Surrealist Figurative Paintings
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 Figurative Painting, "Repair"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original surrealist figurative drawing by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley.
Its dimensions are 24x72. It is unframed.
The a...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Konigsberg shout. 2006, oil on canvas, 74x85 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Konigsberg shout. 2006, oil on canvas, 74x85 cm
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,719 Sale Price
20% Off
Puppet With the Green Eyes Contemporary Surrealist Painting Ellen Steinfeld
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern surreal oil painting by American artist Ellen Steinfeld titled, "Puppet with the Green Eyes"
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal Figures - figurative painting, surreal painting
Located in New York, NY
This early surreal figurative work by Jacob El Hanani was done in 1971. It is ink on paper. Measurements of the paper are 35X25 cm. It is dated and hand signed in Hebrew in the botto...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink
Blue Monday - figurative painting
Located in New York, NY
This landscape painting by Henryk was done in 2022.
It will ship from the artists studio in Poland.
More about Henryk Laskowska:
Henryk Laskowski has been working as a graphic design...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Man in a wicker chair
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
Natalya Nesterova has created her own enormous world and has found her own angle of vision in the reality that surrounds us. As an artist, she sees this world in a way that we cannot. The air of mystery permeates Nesterova's works; the surrealistic impulse is definitely present in her paintings. But neither it or any other terminologically defined influence predominates over the freedom and talent of the personality in choosing an independent style and organization of creative ideas. Natalya Nesterova is recognized as one of the most important and internationally acclaimed contemporary Russian artists.
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carmelo Niño, Gran arlequín, 2019, 200 x 100 cm, 78.7 x 39.3 in.
By Carmelo Niño
Located in Miami, FL
Carmelo Niño
Gran arlequín, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 100 cm
78.7 x 39.3 in.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the ar...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Roses Are Not Only Red" (2022) By Ifeoluwa Alade, Original Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ifeoluwa Alade ( Nigeria based) "Roses Are Not Only Red" is an original, handmade acrylic painting that depicts a female model with a rose and butterfly cast in a deep red glow.
Ar...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Boxing Glove (red boxing glove surréaliste brown coat oil painting boxer)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe bold original painting on canvas depicting the vivid portrait of a red boxing glove held by an anonymous figure in a coat.
keywords; boxing glove...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the garden. 1970s Cardboard, tempera, 59x59 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In the garden. 1970s Cardboard, tempera, 59x59 cm
Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator.
Born i...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Tempera, Cardboard
Tree of life. Angel in red dress with lamb. 2002, canvas, oil, 140x110 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tree of life. 2002, canvas, oil, 140x110 cm
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
4579 Transformaciones 3, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Andres Vivo
Located in Yardley, PA
A sensitive study of our society.Belongs to my human and social behaviour series. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Planting, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Michael Wedge shows two figures installing parking meters in a mysterious landscape. A symbol of city streets stands out in the middle of a verdant fie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Danubia, Symbolic Painting of Two Headed Goddess Female Nude, Green Sepia Tones
Located in Chicago, IL
Oliver Hazard Benson
Danubia
acrylic on panel
10h x 8w in
25.40h x 20.32w cm
OB0107
Oliver Hazard’s paintings are produced directly from his imagination and deals with a mixture of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Untitled
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful watercolor painting by the artist Roberto Fabelo.
Roberto Fabelo (born 1951 Camagüey, Cuba) is a contemporary painter, sculptor, and illustrator. Born in Guáimaro, Camagüey, Fabelo studied at The National Art School and at the Superior Art Institute of Havana. He was a professor and a jury member for very important national and international visual arts contests. The Cuban state awarded him a medal for National Culture and the Alejo Carpentier medal for his outstanding artistic career. Fabelo’s art consists of nude women, who often appear with bird-like features, including a beak and wings. He drew in textbooks and created figures out of the pictures already in the textbook. Another example of his art was watercolor markers used to draw on silk embroidered fabric. His work is exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, and in the Cuban embassy in Mexico. His 2009 sculpture of a group of human-headed cockroaches can be found climbing one of the walls of the Havana Fine Arts Museum, entitled Survival. He also illustrated a 2007 edition of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel Cien años de...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$25,000
Our Mysteries (Diptych)
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
Our Mysteries is a diptych in oil on linen, where symbolism and texture come together to evoke deep emotions. With its panoramic dimensions of 200x81 cm, this work unfolds across two...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Painting "Choose " by Ellen Steinfeld
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern surreal oil painting by American artist Ellen Steinfeld titled, "Choose" from the artist 2004 solo exhibition at The Castellani Art Museum.
