Diane Flick Art
Diane Flick is a Bay Area artist who paints quirky portraits of robots with a playful color palette and masterful realism. Diane Flick majored in art during college and went on to graduate school, receiving her MA in humanities with a creative study emphasis in 2001. Each of Diane’s robots expresses its own humanlike and idiosyncratic personality. From an early age, she had a fascination with inanimate objects and often imagined what they would be like with human characteristics. Her portfolio explores the human experience through non-human subjects.
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A slow-moving sea turtle swims with determination, balancing a cupcake on its head. It evokes feelings of solitude, peace, and joy. The artwork, painted over a ...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Oil
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Dwelling in a space of absolute simplicity, free from endless mental chatter, seems quite appealing. A tiny robot with a die is captivated by what exists before...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Oil
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This piece blends collaged pages from an old novel with translucent oil glazes as a background. The subjects—a primate, a tennis ball, and a shoe—are rendered in opaque and calm tones. The piece delves into the human condition...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
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Artist Diane Flick presents a glimpse into someone else's image of utopia. "Colonel Picklebottom's otherworldly dream persists only to exist," says Diane. In th...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Oil
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Stacked like rocks on the shore, artist Diane Flick plays with scale, color, texture, and joyful imagery—creating a quirky, awkward, and jovial childlike bala...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Oil
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Artist Diane Flick paints a surrealist scene of home appliances descending the sky in parachutes. The first in her playful Anthromorphic Vintage Appliance series. "They love, they ponder, they tire, they argue, they weave intricate and colorful tapestries, and they skydive," narrates Diane. She depicts a vivid, calm, and symmetrically centered visual style drawing influence from Wes Anderson.
About the Artist
Diane Flick is a Bay Area artist who paints quirky portraits of robots with a playful color palette and masterful realism. Each of Diane’s robots expresses its own humanlike and idiosyncratic personality. From an early age, she had a fascination with inanimate objects and often imagined what they would be like with human characteristics. Her portfolio explores the human experience through non-human subjects.
Words that describe this painting: parachuting, parachute, refrigerator, phone, telephone, television, vintage, appliances, Wes Anderson, sky, calm, serene, surrealism, silly, Eric Joyner...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Oil
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“Curiouser and curiouser,†quotes artist Diane Flick. In her playful and whimsical style, Diane pictures a blender with the limbs of a human and the crown of an animal. The anthropomorphic creature embodies the same comfort from its heart and breathes deeply in the warm, rhythmic, and glorious world. It perches on a pillow situated on a pine tree growing sideways from the dark cerulean sky.
About the Artist
Diane Flick is a Bay Area artist who paints quirky portraits of robots with a playful color palette and masterful realism. Each of Diane’s robots expresses its own humanlike and idiosyncratic personality. From an early age, she had a fascination with inanimate objects and often imagined what they would be like with human characteristics. Her portfolio explores the human experience through non-human subjects.
Words that describe this painting: blender, vintage, appliance, meditate, meditating, peace, calm, serene, serenity, sky, redwood, tree, pillow, comfortable, comfort, Eric Joyner...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Oil
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"This painting celebrates the joy and the art of the frolic, the fanciful, and the free!" says artist Diane Flick. Loosely inspired by Mary Poppins with a nod to her in the title, Diane explores her playful imagination by drawing an expansive landscape with random and happy imagery conceived in pure delight. Having just given birth to her second child when beginning this piece, Diane spent that summer enjoying the new addition to her family, rolling down imaginary hills with childlike enthusiasm, wrapping herself in the sweetness of new motherhood again, and painting.
About the Artist
Diane Flick is a Bay Area artist who paints quirky portraits of robots with a playful color palette and masterful realism. Each of Diane’s robots expresses its own humanlike and idiosyncratic personality. From an early age, she had a fascination with inanimate objects and often imagined what they would be like with human characteristics. Her portfolio explores the human experience through non-human subjects.
