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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
Surrealist Mixed Media Artwork, "Pomegranates"
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

Surrealist Mixed Media Artwork, "Ladders"
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

Surrealist Mixed Media Artwork, "Circle Dance"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media artwork by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 12" x 12" x .75". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity will follow del...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Surrealist Rooftops Collage
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Rita Boley Bolaffio (née Luzzatto; Trieste, Italy, 7 June 1898 - New York City, United States, 20 May 1995. Surrealist Rooftops. Collage on fabric, measures 19 x 34 inches framed. Ar...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Mixed Media

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Fabric, Paper

Surrealist Mixed Media Artwork, "Pavanne"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is an original mixed media artwork by Southern California artist, Cheryl Tall. Its dimensions are 12" x 12" x .75". It is unframed. A certific...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

The Virgen & the Mechanical Creed, Oil, Mixed Media, Hyperrealism, Cuban Art,
Located in Houston, TX
LOOK FOR FREE SHIPPING AT CHECKOUT. The Virgin & The Mechanical Creed - La Virgen y el Credo Mecanico was recently painted by the Cuban artist Brian Sanchez in 2023. It is oil and mixed media on linen . The Virgin & The Mechanical Creed - La Virgen y el Credo Mecanico by Brian Sanchez shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art that is now available to the world art market. The Virgin & The Mechanical Creed - La Virgen y el Credo Mecanico is one of many of the hyperrealism paintings by the artist. Other available paintings by the artist Brian Sanchez are in the image section. Brian Sanchez recently showed at the Art Fair in Dallas, Texas. The painting is gallery wrapped . The mechanical need of being human or to have a faith or a sacred creed in which to trust is the theme of this painting. Artist Statement: In a way, when I start a painting, it's like starting a journey. A journey that explores my past, philosophy and the human subconscious. My creations in my view are very symbolic. There are many elements in it that have latent meanings, whether collective or personal. They also have a strong philosophical and psychological charge, mainly delving into the subconscious and the dark part that we possess and repress, contrasting it with the pleasant or tender part that we want to simulate. The origin of things has a great meaning in me. This is how my inspiration arises in the world of childhood - as the origin of man - abstract symbols that simulate cells - origin of life -, the wheel - origin of civilization. I also use circles to symbolize cycles of time and life. Passage of time, nostalgia, pain, loneliness, human darkness, disturbing and perhaps bitter elements, I contrast them like enigmas in environments of apparent calm. Innocent figures with heartbreaking and enigmatic worlds. I exploit all the techniques, even sometimes I use unconventional materials until I reach the desired point of maximum expression. Influenced mainly by Klimt, Flemish medieval masters, Chagal, Pedro Pablo Oliva, Joan Miro...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

"Christina the Astonishing" Metal Edition Blue-Toned Figurative Print on Metal
Located in Houston, TX
Blue-toned abstract surrealist figurative print on metal by artist Vic Lee / Victor Lee. The work depicts a portrait of a lady with pinned-up hair and a monarch butterfly and some wh...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Metal

"Lady Gaia - Eyes" Metal Edition Yellow-Toned Abstract Figurative Print on Metal
Located in Houston, TX
Yellow-toned abstract surrealist figurative print on metal by artist Vic Lee / Victor Lee. The work depicts a young lady in a dainty dress with a print of koi fishes in a pond. The l...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Metal

Rough and Tumble
Located in Cazadero, CA
This pieces has a steel frame
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Clay, Epoxy Resin, Chalk, Charcoal, Pigment, Carbon Pigment

Old Growth, New Beginnings, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Jennifer Ross displays an egg in brilliant turquoise. She composes the springtime piece with her signature eggshell collage. "Throughout my artistic career, I have returned to the imagery of a bird’s nest with a single egg above," shares Jennifer. She celebrates the season with new buds on the branches holding the nest.


