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Style: Surrealist
Period: 1980s
Morning glory. Surrealistic artwork. Oil on canvas, 65x92 cm
By Leonid Purygin
Located in Riga, LV
Bizarre scene of Lady in bed dreaming socially diverse erotic activities.
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tooth Ache
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trojan Cat, surrealist, fantasy, whimsical, cat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil
COMPANEROS
By Carlos Manuel Salazar Ramirez
Located in Los Angeles, CA
CARLOS MANUEL SALAZAR RAMIREZ
"COMPANEROS"
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, SIGNED
COSTA RICA, DATED 1989
16 X 24 INCHES
Carlos Manuel Salazar Ramírez
Born 1954
Ramírez is a artist born i...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Woman Sitting In The Chair
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Woman in the chair, heavy oil impasto on canvas framed.
Elisabeth Sabala Abelló (Barcelona, 1956). She studied industrial design at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona and has a degree in Fine Arts, a specialty in painting, from the Central University of the same city. Sabala is a convinced figurative who has given all the prominence of her work to the representation of the human being in its most trivial aspects. At a time when the artistic landscape extols abstract and conceptual art focused on the great universal themes, Sabala continues to focus on the small defects that bring us closer to the collective and the human. The artistic progression of Sabala takes place, at first, from a bleak period to another vitalist and, later, from the representation of isolated characters (In the super, Reading the stories of the paintings) to the recreation of great concentrations of its peculiar individuals characterized in an endless number of situations (The Great Dance, The Girls of the Choir). Sabala's work is vital and touching, as well as scathing and satirical: it confronts its characters in the most varied situations, capturing, at the same time, the viewer's attention with an unusual juxtaposition of colors that do not seek chromatic harmony, but expression and movement through matter. In 1980 he won the first prize of a painting of the City of Castelldefels, and the following year he debuted individually in the Caixa Catalunya room, in Barcelona. In 1984, she was selected for the XXIII Joan Miró Drawing Prize, taking part in a traveling exhibition in Japan. Sabala won the first prize in the International Painting Competition of Pollença (Mallorca) in 1985, and the following year she took part in a collective held at the Martano gallery in Turin. That same year of 1986 she obtained the Scholarship of Plastic Arts of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He continues to hold personal shows in Barcelona, Mallorca, Madrid, and Italy, and in 1989 he debuted in New York with an individual exhibition held at the Scott Alan Gallery. Since then she will reiterate his presence both in that city and in Paris, Berlin, Monaco, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Hong Kong, etc. His works have been present at Interactive, ARCO, Art Forum, Art Jonction and New Art, as well as in various Spanish museums.
• Studies: Fine Arts, University of Barcelona
• Industrial Design, School of Arts and Crafts, Barcelona
Main exhibitions
Spain:
• Barcelona:
◦ Arcs & Cracks, 1990, 1992, Anna Benach 1993, Helena Ramos 1993
◦ Maria Jose Castellvi 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001 “a wedding is a wedding” + Performance “Ella”
◦ 2004, 2006 “Fashion satisfaction” + Performance
◦ 2008 “Women's weapons”
• Girona:
◦ Helena Ramos 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
◦ Cyprus Art...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Playing Tennis
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Woman playing tennis, heavy oil impasto on canvas framed.
Elisabeth Sabala Abelló (Barcelona, 1956). She studied industrial design at the School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona and has a degree in Fine Arts, a specialty in painting, from the Central University of the same city. Sabala is a convinced figurative who has given all the prominence of her work to the representation of the human being in its most trivial aspects. At a time when the artistic landscape extols abstract and conceptual art focused on the great universal themes, Sabala continues to focus on the small defects that bring us closer to the collective and the human. The artistic progression of Sabala takes place, at first, from a bleak period to another vitalist and, later, from the representation of isolated characters (In the super, Reading the stories of the paintings) to the recreation of great concentrations of its peculiar individuals characterized in an endless number of situations (The Great Dance, The Girls of the Choir). Sabala's work is vital and touching, as well as scathing and satirical: it confronts its characters in the most varied situations, capturing, at the same time, the viewer's attention with an unusual juxtaposition of colors that do not seek chromatic harmony, but expression and movement through matter. In 1980 she won the first prize of a painting of the City of Castelldefels, and the following year she debuted individually in the Caixa Catalunya room, in Barcelona. In 1984, she was selected for the XXIII Joan Miró Drawing Prize, taking part in a traveling exhibition in Japan. He won the first prize of the International Painting Competition of Pollença (Mallorca) in 1985, and the following year he took part in a collective held at the Martano gallery in Turin. That same year of 1986 she obtained the Scholarship of Plastic Arts of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Sabala continues to hold personal shows in Barcelona, Mallorca, Madrid, and Italy, and in 1989 she debuted in New York with an individual exhibition held at the Scott Alan Gallery. Since then she will reiterate his presence both in that city and in Paris, Berlin, Monaco, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Hong Kong, etc. His works have been present at Interactive, ARCO, Art Forum, Art Jonction and New Art, as well as in various Spanish museums.