Words that describe this painting: surrealism, pop surrealism, robot, balloons, chair, scarf, ostrich, Eric Joyner...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Oil
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"Her new little love is the best, most difficult, most joyous, and heart-bursting thing possible for glowing mama bot," says artist Diane Flick. A robot stands gently carrying her baby, smiling wide against a warm luminous background. "Rest and snuggle well dear ones. There is much to enjoy and look forward to."
About the Artist
Diane Flick is a Bay Area artist who paints quirky portraits of robots with a playful color palette and masterful realism. Each of Diane’s robots expresses its own humanlike and idiosyncratic personality. From an early age, she had a fascination with inanimate objects and often imagined what they would be like with human characteristics. Her portfolio explores the human experience through non-human subjects.
Words that describe this painting: baby, kewpie doll...
21st Century and Contemporary Diane Flick Art
Oil
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I love that we can turn sheets of paper into an afternoon of soaring adventures over tropical islands, with terrible beasts and beautiful waterfalls, with our...
21st Century and Contemporary Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
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A fairytale-like painting of toy robots and dolls reading and playing together on a tropical beach. "Concerns over rust or water dama...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Diane Flick Art
Oil
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"A kindness shared among strangers blurs boundaries between those with heartbeats and those without," says Diane Flick. Her latest series of ink and watercolo...
21st Century and Contemporary Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
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"Make true your spirit through solidarity with your sisters and brothers, and by doing super studly things," says Diane Flick of this playful scene. Her latest series of ink and watercolor drawings adds more characters to her invented universe where robots befriend animals and devour delicious treats. These diminutive drawings work well on their own, or tell a great story in groups of three or five.
About the Artist
Diane Flick is a Bay Area artist who paints quirky portraits of robots with a playful color palette and masterful realism. Each of Diane’s robots expresses its own humanlike and idiosyncratic personality. From an early age, she had a fascination with inanimate objects and often imagined what they would be like with human characteristics. Her portfolio explores the human experience through non-human subjects.
Words that describe this painting: robot, weightlifting, skateboard, pop surrealism, Eric Joyner...
21st Century and Contemporary Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
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"A true gift sparks joy in my heart and a craving for jelly," says Diane Flick of this playful scene. Her latest series of ink and watercolor drawings adds more characters to her invented universe where robots befriend animals and devour delicious treats. These diminutive drawings work well on their own, or tell a great story in groups of three or five.
About the Artist
Diane Flick is a Bay Area artist who paints quirky portraits of robots with a playful color palette and masterful realism. Each of Diane’s robots expresses its own humanlike and idiosyncratic personality. From an early age, she had a fascination with inanimate objects and often imagined what they would be like with human characteristics. Her portfolio explores the human experience through non-human subjects.
Words that describe this painting: robot, peanut, gift, present, pop surrealism, Eric...
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
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"A 'bot's best friend is his hedgehog," says Diane Flick. "Fill in the blanks with various other creature comforts and random additions, and we have the makin...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
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"The silence is broken only by the occasional mechanical slurp of tongue on lolly, flutter of paper-thin wing and hum of hovering metal body," says Diane Flic...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
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I had the most fun making this piece because it was my first attempt at abstraction in collage, which I have now discovered is incredibly fun, and because th...
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
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This piece is made of hand cut and torn paper adhered to a cradled masonite panel with matte medium. It is the first collage in the 'Bots series. What starte...
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
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On a blue-sky day, two friends meet up and talk about everything. One is logical, lightening quick, and forthright. The other is simple, intuitive and uninhi...
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
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Take the plastic off the lounge chairs and the blocks from under the tires. It's time for summertime fun for the whole family! This piece pays homage to the f...
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
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I remember feeling a surge of joy when I felt the subtle pulse of new friendship as a child. New friends made their way into my life, not often, but effortles...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Mixed Media
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Oil, Polymer
2010s Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Board, Oil
Mid-19th Century Realist Diane Flick Art
Oil
2010s Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Archival Ink, Oil
2010s Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Archival Ink, Oil
19th Century Romantic Diane Flick Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 1800s Modern Diane Flick Art
Oil, Canvas
1980s Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Canvas, Oil
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Oil, Canvas
2010s Surrealist Diane Flick Art
Pastel, Oil, Cotton Canvas