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Surrealist Mixed Media

SURREALIST STYLE

In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.

Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.

Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.

Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)

The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.

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Style: Surrealist
ERNST, Max. Rêve d'une Petite Fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel.
Located in New York, NY
ERNST, Max. Rêve d'une Petite Fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel. 176 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of 79 collages by Max Ernst. 8vo., 265 x 200 mm, bound in original illustrated wrappers, slightly faded in a new light blue cloth folding box, gilt black leather spine label. Paris: Éditions du Carrefour, 1930. Ernst's rare second collage novel about an adolescent girl who loses her virginity on the day of her first communion and so commits herself to a religious vocation as a Carmelite nun. Ernst includes a line of ironically pretentious text with each image. This is number 232 of the edition of 1000 copies on Velin, inscribed by Paul...
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1920s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper

Rainer Stern - "Il Profumo" - giclée print - hand signed/numbered - edition: 30
By Rainer Stern
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Rainer Stern - "Il Profumo". Giclée print on heavy handmade cotton paper. Edition: 30. Hand signed and numbered. A beautiful artwork that looks good in every room and especially ...
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20th Century Surrealist Mixed Media

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Handmade Paper, Giclée

Cirque du Soleil n.34 - Original Mixed Media on Paper by Sergio Barletta - 1995
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Passepartout included. This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil" that the Italian artist Sergio Barletta dedicated to ...
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1990s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Cardboard

Cirque du Soleil n.8
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Lightly damaged on bottom left sheet. Passepartout included. This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil...
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1990s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Cardboard

Cirque du Soleil n.2
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Passepartout included. This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil" that the Italian arti...
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1990s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Cardboard

Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Hunter (Sagittarius)"
Located in San Diego, CA
A 19” x 25” x 1.25" Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. The artist uses Acrylic, Colored Pencils, Imitation Golf Leaf on Wood Panel. A certificate of authentic...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

The Earth Spirit
By Joseph Karwacki
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Born in Queens, New York, Joseph Karwacki makes drawings that come directly from his experience of living in Queens. His graphic design studies at New York City College of Technology...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Anya Simmons, Weymouth Harbour, Original Boat Art, Bright Devonshire Paintings
Located in Deddington, GB
Weymouth Harbour, Dorset. Original harbour painting. Mixed Media on board (Gesso, acrylic and acrylic inks). Image Size. 51cm x 38cm. Framed size. 75cm x 57cm x 4cm. Sold framed – Be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Gesso, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Anemones - Colorful Green Still Life Flowers in Vase Bright Original Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world photographing and sketching houses...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

All We Need Is Flowers - Still Life Flowers in Vase Colorful Contemporary
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

After Midnight on the Boardwalk, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Figures walk along a shadowy path, blending into the dark background. Above, a supermoon watches over the scene. A worn ticket strip runs horizontally across ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Chroessi Schnell - "The turning point" - surrealist abstract forms of a dream
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Chroessi Schnell - "The turning point". Surrealism, abstract forms, dream universe. Mixed techniques: acryl painting, plaster, metal and varnish. Mixed Media on canvas and signed....
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Abundance (Nine of Pentacles)"
Located in San Diego, CA
A 17” x 21” x 1" Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. The artist uses Alcohol Ink, Colored Pencils, Acrylic, & Imitation Gold Leaf on Mineral Paper. A certifica...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Peculiar Forever" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 16” x 20” x 1" Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. It is unframed and Acrylic & Colored Pencils on Wood Panel. A certificate of authenticity will accompany t...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Acrylic, Wood Panel, Color Pencil

Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Exiles from Eden" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 19” x 25” x 1.25" Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery. Evgeniya Golik ...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

On the Roof, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Three people work together to install fence posts on the roof of a city building. The background features a city skyline fading into the night. The surreal sc...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Duality of Love" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 36” x 24” x 1.5" Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. The artist uses Oil and Imitation Gold Leaf on Wood Panel. A certificate of authenticity will accompany ...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