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Colorful Portrait of a Couple, Family at Play
By Dan Solojoff
Located in Surfside, FL
Dan Solojoff, Russian (1908 - 1994)
Daniil Andreyevich Solojef born in St. Petersburg on February 27 (February 14) 1908 and died on 21 in Paris 1, is a poet, painter and illustrator...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache, Board
Celestial Metamorphosis -Nude Sci-Fi Woman becomes a Flower in Outer Space
Located in Miami, FL
Legendary illustrator Wilson McLean depicts "Celestial Bodies" of all sorts floating in the inky black expanse of space. This is a story about a transition from a human to plant. A nude female holds a flower and she becomes the flower she holds while she floats in an inky black void framed by planets. This is a story about a transition from a human to a plant. The painting looks better in person... A Stellar Experience.
During the 1970s and 1980s, McLean was a dominant force in American Illustration with his work gracing the covers...
Sports Illustrated, Time, The Saturday Evening Post, Look, Playboy...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Large Surrealist Symbolist Painting, Peeking Child, Moorish Architectural Arches
By Baruch Elron
Located in Surfside, FL
Large Surrealist Symbolist Painting With a peeking, peering figure of a child dressed in red in a typical Middle Eastern Architectural setting. (unframed 28.75X39.5 inches)
Baruch Elron (1934–2006) was an Israeli painter best known for his unique Fantastic Realist style rich in symbols and allegories.
Baruch Elron (Barbu Teodorescu) was born in Bucharest, in a family of Sephardic Jews.
Baruch Elron studied Painting at the Nicolae Grigorescu Fine Arts Academy in Bucharest. Among his teachers were the great artists Corneliu Baba...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
4664 Iwant more, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Andres Vivo
Located in Yardley, PA
The society is requiring more and more` the goverments,religions,minorities the preservers.All pushing to their sides. Inspired by the art works of Francisco Goya :: Painting :: Sur...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Architecture in Plenitude
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
Architecture in Plenitude is an intriguing and evocative visual representation that pays homage to the historical development of architecture and its significance in the human experi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Getting on Horse 4, Florance, italy
Located in Hudson, NY
These 4 oil on canvas paintings are in a set of 4 for $8000.00.
“Friends of Friends” explores a playful world where dreams and reality meld together to create surreal moments. Wh...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sheba Raven Cloak, Hatshepsut - Original Painting of Egyptian Goddess Figure
Located in Chicago, IL
Oliver Hazard’s paintings are produced directly from his imagination and deals with a mixture of imagery he has witnessed in his travels, dreams, and read about in literature. The ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Escapee (porcelain bambi vintage art lady brown earth tones surrealist painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In "Escapee", a huge ceramic figure of a bambi runs away from its owner in the middle of a strange and threatening landscape. This painting depicts a completely absurd situation that...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snapshots
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Snapshots" is a modern surrealist oil on canvas painting by Irving Norman in 1986. The artwork is 40 x 90 inches and 41 3/8 x 91 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches with the frame, weighing less than 50 lbs. It is signed and dated lower right, "I.N. '68".
Norman's surrealist paintings transport viewers into dystopian realms where human figures meld with machinery, creating haunting landscapes of industrialized chaos and existential reflection. This painting uses a series of vignettes or "snapshots" of human couples in various states of health and vigor. The grotesque nature of some of the bodies is juxtaposed in the bright swimsuits as children play under an ominous sky...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$150,000
"Silver Cord, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Amanda Seckington's "Silver Cord" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a vibrant purple and red eye and face.
