Guo Shu Ling

Mysterious & Romantic Nature Scenes Pink, White In Abstract Expression

2017

Xanadu 竹外桃源 Chinese artist Gao Xiao Yun is inspired by nature scenes of Suzhou city, China. He illustrates sceneries are filled with an unlimited sense of time and nature light...

Water and air are main elements in Gao Xiao Yun’s painting. He illustrates Suzhou water township in different seasons and times with his strong sense of color, lights and materials. ...

Antique American modern surrealist ladnscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1987. Signed. Image size 18.5L x 218.5H. Housed in a period modern frame.

'Characters in a Surrealist Landscape', oil on canvas, by Lucien Coutaud (1931). A couple entwine with the male character seemingly in grief, the female not returning with a comforting embrace. In the distant landscape a sole character meanders. This painting seems to be a creation of the artist's dreams, perhaps reflecting events in his personal life. It seems there is a relationship problem. In the world of Surrealists, there is a focus on the unconscious mind through Freudian methods of free association, trance-like states or dreams. Some Surrealists practiced psychic 'automatism' which was automatic writing or drawing, turning off the conscious mind and producing streams of words or images directly from the unconscious. In unlocking the unconscious in this way, Surrealism was individually expressed (Ref. 'The Short Story of Art...