Category: Surreal

Insane Junk Food Sculptures

Post author By Christopher Smail
Post date September 18, 2014
Categories In Abstract, Color, Food & Drinks, Photography, Portraits, Sculpture, Surreal, Weird

Taking aim at the world’s sweet tooth and the sheer amount of junk food waste that as human beings we produce, photographer James Ostrer has crafted a visually stimulating project full of nightmarish candy fantasies. These photographs and sculpted works are like the twisted, sickly child of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” with melted pink icing and […]

Brendan Monroe’s Pink Blob Monster

Post author By Christopher Smail
Post date September 8, 2014
Categories In Abstract, Art, Color, Surreal

Living and working out of Oakland, California, visual artist Brendan Monroe weaves a magical spell in his work. His layout is minimal, wonderfully understated, but his subjects are surreal and complex with blob men in all the colours of the spectrum. No one does a better abstract blob than Monroe. Rooted in science and human […]

Glass Cubes and Surreal Photography

Post author By Christopher Smail
Post date September 2, 2014
Categories In Art, Dark Art, Photography, Surreal

Down in the heart of the forest, you will find the dreamy images of photographer Helen Warner. Everything from fair maidens trapped in see-through bubbles to ghostly figures drifting in a cold lake, like something out of a Wilkie Collins mystery, are captured by her assured lens. They are perfect remedies of escapism for anyone stuck […]

Mythical Hand-Drawn Illustrations

Post author By Christopher Smail
Post date August 17, 2014
Categories In Animals, Art, Birds, Black & White, Drawing, Illusion, Illustration, Surreal

The sublime illustrations published here are the works of artist Alejandro García Restrepo. He manages to render surreal visions in nothing but simple pencil. These include caskets being whisked away by hundreds of balloons and flamingos tied up in knots like something from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” He achieves a great level of contrast and shading […]

Photographing Bolivia’s Shaman Doctors

Artists Thomas Rousset and Raphael Verona made an epic journey into the heart of South America, to the Altiplano region of Bolivia, for a very special assignment. This was to photograph the magical healers and witch doctors who still populate the area. These mystics represent an enchanting slice of Latin American culture. The resulting images are […]

The Visual Tricks of Ruben Chase

Rubén Chase is a conceptual and fine art photographer from Vigo, Spain, and highly skilled when it comes to utilising the power of digital techniques in photography. There is no end to the surreal creations that he can cook up, from faces that appear fully formed out of hands to ships being born on a human breath. Just […]

Digital Art: The Phoenix Rises from the Ashes

There is definitely an air of Daenerys Targaryen in the above artwork by Bojan Jevtić. And in the same way she rose from the ashes with three baby dragons in her arms, the woman in Jevtić’s piece looks like someone reborn in red fire. There is a fantastical element to his digital art, one which combines […]

Strength of the Body, Power of the Mind

In Giulio Musardo’s photographs, humans take second place to the raw powers of nature. Using surreal or exaggerated camera angles, and showing situations of how small we are when compared to the immensity of Mother Nature. For example: starfish swarm across a rocky beach while a lighting bolt strikes right at the heart of man. […]

Secrets Spill Out Like Sand

The work of contemporary photographer David Uzochukwu is one tinged with a mood of melancholy and dreaminess. Characters in his images look like they are grappling with some kind of internal trauma. This manifests itself in a number of versatile motifs: secrets spill out the mouth and transform into sand; stylishly dressed girls are pulled up […]

Tattoos: Modern Art Birds and Dreams

Post author By The Tattoo Journalist
Post date July 16, 2014
Categories In Abstract, Art, Body Art, Surreal, Tattoo

Clearly inspired by modern art, Robert Nero’s tattoos have a touch of abstraction mixed with representational elements of nature. His bird illustrations seem like they flew into Kandinsky’s art world, especially the Bauhaus period. Images © Nero Tattoos Via Skin Deep Tales