The Virgen & Child, Oil, Mixed Media, Hyperrealism, Modern Cuban Art, Surreal
Located in Houston, TX
LOOK FOR FREE SHIPPING AT CHECKOUT. The Virgin and Child - La Virgen y Nino was recently painted by the Cuban artist Brian Sanchez in 2023. It is oil and mi...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Garden of Secrets - 21st Century, Textile, Flowers, Contemporary, Colorful
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Garden with Secrets, 2015 Mixed media (Signed on reverse) 25 H × 32 3/10 W × 7 9/10 D in 63.5 H × 82 W × 20 D cm Unique The small installations designed by Raluca Arnăutu remind us ...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Textile, Mixed Media

Foot Musik
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 56 x 58 cm. Frame size: 76 x 78 cm. Free shipment worldwide. Archive number (P90/36) Acquired directly from the artist. “The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom. Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others. Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings. Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander. In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
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1990s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

One eyed man - Collage, Synthetic Fur, Black
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
One eyed man, 2014 Textile collage on paper 6 4/5 × 4 7/10 in 17.2 × 12 cm Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world, where animals from different worlds are mixed, resized, reconst...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Textile, Paper

20th Czech Surrealist collage triptych of pears by Jiri Kolar
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jiri Kolar (Czech, 1914 – 2002) Pears, 1977 Collage triptych Each panel measures 21.7 x 15.5 cm. All three are signed with initials and dated ‘J.K. 97, the latter 2 dated ‘96’ The collages are suspended between layers of glass. Aside from the collages, the image is see through up to the frame edge. Jiri Kolar was the son of a baker who became a writer around 1943. He became one of group of several artists amoung whom Vaclav Havel and others met and discussed issues in café Slavia during the period leading up to the Prague spring...
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20th Century Surrealist Mixed Media

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Glass, Paper

Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Temperance" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
A 21” x 31” x 2" Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery. Temperance card sig...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

Cheerleader 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Always be your BIGGEST cheerleader, first. Remember to stay true to yourself and have faith in yourself. Even on difficult days, never give up on making your dreams happen. Go after them with all that you are and work hard until they all become a reality. Good things take time, so remember to honor those little steps every day. Celebrate the small victories, as they are still accomplishments. All of these small steps...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Surrealist Mixed Media Portrait, "'Prince' The Guide" by Christopher Polentz
Located in San Diego, CA
A 16” x 16” x 2” Surrealist Mixed Media Portrait Painting executed on Wood Panel with Acrylic and Graphite by artist Christopher Polentz. A certificate of authenticity will accompany...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Acrylic, Graphite

Nick Knight Vinyl Record Art
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Nick Knight vinyl record art 2007: Off-set print on vinyl record. Unsigned. Measure: 12 x 12 inches Excellent condition Published by Visionaire Fashion, 2...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Offset