About the Artist
Artist Jennifer Ross creates intimate portraits of birds, nests and horses. Jennifer grew up surrounded by the art of her mother and grandfather. Her attempt to follow in their footsteps presented detours, however, and she ended up working in art galleries selling other's work. But her desire to paint continued to grow throughout the years. In 2008, a gift certificate...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Just Around the Corner
Located in Cazadero, CA
This abstract surrealist artwork is a collage composed of a mix of clay, charcoal, epoxy resin, ink on canvas. Artwork has a steel frame. Paint does flow onto frame in some places. M...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Concrete

"Green Rhythms, Melon Dreams" Pastel on paper signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Green Rhythms, Melon Dreams" is an original pastel drawing on paper by Della Wells. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This work features an alligator with what appears...
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1990s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Pastel, Paper

Anemones
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
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

Death Head, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Drew McSherry pictures an enigmatic profile of a face. It appears to be a creature with its mouth agape. His process begins with loose sketching and blotting to achieve a smudged effect. Drew layers pastel over the work to enrich the darker colors.


About the Artist
Drew McSherry finds inspiration in the paranormal and the darker parts of life. His images contain a sense of the macabre and oftentimes feel fantastical. He currently lives in California and has been influenced by artists like Eug;ne Carri;re and Odilon Redon. Fun fact: when he;s not painting, he is working on a series of children;s books.


Words that describe this painting: death, scary, pastel, charcoal, paper, horror, skull, monster, portrait, profile, mixed media, vertical, surrealism, people, small, drawing, people, surrealism, mixed media artwork, brown


Death Head...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

What is the universe? - Mixed Media by Anna Maria Caboni - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
What is the universe? A Thousand Million of Overwhelming Moons. Come In. is a fascinating painting by the Italian artist Anna Maria Caboni. It represent a metallic version of a gala...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Le fils de l'homme
Located in New York, NY
Rene Magritte Le fils de l'homme, 2018 7-Ply Grade A Canadian Maplewood 31 × 8 inches Edition 35/250 Authorized artist's signature on the deck; hand numbered. along with separate hand signed COA by The Skateroom...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Wood, Screen

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Mixed Media by Anna Maria Caboni - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall is a fascinating painting by the Italian artist Anna Maria Caboni. It is a metaphor for the contemporary First-World city, where everything is metallic, and...
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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

Garden of Secrets - 21st Century, Textile, Flowers, Contemporary, Colorful
Located in Berlin, 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

