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Surrealism was a cultural movement which developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and was largely influenced by Dada. The movement is best known for its visual artworks and writings and the juxtaposition of distant realities to activate the unconscious mind through the imagery.

Pics:Rene Magritte, “The Son of Man,” 1964
Link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism

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"The Persistence of Memory”--Salvador Dali 

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"The Persistence of Memory”--Salvador Dali 

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The iconic view on melting watches is the central motif of the most famous Dalí painting – The Persistence of Memory, which is widely recognized and still actual in modern pop culture. Somewhere in the abstract surreal dreamworld of desires based on Catalan landscape and profound meditation on the theme of the space-time continuum. This painting was of great importance for Surrealism movement and for the artist himself, since Dalí has returned to the theme in various media, style and variations - The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, Persistence of Memory, the Nobility of Time, the Profile of Time and the Three Dancing Watches.

Link:https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/surrealist-paintings/salvador-dali-2-1

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The figures surrounding the table are Roby’s family. Roby is the gloomy rabbit with red eyes that already started to slice the crocodile and eat it. Roby’s mother is the 3 headed girl who already started to direct her knife onto the crocodile’s mouth. The three head represent the cycle of life; birth, life, and death. Roby’s father has a crab claw head, which symbolize hope of an accomplishment or in other words, prayers that represent the family.  He already clamped on the crocodile’s tail and ready to cut it with a knife that he holds in his hand. Roby’s deceased brother is also present wearing a suit. His head is a Lily that symbolizes purity, simplicity and spirituality. The Lily also represents memory and innocence.

Artist: Roby Dwi Antono, (b. 1990) Indonesian pop surrealist Roby Dwi Antono.

Link:https://www.behance.net/gallery/29336947/Januari-di-Utara
http://lobilob.blogspot.com/p/about_26.html

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Artist: Aykut Aydogdu was born in 1986, Ankara - Turkey.  He started studying Fine Arts at high school and graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts - Graphic Design. His surreal figurative works are mainly concentrated on the dilemmas of the daily life.

Link:https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9007267995283287/
https://www.aykworks.com/about

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I have always loved the concept of the lotus flower growing from the bottom of the pond, through the mud, and with little light until it finally completes its journey to the surface of the water. During the time of creating this painting, I felt completely submerged in mud mentally and emotionally. I wanted to use those emotions as fuel to inspire my way out of that place. The woman is in a fetal-like position with body language displaying surrender. Her energy is going towards creating something beautiful. Towards making it above the water. And with time, she gradually does.

Artist:Marissa Strickland
Link:https://www.pinterest.com/pin/760404718335511748/
https://marissastricklandart.com/about

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Artist: Yaşar VURDEM, who is from Kayseri, Turkey, a Digital portrait artist, freelance illustrator.

Link:https://www.pinterest.com/pin/3377768458212699/
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3o1Z9v

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Blurb's picture is about the office worker he is trying to stop the use of of the plastic bag. Blurb's idea that we should stop wasting plastic to save our environment. His focal point is the roll of plastic so made it big in size. He used black wallpaper because when he put white wallpaper he find no balance of the colors in the picture. The artist add the picture of a man who looks educated and would understand the use of using plastic bags and how it affects the environment.

Artist: Blurb from Afra Al Quabisi
Project Date: Feb. 2016
Link:https://www.kevintrinh.com/portfolio/surrealism-saving-the-environment/

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From now through April, Johansson’s imaginative and mind-bending photo manipulations will be on display at the American Swedish Institute,  whose photographs document the aftershock of Chernobyl and its transformation of Sweden’s environment.

“This year is our year of shift, but also shift looking at the environment, nature, and climate change,” Karen Nelson, a representative for the institute said.

A lot of the places that you see in his work are photographed within just a couple of miles from where he grew up. All of these ideas go in different directions, like different worlds in a way, but he somehow tries to bring it all together by photographing all the material in a similar environment.”

Courtesy of the American Swedish Institute
Link:https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/erik-johansson-photographs/

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This is an environment piece assignment where the artist wants to explore a Japanese theme surreal concept he/she has in mind. Kati StarSoulArt went through the process of researching, planning, testing some color variations, and rendering. There are elements of koi fish dude and so on.

Artist: Kati StarSoulArt
Sarin Singhasaneh--Freelance Illustrator & Character Design in Singapore.
Link:https://wwww.artstation.com/starsoulart

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Painting style: Surrealism

Materials: Small Canvas, Acrylic Paints, paper cups, trays, cardboard drip lift

Process: Select paints, layer, tip, agitate etc.

1. Set up materials

2. Prepare the Paints – Pour your fluid paint into paper cups ready to pour onto the canvas. Fluid paint can be made by combining acrylic paint, acrylic medium, and water. Add the water slowly while stirring to ensure the right consistency of paint.

3. Choose several colors you like, and pour different colors of paint into a paper cup.

4.Put canvas upside down on your paper cup, and then turn it over with the paper cup and the painting, then begin transferring paint to the canvas.

5. Spread the paint – Spread the paint by moving the canvas to let it naturally flow.

Reflection: Fluid art uses an acrylic paint that is more liquid than traditional acrylics. Fluid art paint is easy to make using acrylic paints, acrylic medium, and water. I enjoy the process of moving the canvas by hand and see the flow of paint of different colors. The coolest part of the painting is the thin yellow and blue stripes. If you look carefully, there will be butterflies, dogs, elephants, and snakes. And the white and pink fluctuations on the top are very distinctive and fantastic. Next time, I will try my best to save my painting, at least I should make it consistent with the original appearance. Because some parts of this painting were accidentally damaged, which is different from what I did at the beginning.

