Surrealist Landscape 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
The Symphony, Original Surrealist Painting, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
A sampling of the art motifs of Samuel Leopold.
Keywords: sampling, motifs, Samuel Leopold, moon, symphony
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Watermelon by the Sea" surrealistic still life on the beach, Florida
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Watermelon by the Sea" is a surrealistic still life on the beach. Ackrill takes inspiration from his beach surroundings in Florida.
Artist Bio
Anthony Ackrill was born in Alaska i...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Keeper's Concern" contemporary oil painting of classic old lighthouse
By Terry Elkins
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Keeper's Concern" is a contemporary oil painting of a classic old lighthouse in Northeastern United States.
Frame Dimensions 22.5 x 18.5in
After growing up in the American South and receiving his BFA from Sam Houston State University, and an MFA from the University of Houston in Texas, Terry...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"And Lovely, Learn by Going Where to Go" - Contemporary surreal acrylic painting
Located in Nyack, NY
Lotte Petricone's paintings blend representational and abstract imagery. The interplay of color, value, and texture creates a sense of space and movement throughout the image, while ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Steady in the Wind" - Contemporary surreal acrylic painting on wood panel
Located in Nyack, NY
Lotte Petricone's paintings blend representational and abstract imagery. The interplay of color, value, and texture creates a sense of space and movement throughout the image, while ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Beach Scene oil on canvas by Louis Wolchonok
Located in Hudson, NY
About the artist: Louis Wolchonok studied art at the National Academy of Design, City College of New York, Julian Academy in Paris, and the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Art. In addition ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green Capitel
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
The work Green Chapitel, explores the relationship between architecture and color, highlighting an architectural fragment: the column and the capital. The work uses in this case a gr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Santa Maria Della Salute, Surrealist Oil Painting by George Russin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Santa Maria Della Salute
George Russin, American (1910–2010)
Date: circa 1970
Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 14 x 11 in. (35.56 x 27.94 cm)
Frame Size: 20 x 17 inches
Category
1970s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Past is Present
Located in Kingston, WA
In this artwork, I sought to blend the boundaries between the tangible and ethereal—a surreal vista that pulls the observer into a dialogue between past and present. The ethereal fac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Just Fine
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Matheus is greatly influenced by the city he now calls home -- New York has long been the epicenter of fashion, hip hop, and street art, where he feels his interest in contemporary a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SALVADOR DE REGIL 1951 Surrealist Landscape w Figures, Hidden Faces & Nude Woman
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Oil on canvas board. Signed and dated lower left. Unframed.
Salvador de Regil’s 1951 surrealist oil painting transports viewers into a mesmerizing dreamscape where architecture and ...
Category
1950s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Love
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate indel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
$1,800
'Young Woman with Doves', AIC, Salon d'Automne, Paris, Art Deco
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A view of a landscape with a young woman shown seated and bathing her bare foot in a pool of water with white doves flying in a clouded, blue sky.
Signed verso 'Nura' for Nura Wood...
Category
1930s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Surrealistic Acrylic on Canvas Landscape "Alone on the Ice"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A detailed realistic/surrealistic landscape acrylic painting on large scale canvas.
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
MOUNTAINS, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Mountains“ 80 X 100cm, oil on canvas
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snail Woman Jungle Fantasy - Haitian Master like Henri Rousseau
Located in Miami, FL
A part woman and part snail, a nude young black woman on all fours has a sizeable yellow snail's shell emerging from her back. She inches through a dense, verdant forest abundant wit...
Category
1970s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fences Make Good Neighbours
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Exaggerated surreal landscape where a town is divided by fences. The left side is a town, the right side is 'other'.
Keywords: Twist, Braid, rolling hills, desert...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Capitel
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
The work Blue Chapitel, explores the relationship between architecture and color, highlighting an architectural fragment: the column and the capital. The work uses in this case a gre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
WASHINGTON MONUMENT
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by the artist. Canvas is stretched.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,600 Sale Price / item
57% Off
Butterfly, פַּרְפַּר, бабочка
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Butterflies and imagination are the ingredients to start a well-rounded life.
Keywords: Butterfly, aqueduct, beach, window
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amazon River
By Jorge Yances
Located in Nashville, TN
"Amazon River" is an oil-on-canvas painting by Colombian artist Jorge Yances. This piece is part of the artist's "Amazon" series. Yances reflects the Lati...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,300
ROADS_
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Die Reihe „Spiritualität“ ist abgeschlossen. Die Suche von O. Khrapachov endete jedoch nicht in einer Sackgasse. Seine Theorie der Weltentwicklung zeugt von der Unvollständigkeit des...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
TRANSITION_
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The work is printed in the catalog: "Alexander Khrapachov. Painting, drawing". – K: Sofia-A. – 2015. – 88 p.;
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
IMAGE_
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Oleksandr Khrapachov's algorithms are paradoxical. And here in front of our eyes are completely different works from the series "Reflections of the Subconscious." For the artist, it ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Industrial Scene Acid Glove, Drafsman's Pencil and Piping - Fortune Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Surrealist ad where a gloved human hand rises in pictorial height to the size of a chemical plant. Tension is created as Drafsman's Pencil is about to t...