Hair #1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jessie Laura was born in Lima, Peru. She creates analog collages, using art to examine her everyday reality. "My work explores the workings of the mind. Nature, structure, paradoxe...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Untitled, Nude Surreal Figure in a Landscape
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Surrealism Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media Surface: Board Country: France Dimensions w/Frame: 26" x 21 3/4 Signed and signed with thumbprint Born ca.1949 in Slovenia, (then Austria later Yugoslavia) autodidact; Communist Political prisoner; Escapes to Italy; 1980, is established in France; 1991, enters Guinness for a sale at 150 million francs, record for a living artist. He geometrizes in the strictest way the figuration by declining all the blues of his palette, with their gradations. Perspectives lurk around minimalism, Towards the discovery of America...
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20th Century Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Air Mail City #1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Analog Collage 6.5 x 7 inches Collage on Paper Exhibition History: THE COLLAGE SHOW Morgan Jesse Lappin is a collage artist and curator based in Brooklyn. He seeks to explore the boundaries of collage, identify artists pushing the medium forward, and inspire others along the way. In 2013, he founded the Brooklyn Collage Collective, which consists of four core members: Morgan Jesse Lappin, Jessie Laura, Joseph Karwacki, and Michele Luger. The Brooklyn Collage Collective has worked and exhibited with other collage artists all over the world, including New York, London, Australia, and Italy. Lappin's art is a combination of comedy and chaos, with elements of music, vintage horror and sci-fi. His work ranges from seven-foot-long cartoon metropolises, to fictional album covers, to take-out Greek diner coffee cups embedded with video animations. He also uses nostalgic material from his childhood in the ‘90s, such as VHS Tape...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Collage, Assemblage Cardstock Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism
Located in Surfside, FL
DAVID JAMES GILHOOLY (American, 1943-2013), Mixed media collage 6 x 4 inches, Hand signed and dated verso titled: "a marriage made in heaven, potatoes and gravy" A handshake, a silver gravy boat and potatoes floating. cut and pasted cardstock assemblage, collaged art. David Gilhooly RCA (1943 – 2013), was an American ceramicist, sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor. He is best known for pioneering the Funk surrealism art movement. He made a series of ceramic frogs called FrogWorld, as well as ceramic food, planets, and other creatures. David James Gilhooly III was born on April 15, 1943, in Auburn, California. He was raised in Los Altos, California; Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands; and Humacao, Puerto Rico. He enrolled in University of California, Davis (UC Davis) initially studying biology, followed by anthropology, and ending with a focus on fine art. While attending UC Davis, Gilhooly served as artist Robert Arneson assistant starting in 1963. He graduated from UC Davis with a BA degree in 1965, and an MA degree in 1967. Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Cadaques No. 24, Surrealist Figure Painting by Eduardo Arranz-Bravo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Spanish (1941 - ) Title: Cadaques No.24 Year: 1994 Medium: Mixed Media (Watercolor and Color pencil) on paper, signed and dated Size: 13.75 x 5 in. (34....
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1990s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Watercolor, Color Pencil

Contemporary Surrealist Mythical Creatures
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist painting of an armored mythical creature riding another crocodile creature into battle by local Houston artist Philip Durbin.
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20th Century Surrealist Mixed Media

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Acrylic

Chaos, black and earth colors, figure, animals, creation, rain
Located in Brooklyn, NY
elephant bat butterfly panda These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pas...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Busy (vintage ladies woman lingerie 3D oil painting paper branches surrealist)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Busy is a tridimensional original painting on paper on branches depicting tailor ladies working taking body measurements along a path in a dark night. keywords; vintage tailor ladi...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Driftwood, Oil, Laid Paper

Hermits (blue butterfly Woman vintage lingerie surrealist oil painting sculpture
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Hermits is a tridimensional original painting on paper on branches depicting a woman next to a giant butterfly along a path in a dark night. keywords; butterfly, woman, lingerie, americana...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Oil, Driftwood, Laid Paper

Collage, Assemblage Cardstock Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism
Located in Surfside, FL
DAVID JAMES GILHOOLY (American, 1943-2013), Mixed media collage 6 x 4 inches, Hand signed and dated verso titled: "Many frivolous titles come to mind" A man on horseback, man and horse. cut and pasted cardstock assemblage, collaged art. David Gilhooly RCA (1943 – 2013), was an American ceramicist, sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor. He is best known for pioneering the Funk art movement. He made a series of ceramic frogs called FrogWorld, as well as ceramic food, planets, and other creatures. David James Gilhooly III was born on April 15, 1943, in Auburn, California. He was raised in Los Altos, California; Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands; and Humacao, Puerto Rico. He enrolled in University of California, Davis (UC Davis) initially studying biology, followed by anthropology, and ending with a focus on fine art. While attending UC Davis, Gilhooly served as artist Robert Arneson assistant starting in 1963. He graduated from UC Davis with a BA degree in 1965, and an MA degree in 1967. Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Mythical Man, male figure w dark skin among birch tree forest earth tones, blue
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Black & White
Located in Dallas, TX
​Antony Collings, also known as “ABC” is an international selling artist with a growing portfolio and social media following. His art has been displayed in galleries and exhibitions ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Spray Paint, Screen