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Untitled, Figurative, Flower Pot, Oil on Canvas by Modern Indian Artist-In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Anita Roy Chowdhury - Untitled (Flower Pot)
Oil on Canvas
12 x 15 inches, 2007
(Unframed & Delivered)
Style :
Her works manifest human figures, nude or draped in different poses and...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Life in a Bottle" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Sybiline's (CAN based) "Life in a Bottle" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts pink Peonies blooming in a green vase as a pink butterfly swirls around the petals dreami...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
L'Angelo Caduto, 2003
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Supplicant, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "Supplicant" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude woman with horns resting her head gently on a nude woman's knees, the fleshy tones of her face...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Pocket Full of Dreams", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Tiffany Dae's (US based) "Pocket Full of Dreams" is a original, handmade oil painting that depicts a feminine figure surrounded by darkness, gently holding...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Sea and Stars", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Tiffany Dae's (US based) "Sea and Stars" is a original, handmade oil painting that depicts an African American face and a Caucasian face transposed over th...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Investigation (bat fox bat oil painting surrealism figurative animal vintage)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In "Investigation I", banal, everyday things meet in this painting to create an unusual, strange, absurd and ironical situation derived by the disproportional scale size of things.
keywords; surrealism, animals, bat, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic composition, giant bat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Beak" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Joshua Lawyer's (US based) "Beak" is an oil painting that depicts a figure with her face in profile with a yellow triangle that resembles a beak.
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
The Guardian Of The Religion
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
"El guardian de la religuia" The guardian of the religion 2008
Oil on canvas signed and dated, will be frame before shipping.
Isaac Crespo's Cuban artist born 1965. His drawings and ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Ink
"Ethan in the Purr" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Nathan Durfee's "Ethan in the Purr" is an oil painting that depicts Ethan, a boy with a cat nose and whiskers drawn on his face, surrounded by stuffed animals.
Artist bio:
Nathan...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Long Road", Surreal Desert Landscape Painting
By Martin Dreyer
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist style painting painted with casein paint. Titled and dated by the artist as well as signed. Painting was shown in many exhibits around Texas. Framed in a rustic wooden fra...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
The sun. Portrait. 1973. Cardboard, oil, 33x46.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The sun. 1973. Cardboard, oil, 33x46.5 cm
Woman portrait in orange colors
Vladimir Borisovich Glushenkov (May 21, 1948, Riga - December 26, 2009, Riga.) - painter, graphic artist, poet, translator.
Born in Riga in a Russian-Polish-German family.
Vladimir Glushenkov...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
$1,767 Sale Price
85% Off
Who Are These Angels CXLV, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A mystical figure emerges from the divide of light and darkness. In this ethereal piece by artist Naoko Paluszak, the entity appears to be made of the same energy as where it came from. Naoko created both color balance and a robust contrasting composition that evokes strong emotion. Part of Naoko's signature Who Are These Angels series...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Couple (oil painting surrealist red hair woman man portrait figurative flesh
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The significant size difference plays with the perception of the viewer, perhaps confused, one asks
oneself the question, if what is shown much larger, is also much more important .....
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Affected Memory , Oil, Mixed Media, Hyperrealism Style of Modern Cuban Art
Located in Houston, TX
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Affected Memory shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art that is now available to art market. Affected Memory is one of many of the hyperrealism paintings by the artist. Brian Sanchez...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas
$5,100 Sale Price
25% Off
What is Behind, Oil, Mixed Media, Hyperrealism, Modern Cuban Art, Surreal
Located in Houston, TX
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What is Behind (Lo que esta atras) shows the hyperrealism of modern Cuban art that is now available to the world art market. What is Behind is one of many of the hyperrealism paintings by the artist. Brian Sanchez...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
On Road (surreal dark mauve oil painting man butterflies magic Realism)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Rudolf Kosow’s On Road is a hauntingly poetic exploration of light, transition, and the unknown. A solitary figure stands at the edge of a glowing precipice, his gaze lowered towards...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Heli Hatchlings, Surreal Oil Painting - Giant Chameleons Crab Apples Helicopter
Located in Chicago, IL
The smiling figures in the helicopter, hatching from a frozen crab-apple, have false hopes that they are on a fun adventure, unaware of the imminent danger- they are about the chameleon’s prey. Fortune can turn on a dime. Such is the subject of Christopher Klein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Stranger (dog soldier cop surrealist crime scene oil painting yellow tape)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Absurd scenery in the middle of nowhere: a case for the special forces, inexplicable and uncanny
has emerged and must therefore be "arrested"...
key...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
L'abbraccio, 2020
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his career, Falconi began teaching and drawing at the middle school in his city, refining his technique by copying a thousand paintings and drawings, bringing himself to an understanding of the secrets of technique and color behind the Great Masters of every century.