Untitled #27-1997-22
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
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1990s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Surrealist Photo Collage Assemblage Art Butterfly Mouth Ivan Chermayeff
Located in Surfside, FL
Ivan Chermayeff (1932-2017): Butterfly Mouth Mixed media collage, 2002, hand signed 'Ivan Chermayeff' and dated lower right, titled lower left. Bears label from David Findlay Jr. Gallery, NY. 22 1/2 x 15 in. (sheet), 25 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (frame). Provenance: The estate of the artist. Ivan Chermayeff born London, United Kingdom, 1932 Chermayeff was one of the greatest American graphic designers, the son of the Russian born, British architect Serge Chermayeff. Ivan Chermayeff Graduated from the Phillips Academy of Andover, Massachusetts in 1950. He studied at Harvard until 1952, and the Institute of Design (New Bauhaus) until 1954. Graduated from the Yale School of Arts and Architecture in 1955 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. The same year he did a short apprenticeship with Alvin Lustig—a pioneer of American graphic design—and then moved on to CBS as Assistant Art Director in record cover design. In 1956 he co-founded Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar Associate, with Robert Brownjohn and his former schoolmate Tom Geismar. In 1959 Brownjohn left and the studio changed to Chermayeff & Geismar Inc. It soon became one of the best-known design firms worldwide. The firm produced over six-hundred marks, and they were among the very first to develop an abstract trademark (Chase Bank, 1960), still in use today. In 1964 they designed the outstanding corporate identity of Mobil Oil, that is one of the most recognizable identities ever. From its foundation, the studio served major companies including Giorgio Armani, Barneys, Hearst, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), National Geographic, NBC (National Broadcasting Company), PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), Rockefeller, and others. Recently, Serge Haviv joined as a new partner and the firm changed to Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. Besides his design profession, Chermayeff is a talented illustrator artist and collagist. Many graphic pieces he made show a perfect balance of rational logics with imagination, featuring both abstract geometric shapes and figurative images. His collage works require a same sense of witty assemblage, where gathered information, like scraps of paper, stamps, and Polaroid photograph pictures combine as fragmented clues to a greater message. The Surrealist collages often take the shape of people, whose facial features are born of scraps and daily ephemera. They are amusing and infinitely thought-provoking; as Chermayeff has said, “Collages make it possible for everything to be something else.” Board overseers at Parsons School of Design and trustee at New School University from 1988 to 2002. Visiting professor at Cooper Union, University of California, and Kansas City Art Institute. He started making collages at the age of 17 to overcome his fear of not being able to draw. They are mostly made from day-to-day ephemera: envelopes, stamps, cigarette packs, train tickets, strips of coloured paper, found images, stones from the beach or squashed rusty cans. Inspired by Surrealism and organised by the artist’s hand and complemented with strong lines, they make faces, figures, fragmented narratives. Like all great designs, they evoke surprise and the pleasure of recognition. As he put it: “Design is all about seeing and making connections which are not so obvious.”President of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) from 1963 to 1966. Trustee of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) from 1965 to 1986. Member of the board of directors of IDCA (International Design Conference in Aspen) from 1968 to 1999. Board Director at Municipal Art Society of New York in 1972-76. Member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) since 1978. Board Director at Smithsonian Institution from 1988 to 1996. He was elected to the Hall of Fame of ADC New York (Art Directors Club) in 1982. Trustee of the Archives of America Art in 1987-90. Royal Designer for Industry since 1992. He was awarded numerous prizes including the Industrial Art Medal from AIA (American Institute of Architects) in 1967, the Philadelphia College of Art Gold Medal in 1971, AIGA Gold Medal (American Institute of Graphic Arts) in 1979, the President’s Fellow Award from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1981, the First International Design Award from Japan Design Foundation in 1983, the Yale Arts Medal in 1985, the Distinguished Service Award from New School University in 1999, the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal in 2002, the Tokyo Type Directors Club Award in 2004, and the National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2014. He also received a honorary doctorate in law from the Portland School of Art in 1981, and two honorary doctorates in fine arts from the Philadelphia University of Arts and the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington in 1991. Along with Seymour Chwast, Sid Chafetz, Saul Bass, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Ikko Tanaka...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

BLACK CHAIR (ORIGINAL GOUACHE)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original gouache and ink painting on paper. Hand signed and dated by Alexander Calder. Executed in 1969, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York,...
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1960s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Ink, Gouache, Paper

UNTITLED (GIRAFFE)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original crayon and pencil drawing on cut-out paper mounted on board. Hand signed with artist's initials CA. Executed in 1966, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder...
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1960s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Crayon, Pencil

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

And it Came to Pass : collage work of art
Located in New York, NY
Collage work of art by contemporary artist Jessica Rechner. This work of art is a collage made raw silk, acrylic, watercolor, and pencil on canvas. The artist uses these various mat...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Canvas, Silk, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil

Futura Skateboard Deck (Futura 2000)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Futura Skateboard Deck: Medium: Silkscreen on Maplewood Skateboard Deck. Year: 2021. Dimensions: 31 x 8 inches (38.1 x 22.9 cm). In original shrink wrap & box; excellent condition. Printed signature from an edition of unknown. Published by Futura Laboratories. Futura 2000...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Wood, Screen

Pink Village
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, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Hibiki XXXI, Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Hibiki XXXI Stunning shades of yellow are contrasted with a twist in this one-of-a-kind abstract 36.5X34.5” mixed media on canvas. Incorporates sanding of the surface to so...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Ascent : contemporary collage
Located in New York, NY
Elisabeth Page Purcell have mastered various forms of art one of which is collage. The artist’s collage works have evolved out of her interest in color and patterns. Elisabeth Page...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