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Choose several colors you like, then pour and layer different colors of paint into a paper cup.

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Put canvas upside down on your paper cup, and then turn it over with the paper cup and the painting. Then, take the paper cup away.

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Spread the paint by moving the canvas to let it naturally flow.

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I think the effect and color of the newly completed painting is the best. Because these paints are not dry, and still have luster under the light.

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The lines are  smooth, and there are small cells. This part shows different color brightness, such as navy blue and light blue. I was surprised by the synthetic green, as yellow and blue were mixed in the paper cup.

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The distribution of lines, the brightness of the color, and the these of small cells, together form a frightened dog

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The connection between lines and ripples is fantastic, like a butterfly

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Painting style: Surrealism

Materials: Small Canvas, Acrylic Paints, paper cups, trays, cardboard drip lift

Process: Select paints, layer, tip, agitate etc.

1. Set up materials

2. Prepare the Paints – Pour your fluid paint into paper cups ready to pour onto the canvas. Fluid paint can be made by combining acrylic paint, acrylic medium, and water. Add the water slowly while stirring to ensure the right consistency of paint.

3. Choose several colors you like, and pour different colors of paint into a paper cup.

4.Put canvas upside down on your paper cup, and then turn it over with the paper cup and the painting, then begin transferring paint to the canvas.

5. Spread the paint – Spread the paint by moving the canvas to let it naturally flow.

Reflection: The painting outlines a river of blood by contrasting strong and bright colors. The lower right corner of the painting has a lot of colors combined, green and black, color, white and so on. The shape of the lines is complex and looks strange. In the upper left corner, a scraping method is used to combine a straight line with a distorted wavy line. If you look closely, you will find a love above the painting, which represents the theme - Romance till death.

Next time I'll improve and adjust the color coordination and drawing method, because I think the upper left corner will appear to be out of step with the overall painting.

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Step1:Choose several colors you like, then pour and layer different colors of paint into a paper cup.

Step2:Put canvas upside down on your paper cup, and then turn it over with the paper cup and the painting. Then, take the paper cup away.

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Spread the paint by moving the canvas to let it naturally flow.

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After pouring the paint, the cup retains a gradient of lines and colors. It seems that the pigment is very clearly layered.

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About Desert (Desierta) Salvador Dali Painting Surrealism Art 'Desierta' was created by Salvador Dali in Surrealism style. Salvador Dalí is the first Marquess of Dalí de Púbol was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship and the striking and bizarre images in his work. About the Canvas Prints Desert (Desierta) - Salvador Dali Painting - Surrealism Art by Salvador Dali.

The reason I chose this painting is that it uses materials from skeleton hands , and the background is a dry desert and a sunny sky. Compare to  the object at the back, the skeleton hand occupies a large proportion. The colors of the desert and the sky vary from dark to light, which is  layered and gradual.

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Use a pencil to outline the picture.
Materials: water color paper, pencil, eraser

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Dip a watercolor pen with black and yellow paint to draw the bottom of the desert.
Materials: water color paper, pot, water, palette, water color pen, brushes, sponge.

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Dip a watercolor pen with black and yellow paint to draw the bottom of the desert.

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Use sponge and watercolor pen to draw the base color of desert,  arm and sky.

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If the layering is obvious, I added white to reconcile a color that can be mixed and make the color looks smooth.

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I used two watercolor pens to knock together to achieve the effect of grits on the desert. And I used some dark brown to deepen the shadow of the desert hills.
The sky--I just keeps adding white to make it divided into different layers.

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Hills, human hands, cloud.

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Arms, shade, rocks, grit.

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Clouds, sunlight.

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Hills, cloud, dry plant.

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Clouds

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Artist:Vladimir Kush
Source:https://www.pinterest.com/pin/307370743288045323/?d=t&mt=login

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Joan Miró, 1919, Nu au miroir (Nude with a Mirror), oil on canvas,  Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Exhibited at Galerie La Licorne, Paris, 1921, reproduced in the catalogue.
Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Mir%C3%B3

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Artist: Samy Charnine, 1967
Charnine’s paintings are surrealism in their detail yet with composition that evokes an emotional response from the viewer. Born in Nice on the French Riviera, Samy Charnine immigrated to the United States in 1983. He lives a secluded life and is very devoted to his art.

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Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938

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Key words: Human ignorance, suffering, empty.

Ideas: The background of the paint is from the magma of hell, to the ground, to the sky, to the clouds.

Outline: The head of a man in a formal suit become a book, and he holds a skull in his hand,  trying to figure out what it is about. The organs floating in the magma are like the letters in a book. This ''successful'' and ''knowledgeable'' person will not have the knowledge in the book in his mind, just as there will be no organs in this skeleton. There was a hole, which dug in his body, and blended with the background, it proves that the theme of the painting is about emptiness.

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Materials: Medium-sized brush, black pigment, water, palette, canvas paper.
First I wet the canvas with a brush, then I use black pigment and a little water to gradually draw the suit of the character, so that they will layer, and become darker and darker.
Second, I used black paint and the brush to color the skull. Then I wait for it to dry before deepening the shadow part. I drew the shadow part with lager ratio of black pigment ratio of water.

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First I mixed the colors of the pages with dark yellow and brown to prove that it was an old book. Second, I first gave this person's neck, hands, arms and feet with flesh color to do the bottom. In addition, I drew some details on his neck and arm. The character's neck was covered with black blood vessels, much like vines. At the same time, I also painted a rough figure of magma and land. I painted magma in crimson and black and avoided the main organs. I used the brush with a lot of water and brown paint at first, and then I used sponge to put these colors mix smooth together.