• Studies: Fine Arts, University of Barcelona
• Industrial Design, School of Arts and Crafts, Barcelona
Main exhibitions
Spain:
• Barcelona:
◦ Arcs & Cracks, 1990, 1992, Anna Benach 1993, Helena Ramos 1993
◦ Maria Jose Castellvi 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001 “a wedding is a wedding” + Performance “Ella”
◦ 2004, 2006 “Fashion satisfaction” + Performance
◦ 2008 “Women's weapons”
• Girona:
◦ Helena Ramos 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995
◦ Cyprus Art...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
The Precious Pearls - Original Oil on Canvas, Handsigned
Located in Paris, FR
Modesto ROLDAN
The Precious Pearls
Original Oil on Canvas
Handsigned on the bottom left
On canvas 24 x 30 cm (c. 9.5 x 12 inch)
Presentend in golden wood frame 33 x 37 cm (c. 13 x 1...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
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
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
It's All So Distrurbing
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Robert Gadomski's paintings, which utilize various techniques, are of natural and urban settings, most inspired by South Side neighborhoods such as Marquette Park, where he grew up, ...
Category
Surrealist 1980s 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
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mask of the Sun, Oil Painting by Nina Usacheva-Green
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nina Usacheva-Green, Russian XXth
Title: Mask of the Sun
Year: 1986
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 50 in. x 42 in. (127 cm x 106.68 cm)
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil
El Llano en Llamar, Acrylic and Watercolor Painting by J. Benito Zamora
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: J. Benito Zamora, Mexican (1951 - )
Title: El Llano en Llamar
Year: 1986
Medium: Acrylic and Watercolor on paper, signed l.r.
Size: 22 in. x 30 i...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Acrylic
Flores Silvestres, Framed Acrylic Painting, 1983
By Froylán Ojeda
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Froylan Ojela, Mexican
Title: Flores Silvestres
Year: 1983
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed, dated and titled verso
Size: 28.25 x 25 inches
Frame Size: 36 x 28.5 inches
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sirin and Alkonost, Surreal Oil Painting by Nina Usacheva-Green
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nina Usacheva-Green, Russian
Title: Sirin and Alkonost
Year: 1981
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 40 x 29 inches
Frame: 49 x 38 inches
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Manipulation
Located in Long Island City, NY
De Es Schwertberger's captivating oil painting features several hands supporting each other while the topmost hand holds a small clutch of eggs.
Artist: De Es Schwertberger (Dieter...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
La Mujer Isla The Island Woman Mexican Surrealist Painting
By Enrique Chavarría
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
The Island Woman (La Mujer Isla)
Artist signed and titled.
Enrique Chavarría (1927-1998) was a Mexican painter and neo-surrealist, whose fantastic imagery carries forward the work of the Mexican Surrealists. He created hundreds of easel-sized oil paintings on masonite and numerous smaller works. For four decades his principal patron was Bryna Prensky, an American gallery owner from Florida who moved to Mexico City in 1954. She bought most of Chavarría’s known works for her gallery and her own collection.
Prensky said she often found Chavarría in his pajamas at mid-day. He read widely and painted dreamlike images that reflect his wide-ranging scholarly interests. Much of his work is thought to have been inspired by poetry, especially the writings of André Breton, Paul Éluard, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Valéry; by the classic surrealism of Salvador Dalí; and by the paintings of Mexican neo-surrealist artists Remedios Varo...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Cabeza
By Rodolfo Opazo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rodolfo Opazo, Chilean (1935 - )
Title: Cabeza
Year: 1983
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. and verso
Size: 39 x 32 inches
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Kepmovr, Modernist Painting by Ernst Neizvestny
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil painting by Ernst Neizvestny from 1984. An abstract modernist depiction of two figures in a dramatically expressive scene of pathos.
Artist: Ernst Neizvestny
Title: Kepmovr?...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flying Saucers
By Vladimir Ovchinnikov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian (1941 - 2015)
Title: Flying Saucers
Year: 1985
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 52 x 23.75 in. (132.08 x ...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled
By Alan Turner
Located in New York, NY
Turner's paintings were classically known for their surrealistic and contorted depictions of the human body.
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Klaus Kertess
By Alan Turner
Located in New York, NY
Turner's paintings were classically known for their surrealistic and contorted depictions of the human body.
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Belts
Located in Kensington, MD
Certificate of authenticity from the Agustin Fernandez Foundation is included.
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baltic Angst
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mark Kostabi, American (1960 - )
Title: Baltic Angst
Year: 1989
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. and signed, titled and dated verso
Size: 70 in. x 48 in. (177.8 ...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Time Bond
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mark Kostabi, American (1960 - )
Title: Time Bond
Year: 1988
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed verso
Size: 84 x 48 in. (213.36 x 121.92 cm)
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Balancing the Budget
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mark Kostabi, American (1960 - )
Title: Balancing the Budget
Year: 1988
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. and verso
Size: 60 x 84 in. (152.4 x 213.36 cm)
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ruins
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mark Kostabi, American (1960 - )
Title: Ruins
Year: 1989
Medium: Oil on canvas, signed verso
Size: 62 x 68 inches (157.5 x 172.7 cm)
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Many-Headed Man
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alejandro Colunga, Mexican (1948 - )
Title: Many-Headed Man
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper Mounted to Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 56 x 42 inches
Fr...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Anxiety
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler: Visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painting...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
La vigna di una foglia
Located in Malmo, SE
Technique: Terre colorée sur toile de jute.
Delivered with the certificate of authenticity from the archives of Roberto Matta.
Artwork size: 100 x 100 cm.
Frame size: 114 x 112 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Acquired directly from the artist.
“The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom.
Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others.
Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings.
Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander.
In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
Category
Surrealist 1980s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media