'3D Surrealist Mixed Media Portrait, ' by Jeffrey Kronsnoble, Mixed Media
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 15.5" x 13.25" mixed media female portrait by artist Jeffrey Kronsnoble features the black and white profile of a women with a circular ...
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1960s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Graphite

Witness : contemporary collage
Located in New York, NY
Elisabeth Page Purcell have mastered various forms of art one of which is collage. The artist’s collage works have evolved out of her interest in color and patterns. Elisabeth Page...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Laid Bare : contemporary collage
Located in New York, NY
Rei Egusquiza uses collage and drawing to manipulate composition. Lines, patterns, orbs and masks obscure faces and bodies to unveil new themes, emotions and intent in subjects. Each...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Spin : contemporary collage
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary collage by a New York based artist Paul Antonio Szabo. Paul searches for interesting and eye-catching images to later use and arran...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Board

Surreal Collage: 'Watching'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Dance Girl : contemporary collage
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary collage by a New York based artist Paul Antonio Szabo. Paul searches for interesting and eye-catching images to later use and arrange them in new compositions. He crea...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

Surreal Collage: 'The Witness'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Mondo Cane : contemporary collage
Located in New York, NY
Rei Egusquiza uses collage and drawing to manipulate composition. Lines, patterns, orbs and masks obscure faces and bodies to unveil new themes, emotions and intent in subjects. Each newly synthesized work attempts to understand the reasons why we refrain from fully expressing our persona and drive. “Mondo Cane...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

'Bath of an Artist, ' by Tunde Darvay, Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 2014
By Tunde Darvay
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 32.75" x 61.75" acrylic on canvas painting by Romanian artist, Tunde Darvay, features a wood frame of the artists' making. The horizontal mystical landscape is brightly painted with predominant colors of reds, blues, and greens. Surrealistic figures and animals emerge from the landscape and float out into space through the painted frame. "It is a special piece because instead of painting on wood, as I usually do, here I am reaching back to a somewhat more traditional way of painting on canvas. It is a statement of aesthetic credo depicting an artist who having finished one of her paintings is going through a symbolic rebirth. She is going through a ritual purification by divesting herself of her old self and taking responsibility for her views, principles, and emotions as she is boldly facing a society that is very different from her. " - Tunde Darvay "Influenced by the unique rural landscapes of Transylvania, the place where I was born and have spent most of my life, my paintings emphasize the shadow-line between the organic and the inorganic. My aesthetic worldview is profoundly mythical: it depicts a world in which color breathes life into inanimate things in order to conjure up playful, suggestive associations along a broad spectrum of themes and forms. Houses have smiling or grinning doors, cheerful, winking, or teary windows, depending on their moody personalities. Chimneys protrude as if they were limbs. Trees hold hands and dance together, witnessed by the curious glance of birds, cats, and fish from behind the bushes...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Acrylic, Canvas

I have been looking for you
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
In Pedro's artwork, you will continuously find perspective, this is because the artist studied 3 years of architecture. incomprehensive, magical, and surreal elements will be present...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard

'Sunset on Grand Canyon, ' by Dragana Milovic, Acrylic on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 24" x 30" acrylic on canvas painting, 'Sunset on Grand Canyon,' by Dragana Milovic is a fantastical abstracted landscape inspired by the Grand Can...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

Daisy, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Steph Gimson displays a charming duck wearing a prairie bonnet. She paints giant chains linking to each other in the abstract ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Surrealist Intaglio Mixed Media Monotype on handmade paper
Located in Surfside, FL
This intaglio mixed media unique monoprint is on heavy hand made paper with beautiful deckled edges on all sides. it is a Surrealist image with nude figures and planets. This monoty...
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1990s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Handmade Paper

