Tiger Lillies Landscape
View Similar Items
Johnny KarwanTiger Lillies Landscape2018
2018
About the Item
Artist Comments
My inspiration for this piece in a series of floral landscapes, is the contrast of a bucolic and dreamy sepia landscape with a colorful and vibrant flower foreground. This is painted on a birch panel in many transparent layers of acrylic paint that allows portions of the grain to show through.
About the Artist
Johnny Karwan’s body of work is best described as stylized realism on birch panel. The wood grain shows through in each composition, which somehow feels simultaneously traditional and surreal. “The texture and grain of the wood that shows through the transparent layers of paint, makes its own statement in a way, as the fingerprint of its natural origins that persist beyond the transformation from tree to painted surface,” says the artist. Johnny is inspired by natural history and objects of the past, which contributes a vintage feel to the work. Johnny’s studio is based in his 1904 Edwardian flat in the historic Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.
Tiger Lillies Landscape
Johnny Karwan
Acrylic painting on wood
Stained wood edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2018
24 in. h x 18 in. w x 1.5 in. d
3 lbs. 6 oz.
- Creator:Johnny Karwan
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:Tiger Lillies Landscape. Johnny Karwan. Acrylic painting on wood. Stained wood edges. Ready to hang. One-of-a-kind. Signed on front and back.
- Gallery Location:San Francisco, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 602041stDibs: LU92213700012
- Desert Landscape, Oil PaintingBy Julia HackerLocated in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In this piece, artist Julia Hacker creates a whimsical and vivid dreamscape of a desert. "It invites you to lose yourself in its charming portrayal of nature," ...Category21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist More Art
MaterialsOil
- Time I, Oil PaintingLocated in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Guigen Zha presents elements of Chinese cultural relics set upon a surrealist beach. A Tang Sancai, a type of pottery from the Tang Dynasty, sits prominently with its gilded handles. Together on the steps are an embroidered shoe worn by women and a pomegranate flower in full bloom. He paints a snail walking into a mural depicting cultural history. "The piece presents a reminder of the past and how time flies," says Guigen.About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: healing, landscape, seascape, floral, poetic, cultural relics, surrealism, Dali...
Category21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
MaterialsOil
- One Blossom One World. Peony & Deer I, Oil PaintingLocated in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"A flower is small, but it is also a world of its own," says artist Guigen Zha. He paints a surreal image of a flower growing from bud to bloom. A parallel metaphor of human life from birth to death plays out in the scene. Guigen displays a peony, a deer, and a human expressing the interconnection and interdependence of all things in a utopian world.About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: healing, peony, deer, animal, belief, landscape, floral, poetic, oilpaint, flower, surrealism, figure, nude, surrealism, flora, oil painting, green
One Blossom One World...
Category21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist More Art
MaterialsOil
- Good Things, Oil PaintingBy Diane FlickLocated in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
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...Category21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist More Art
MaterialsOil
- Windmills, Oil PaintingBy Jose H. AlvarengaLocated in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
On this piece I painted a little Dutch ceramic windmill souvenir with a small Delft blue windmill drawing. In the background there's another windmill scene: a copy of Jacob Van Ruisdael...Category21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
MaterialsOil
- The Think Piece, Oil PaintingBy Diane FlickLocated in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
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...Category21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Animal Paintings
MaterialsOil
- Origin: How God and I Created the WorldBy Tony SmithLocated in Salt Lake City, UT"Origin: How God And I Created The World" acrylic on canvas, 45.5 x 61.5 inches (unframed), $9,500 Tony Smith’s paintings are works in motion. They are tho...Category
1990s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Acrylic
- Surrealist still-life acrylic on board painting surrealism UbedaLocated in Barcelona, BarcelonaGustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Still life - Acrylic panel Acrylic measurements 61x91 cm. Frameless. The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes from a...Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic, Board
$747 Sale Price24% Off - 'Breakfast'. Surrealist Acrylic on Canvas.Located in Cotignac, FRSurrealist contemporary tablescape, acrylic on canvas by Scottish artist Frank McLean Docherty R.S.W. Signed and dated bottom left. This piece is wonder...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Still-life Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic, Canvas
- Surrealist Trompe L'oeil, Lush RosesLocated in Surfside, FLTrompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the eye",) is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Forced perspective is a comparable illusion in architecture. Though the phrase, originates in the Baroque period, when it refers to perspectival illusionism, trompe-l'œil dates much further back. It was (and is) often employed in murals. Instances from Greek and Roman times are known, for instance in Pompeii. A typical trompe-l'œil mural might depict a window, door, or hallway, intended to suggest a larger room. A version of an oft-told ancient Greek story concerns a contest between two renowned painters. Zeuxis (born around 464 BC) produced a still life painting so convincing that birds flew down to peck at the painted grapes. A rival, Parrhasius, asked Zeuxis to judge one of his paintings that was behind a pair of tattered curtains in his study. Parrhasius asked Zeuxis to pull back the curtains, but when Zeuxis tried, he could not, as the curtains were included in Parrhasius's painting—making Parrhasius the winner. With widespread fascination with perspective drawing in the Renaissance, Italian painters of the late Quattrocento such as Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) and Melozzo da Forlì (1438–1494), began painting illusionistic ceiling paintings, generally in fresco, that employed perspective and techniques such as foreshortening to create the impression of greater space for the viewer below. This type of trompe l'œil illusionism as specifically applied to ceiling paintings is known as di sotto in sù, meaning "from below, upward" in Italian. The elements above the viewer are rendered as if viewed from true vanishing point perspective. Well-known examples are the Camera degli Sposi in Mantua and Antonio da Correggio's (1489–1534) Assumption of the Virgin in the Duomo of Parma. Similarly, Vittorio Carpaccio (1460–1525) and Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1440 – before 1516) added small trompe-l'œil features to their paintings, playfully exploring the boundary between image and reality. For example, a fly might appear to be sitting on the painting's frame, or a curtain might appear to partly conceal the painting, a piece of paper might appear to be attached to a board, or a person might appear to be climbing out of the painting altogether—all in reference to the contest of Zeuxis and Parrhasius. In a 1964 seminar, the psychoanalyst and theorist Jacques Lacan...Category
20th Century Surrealist Still-life Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic
- Gerard Tunney, Dancers with Fans, Original surreal paintingBy Gerard TunneyLocated in Deddington, GBA group of dancers chat and gossip using the fans to emphasise l their reactions The triangles of the fans are echoed throughout the painting; in the dancers’ feet, the dancers’ arms...Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic
- Gerard Tunney, Ten Myths Eros and lovers, Original figurative paintingBy Gerard TunneyLocated in Deddington, GBEros the traditional symbols of love hovers over two lovers as they embrace at night. The painting is meant to suggest the idealised bliss of being in love “Most of my work is influe...Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
MaterialsAcrylic