Monday, February 21, 2011

Jim Warren

Similar to Christian Rex van Minnen, Jim Warren has cleverly incorporated a woman's face into a surreal painting, by using aspects of the scenery or landscape to create the woman's face. Christian Rex Van Minnen's approach is slightly more surrealist though they same principle and effect has been created.



 Another interesting thing that Jim Warren often does in his painting can be seen below, where he paints a person, child or something else 'ripping through the background or sky'. This could be something very interesting to play with in paintings or even photographs. The painting below is titled 'Don't Mess With Mother Nature', and is a surrealist take on how mankind is destroying the earth through litter, and also expresses the rage of mother nature who is pairing through the sky/clouds. I think all of Jim's Art is very effective and interesting. : D



Vladimir Kush

Vladimir Kush is a surrealist artist who mostly use everyday objests and changes them into something out of the ordinary.



Kush's paintings clearly have a very 'cartoony' feel to them, yet he is still able to convey a realistic and believable picture, even in the surrealist scenes that he paints. Very impressive.  :)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Camille Rose Garcia - Bill Hammond

Drips. They make nice backgrounds. Camille Rose Garcia and Bill Hammond are very good at this.... Let's take a look.


Bill Hammond




Camille Rose Garcia

As you can see they both have very different styles of painting, though what they achieve through their complex background is the same. It keeps the painting looking interesting, colourful, and surreal.  Something i would like to achieve in my own paintings. :D


Friday, February 18, 2011

The Lovers

I've always loved this CD album artwork, and after Luke showed my Rene Magritte's paintings, i realized that the album art was photography directly inspired by 'The Lovers' series by Rene Magritte.!
                                                                                   
 
"Casually dresses and deep in Conversation" - Album ART


Rene Magritte - The Lovers

An obvious similarity between the two. Love both of them. The surrealist feel of the both, along with the colour pallet.  :D



Thursday, February 17, 2011

Shirley Shelton

I like the simplicity of the painting and The limited variety of colour. very EFFECTIVE.  :)

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Gabriel Moreno


Interesting idea of the way in which the image is set out - perhaps more of an artist model for folios rather that the intenal.  ?

Christian Rex van Minnen


This Guy uses a women's silhouette or figure and paints inside them, or even creates their face/form through a surreal style of painting. (below)

Richard Young



Richard young is a UK based artist who paints figures mostly in movement or dance. I love the use of lightinghe uses on his figures.

Paul Cava


Paul Cava is an artist who crosses between different Mediums in his artwork. For example using painting techniques and effects, in a photography peice. I like this idea, and in particular the way he uses stencils, negative space, and silhouettes. (above).  :)