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

Israeli Mixed Media Painting, Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist Photo Collage
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract Surrealist Photo collage with painting. Mixed Media with or about Amos Keinan the Israeli Playwright and journalist. Yigal Tumarkin (also Igael Tumarkin) (born 1933) is an Israeli painter and sculptor. Biography Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Yigal Tumarkin) was born in Dresden, Germany. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theater actor and director. His mother, Berta Gurevitch and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, immigrated to Mandate Palestine when he was two. Tumarkin served in the Israeli Navy. After completing his military service, he studied sculpture in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel. Art career Igael Tumarkin, 1980 Among Tumarkin's best known works are the Holocaust memorial in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv and his sculptures commemorating fallen soldiers in the Negev. Tumarkin is also a theoretician and stage designer. In the 1950s, Tumarkin worked in East Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris. Upon his return to Israel in 1961, he became a driving force behind the break from the charismatic monopoly of lyric abstraction there. Tumarkin created assemblages of found objects, generally with violent Expressionist undertones and decidedly unlyrical color. Hebrew. His determination to "be different" influenced his younger Israeli colleagues. The furor generated around Tumarkin's works, such as the old pair of trousers stuck to one of his pictures, intensified the mystique surrounding him.Tumarkin has worked extensively in the medium of printmaking, producing over three hundred prints. He was encouraged by the print studios founded during those years in the USA, where prominent artists such as Jasper Jones...
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1960s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Silver Gelatin

Surrealist Intaglio Mixed Media Monotype on handmade paper
Located in Surfside, FL
This intaglio mixed media unique monoprint is on heavy hand made paper with beautiful deckled edges on all sides. it is a Surrealist image with nude figures and planets. This monoty...
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1990s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Handmade Paper

Surreal Collage: 'The Descendant'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Wearing Hope, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In an expressionist style, artist Anna Yoo paints three people in contemplative poses sitting adjacent to each other. She expresses hope through the distinct co...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

"Victorian Soiree, " Mixed Media Tile, 2007
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, combining aspects of painting, collage, and printmaking into her w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Ceramic, Paper, Acrylic

Albatross, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A seventh-grade algebra homework, a book page, acrylic paint, and charcoal constitute artist Libby Ramage's whimsical mixed-media piece. She affixes pages of he...

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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Myth, Muse and Metaphor #5, Mixed Media on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
“Myth, Muse and Metaphor #6” is a mixed media work of acrylic and collage on wood panel featuring creatures in a surreal situation. I take my inspiration from 18th century and me...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Judith & Donald
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is my adaptation of Gustav Klimt’s "Judith and the Head of Holofernes.” Klimt’s painting depicts the biblical character of Judit...
Category

2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Gold Leaf

3-D Wooden Still Life Assemblage, "Pop's Telescope"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original 3-D assemblage sculpture by San Diego artist, Paul Hobson. The artist uses acrylic on wood. Its dimensions are 7.5x5x9. A certificate of authenticity follows delivery of this piece. This is an exquisitely detailed still life surrealist scene of the inside of a telescope room. The artist puts the viewer inside room looking out a window. A telescope sits positioned out the window along with a desk, lamp, and complete bookshelf. Hobson is an artist experienced with paintings, sculpture, murals, graphic design and environmental art...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Wood, Acrylic

Contact
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Painting depicts contact, ambiguous as to whether it could be adverse contact or intimate contact between the focal characters.
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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India Ink, Oil

Surreal Collage: 'Mechanical Garden'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
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2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Surreal Sculpture: 'Queen Jane'
Located in New York, NY
Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of histo...
Category

2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Surreal Collage: 'Damselfly'
Located in New York, NY
'Combining found elements with those fashioned by my own hand, my work encompasses two- and three-dimensional collage as well as sculptural objects. Infused with a rich sense of hist...
Category

2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

"Ladies at Tea, " Mixed Media Tile, 2007
Located in Chicago, IL
Liverpool-based artist Pauline Hughes takes a fluid approach to her ceramic practice, combining aspects of painting, collage, and printmaking into her w...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media

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Ceramic, Paper, Acrylic

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