"Las Esquinas del Tiempo (The Corners of Time), " signed by Teresa Olabuenaga
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Las Esquinas del Tiempo (The Corners of Time)" is an original mixed media on canvas by Teresa Olabuenaga. It depicts abstract forms, a figure in a sarcophagus, a nude breast...
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1990s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media

The Human Condition, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

"Cammino Nell'Universo (Path in the Universe)" mixed media on canvas artwork
By Oriano Galloni
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Cammino Nell'Universo (Path in the Universe)" mixed media artwork by artist Oriano Galloni. A tiny sculpture in the upper left corner of the canvas is the first sculpture the artist...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

ID pass. V Abstract framed animal mixed media, Mixed Media on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
One of a kind mixed media manipulated digitally on paper. Elegant, the heavyweight parchment is treated with multiple layers of acrylic and varnish to match the shades of the di...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Voice of Treason
Located in Los Angeles, CA
VoIce of Treason 12 x 12inches Collage on Paper Exhibition History: THE COLLAGE SHOW Morgan Jesse Lappin is a collage artist and curator based in Brooklyn. He seeks to explore the boundaries of collage, identify artists pushing the medium forward, and inspire others along the way. In 2013, he founded the Brooklyn Collage Collective, which consists of four core members: Morgan Jesse Lappin, Jessie Laura, Joseph Karwacki, and Michele Luger. The Brooklyn Collage Collective has worked and exhibited with other collage artists all over the world, including New York, London, Australia, and Italy. Lappin's art is a combination of comedy and chaos, with elements of music, vintage horror and sci-fi. His work ranges from seven-foot-long cartoon metropolises, to fictional album covers, to take-out Greek diner coffee cups embedded with video animations. I also use nostalgic material from my childhood in the ‘90s, such as VHS Tape...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Magazine Paper