In 1975 he abandoned teaching to devote himself entirely to painting. His method of working developed in pictorial cycles over the years in the most exposed and prestigious Italian galleries...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Repose (sleeping beauty woman hair portrait figurative oil painting flesh tones
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In this painting, the painter tries to portray the young sleeping, lying and oversized figure of a woman as part of the landscape. Who likes to be this person and what is she doing i...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nereid - Nude Female Figure with Elongated Limbs in Outstretched Yoga Pose
Located in Chicago, IL
Nereid is a sea nymph, a female spirit of sea waters. She symbolizes everything that is beautiful and kind about the sea. Her melodious voice sing as she dances and twists on a sea ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
"Cabin 7, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Gregory Block's (US based) "Cabin 7" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a deteriorating cabin wall melding with a sky.
Gregory was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man and Time
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Man and Time" is an American surrealist oil on canvas painting by Irving Norman in 1986. The artwork is 58 x 30 inches and 59 1/8 x 31 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches with the frame, weighing le...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$100,000
"Spermy and Licorice Popsicle Meet the Club" Bubble Surrealist Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Three made up characters named Spermy, Licorice, and Club. Painting is mostly grey toned with yellow and orange hints. Artist signed the canvas on the bottom right corner, as well as...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
324 The red devil, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Andres Vivo
Located in Yardley, PA
Belongs to my art works of the 90´s . Inspired by the obscure,tragical and dramatic artworks of the spanish master Francisco Goya. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
MusCATteer - Surreal Rural Scene, Hyper-realistic Original Oil Painting, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Juxtaposing and altering unrelated natural objects with the machinations of man to create a scene of an impossible surreal world, the viewer enters the mind of artist Christopher Klein...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Capture (girl soldier surrealist oil painting sleeping child portrait figurative
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Trapped, imprisoned and guarded - are there reasons to do so? Maybe "She" is dangerous, or
possibly quite harmless, she is dreaming and serene.
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil p...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bold Eagle Figurative Abstract
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Bold Eagle Figurative Abstract
Artist signed lower right corner, : 54 X 68 X 1.25 in.
Yankel (Jacob) Ginzburg (Russian/American, Born 1945). An original Surrealist acrylic painting ...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
"A Forgone Conclusion, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Cheifetz's "A Forgone Conclusion" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a sloping yellow hill of a park dotted with people as the city in the background is confron...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Oil on Canvas French Signed Alain Cadoret Surrealist Painting, 1975
Located in Vicoforte, IT
French painting dated 1975. Oil on canvas artwork, first canvas, depicting a surrealist subject with a strong visual impact. Nicely sized and pleasantly decorated painting, signed an...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Loud Mouth - colorful surrealist portrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
"Loud Mouth" is a surrealist multi-media sculptural painting made with acrylic, paper, fabric, beads on a canvas and wood. The figures' mouth, made from wood, extends past the painting bringing the painting to life. The lashes on the figure are extended with thread which has been sewn into the canvas.
INSPIRATION BEHIND THE WORK - "'Loud Mouth' was brought to life via a string of impulses similar to the ones that may lead to someone being pegged as a "loudmouth." A "loudmouth" is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as "a person who tends to talk too much in an offensive or tactless way." In my experience, however, "loudmouth" is usually used to describe someone who fits into only the first part of that definition (talks "too much"), and as a result — regardless of what they're saying — is perceived as too loud. Surely, of course, there are also those that fall into the offensive or tactless zone, but this painting isn't about them. This painting is about those who are so busy being their wonderful selves, they don't have the time or care to consider how others perceive them. It is a celebration of being genuine and sticking out past expected boundaries because you are confident in the worth of your spill-over."
- Artist Megan Dune...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Wood, Paper, Acrylic
Surrealist figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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