Jim Wise

"Acolyte" - surreal floral painting - clouds - Rene Magritte

2020

This painting features hues of red, yellow, blue and purple. This piece is framed in a light blue-grey wooden framed measuring 13 by 18 inches. Memphis-based painter, Susan Maakesta...

This painting features hues of yellow, blue and purple. This piece is framed in a light blue-grey wooden framed measuring 17 by 21 inches. Memphis-based painter, Susan Maakestad is ...

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...