Surrealist Painting on Tile, "Alter Ago II"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original painting on glazed tile by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 8.8" x 10.8" x 1.5". It is framed as pictured. A certificate of authenticit...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Surrealist Mixed Media Artwork, "Coraline"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media artwork by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 8" x 10" x .75". It is unframed. A certifica...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Every1's a Winner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Michele Luger addresses the unknown, the hidden away, and deep feelings of nostalgia, for a place or time you've never lived. In her collage work, she explores the ways in which we mask...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Jeepers Creepers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Analog Collage VoIce of Treason 12 x 12inches Collage on Paper Exhibition History: THE COLLAGE SHOW Morgan Jesse Lappin is a collage artist and curator based in Brooklyn. He seeks to explore the boundaries of collage, identify artists pushing the medium forward, and inspire others along the way. In 2013, he founded the Brooklyn Collage Collective, which consists of four core members: Morgan Jesse Lappin, Jessie Laura, Joseph Karwacki, and Michele Luger. The Brooklyn Collage Collective has worked and exhibited with other collage artists all over the world, including New York, London, Australia, and Italy. Lappin's art is a combination of comedy and chaos, with elements of music, vintage horror and sci-fi. His work ranges from seven-foot-long cartoon metropolises, to fictional album covers, to take-out Greek diner coffee cups embedded with video animations. He also uses nostalgic material from his childhood in the ‘90s, such as VHS Tape...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Elaine Lustig Cohen "Sea Machine" - Surrealist Mixed Media Seascape SIGNED
By Elaine Lustig Cohen
Located in Surfside, FL
ELAINE LUSTIG COHEN (b. 1927) is an artist, dealer, and designer. She founded the gallery Ex Libris with her husband, publisher and author Arthur Cohen. Cohen’s recent work concentrates on collage using found photographs and ephemera. Elaine Lustig Cohen is the pioneering female graphic designer who incorporated the aesthetic vocabulary of European modernism into American graphic design, during the 1950s and 1960s. After training as a painter, she developed her design skills working with Alvin Lustig (whom she married in 1948). Following Lustig's premature death in 1955, she took control of the studio and between 1955 and 1961 produced a distinctive series of covers for publishing houses Meridan Books and New Directions. With their strong concepts, abstract forms and typographic invention, they represented a break from the prevailing tradition of pictorial illustration in book-jacket design. Her ability to summarize the content of text in the cover design was further aided when, working for architects including Eero Saarinen and Philip Johnson she produced signage schemes intended to express a building's character. She designed many posters and catalogues for New York-based arts organizations, including the American Center for the Arts, the Lincoln Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Jewish Museum. She married Arthur A. Cohen, publisher of Meridian Books; in 1973, they established Ex Libris, New York, a bookshop and gallery specializing in rare volumes of the European avant-garde. In 1995 her contribution to graphic design was acknowledge by an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York." (Livingston, 2003, 51). She continues to paint and create dynamic graphic collage-based work and is represented by Julie Saul Gallery, New York. Elaine Lustig Cohen donated her collection to RIT in 2008. Lustig Cohen, the subject of a joint retrospective in 2007 at Julie Saul Gallery and Pavel Zoubok Gallery, has exhibited widely since the 1970s. Her work is found in the collections of the Whitney Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Boston Museum of Fine Arts, among many others. A retrospective of her graphic designs was held at the Cooper-Hewitt in 1995. Ex Libris, which she ran together with her husband Arthur Cohen, was highly regarded for its exhibitions of 20th century avant garde books and ephemera...
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20th Century Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Aleksandria
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jessie Laura was born in Lima, Peru. She creates analog collages, using art to examine her everyday reality. "My work explores the workings of the mind. Nature, structure, paradoxe...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Kazimir
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jessie Laura was born in Lima, Peru. She creates analog collages, using art to examine her everyday reality. "My work explores the workings of the mind. Nature, structure, paradoxe...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

XII-47 surrealist collage
Located in CANNES, FR
Max Bucaille ( 1906-1996 ) Collage surrealist " XII -47 " work on paper, dated XII 1947 , and signed Max Bucaille . framed original vintage black...
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1940s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Archival Paper, Magazine Paper

Swing XXVII abstract one of a kind framed figure, Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Swing XXVII is about imagination, something that attracts you. One of a kind mixed media manipulated on canvas. Elegant, the heavyweight canvas is treated with multiple laye...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Surreal Collage: 'The Definition of Insanity'
Located in New York, NY
Barnett, a surrealist artist incorporates discarded mechanical objects and gadgets into his artwork. His work is characterized by its unique and eclectic mix of materials, which rang...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Watercolor, Color Pencil, Graphite

L'anticonformiste, '90s - musical box, 30x40x20 cm.
Located in Nice, FR
Patrick Chelli it a georgian artist that lives nowadays in Paris. This box contains a penguin chorus. The penguins have mobile heads and the mechanism is alimented by electricity. A ...
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1990s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Myth, Muse and Metaphor #9, Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Myth, Muse and Metaphor #9 (How's Your Summer Going So Far?)" is a mixed media painting of acrylic and collage on canvas. It features various abstract organic shapes based on flower...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pastel, colored pencil with collage elements Unsigned Condition: Repaired tear in the area of the moon, only visible from verso Pin holes in the corners and in the ...
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1940s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Pastel, Mixed Media, Color Pencil

Celestial Night, dark colors, astronomy, black female nude, stars, maps, collage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These collages were created first in the presence of a model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone, furiously tearing and pasting images from magazines, v...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

"Robber", Surreal, Figure, Green, Red, Blue, Oil, Monotype, Mixed Media, 1980
Located in Natick, MA
“Robber” by artist Mary Spencer is a 22.5 x 30 inch surreal mixed media painting on paper with dominant colors of blue, red and green. The painting is signed on the front and back. ...
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1980s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype

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