is a leading pioneer in the emerging artificial intelligence (AI) art movement. Using a unique program as his “brush,” he has challenged the tradition of landscape photography by creating surreal dream-like images that are in a class of their own. Now, that’s dreaming...
Rare is the artist who could claim to have dived as deep into the unconscious and survived the journey — bringing back images of intense imagination and technical brilliance. As proof, this recluse kept his life’s works buried in a dilapidated shack in the hills of Eugene, Oregon. The...
During the period between the two World Wars, Europe was left staggering. Empires had disappeared. New borders were drawn. And the ensuing deep economic recession seemed a permanent quagmire. Little wonder that within this environment artists and writers would explore themes that expressed...