Category
1960s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$16,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Iriza
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate indel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Elbow Against Grey Sky" Minimal Surrealist Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
White and grey structure on a grey sky with a few white clouds. Artist signed the work in the bottom right corner, as well as titled and dated the work on the back. Canvas is not fra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"10:00 Shadow" Minimal Abstract Surrealist Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Purple structure in a grey sky with a single white cloud. Artist signed the work in the bottom right corner, as well as titled and dated the work on the back. Canvas is not framed.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Monday: 3 Down, Method of Removing Hair Roots (12)
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Ben McLaughlin
Monday: 3 down, Method of removing hair roots (12), 2008
Oil on panel
6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (17.1 x 11.4 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
ARART, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Ararat“ 120 X 140cm, oil on canvas
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
WINTER BALANCE, Oil on Canvas
Located in Montreux, CH
Karen Shahverdyan „Winter balance“ 90 X 110cm, oil on canvas
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Witnessing the Hue
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate indel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
"Notturno Paulista" by Enzio Wenk, 2004 - Mixed Media on Canvas, Surrealism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Paulist nocturne"
Mixed media on canvas.
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Surrealist Landscape, Mountain with Nude Woman - Perls Gallery
Located in Miami, FL
A nude white woman gazes out and over a Giorgio de Chirico like surrealist landscape to an overly dramatic sunset with stylized orange rays. In the center of the composition is a cut-out of a mountain with a moat. In the extreme foreground is a silhouetted orange plane with a spiral of leaves. Along with the empty landscapes of de Chirico, it's possible that Frederick Haucke was influenced by Salvador Dalí " The Persistence of Memory" in 1931, and Dali's painting was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1934. In that painting, Dali, paints a vacant landscape doted with symbols from the unconscious. This painting by Frederick Haucke owes a debt to giants of the Surrealist movement but still, Haucke carves out his style. The shape of the nude's hair echoes the shape of the sunset. What the symbolism to the mountain is and the flower in the foreground we will leave to the viewer to speculate. It was shown at the very prestigious Pearls Gallery in New York City. Artists in the famous Perls' stable included Derain, Dufy, Rouault, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Pascin, Soutine, Chagall and Vlaminck. With a 1971 retrospective of Alexander Calder's work. This Haucke from the Perls Gallery...
Category
1940s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mischievous
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate indel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Highness
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate indel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Degratissimo Rainbow
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate indel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Narcissus
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- The idea of meditation and contemplation play a major role in the paintings of artist Craig Carlisle. His paintings articulate indel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Easter Egg Valley, Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Gonzalo Endara Crow
Located in Long Island City, NY
Easter Egg Valley
Gonzalo Endara Crow, Ecuadorian (1936–1996)
Date: 1994
Oil on Canvas, signed and dated lower right
Size: 30.5 x 45.75 in. (77.47 x 116.21 cm)
Category
1990s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Danger
Located in New York, NY
Dionisios Fragias is a New York -based artist born on the Greek island of Kefalonia and raised in New York City. He is the protege of the artist Jeff Koons whose years-long mentorshi...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Steel, Stainless Steel
Price Upon Request
The Sailing Ship, Surrealist Painting by Gonzalo Endara Crow
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gonzalo Endara Crow, Ecuador (1936 - 1996)
Title: The Sailing Ship
Date: 1982
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso
Size: 27 x 35 in. (68.58 x 88.9 cm)
Category
1990s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
His Private Island
By Kevin Sloan
Located in Saint Louis, MO
His Private Island
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 54 inches (152.4 x 137.2 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Navel Arch
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas.
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Airlines Down
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on canvas.
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Surreal Landscape with an American Underslung and Rolls Royce
By Siegfried Reinhardt
Located in Missouri, MO
Siegfried Reinhardt
"Surreal Landscape and the Artist with his American Underslung and Rolls Roys" 1948/50
Oil on Panel
Signed and Dated Twice Lower Right
Panel Size: approx. 11 x 24 inches
Framed Size: approx. 13.5 x 26.5 inches
Siegfried Gerhard Reinhardt born July 31, 1925 in Eydkuhnen, Germany, died October 24, 1984 in St. Louis, Missouri was a prolific artist and teacher based for most of his career, 1955-1970 at Washington University in St. Louis, where he had taken his Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature in 1950. He was also a prominent member of the St. Louis Artists Guild. He was the son of Otto Frederick and Minni (Kukat) Reinhardt, and emigrated with them in 1928 (naturalized in 1936). His best-known work is perhaps the series of murals he executed at Lambert International Airport illustrating the history of aviation. He was a pioneer in combining elements of realism and surrealism in a style known sometimes as superrealism. From 1949 to 1984 he worked with Emil Frei in the design and execution of stained glass windows, including the (1960) Easter Window in the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, in Sunset Hills, Missouri, of which Reinhardt said:
"The 'flame' symbolizes the Holy Spirit as it descended in tongues of fire over the heads of the disciples in the miracle of the upper room in the presence of the Lord Jesus...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Surrealist landscape paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Surrealist landscape paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add landscape paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Rudolf Kosow, Henry David Potwin, Marta Rynkiewicz, and Craig Carlisle. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Surrealist landscape paintings, so small editions measuring 4 inches across are also available. Prices for landscape paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $150 and tops out at $200,000, while the average work sells for $3,097.