Rudolf Kosow Art
German, Kazakhstani, b. 1972
Like images from a dream, Rudolf Kosow’s Surrealist figurative and still-life paintings and drawings conjure into reality otherworldly and absurdist scenes.
Kosow was born in 1972 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. From 1994 to 2000, he studied painting at the city’s State Academy of Fine Arts.
Now based in Germany, he divides his time between Stuttgart and the town of Laichingen. He creates oil paintings based on three subjects: humans, animals and landscapes. He invites the viewer to interpret each work’s enigmatic message. For instance, in Contact, an astronaut is seemingly unaware of a colossal cat’s peering eye. In Missing Pieces, Kosow depicts a couple considering the whereabouts of slices taken from a giant Black Forest cake.
Kosow also explores the nature of human relationships in his portraits, such as Couple and Discord. Capture features a large-scale image of a sleeping girl juxtaposed with a miniature soldier standing guard.
“I try to paint things as realistically and as close as possible to enhance the real impression,” Kosow says in his artist’s statement. Although the imagery in his paintings and figurative drawings can be strange and somewhat unsettling, Kosow’s unique interplay of light and shadow creates a sense of “calm, harmony and peace.”
Kosow has exhibited across Germany and France. His works are sought by collectors of 21st-century Surrealist art.
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Artist: Rudolf Kosow
Ice case (ice cream surrealist oil painting grey monochrome vintage crime)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
A group of men come across something inexplicable, something that looks amazingly like a scoop of ice cream with a chocolate topping, in the middle of the forest and desperately try ...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Dreamers (yellow banana vintage car surrealist oil painting grey monochrome)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Two photographic motifs, which can by no means fit together in real life, result in a coherent and at the same time completely absurd image on a painting level. It may symbolize wishful thinking which can never be realized in reality.
keywords; americana, surrealism, yellow banana, vintage, oil painting, men figurative painting...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Rebel (pitbull dog ear surrealism scale animal armed men nostalgia vintage art)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, pitbull, humour, uncanny, animals, purple, earth tones, oil painting, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figu...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Sly (hunt dog ear surrealism scale animal men best friend nostalgia vintage art)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, hunting dog, humour, uncanny, animals, prussian blue, emerald green, earth tones, oil painting, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, uns...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Dizzy (lady woman legs high heels black and white flesh tones monochrome city)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In "Dizzy“, something inexplicable has happened in the middle of a sleepy city; a traffic accident where the fire brigade is trying to rectify and underst...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Unexplicable (teal art apricot lady brown vintage earth tone nostalgia fur coat
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, fruit, ripe fruit, humour, apricot, fur coat lady, uncanny, lady, vintage, earth tones, oil painting, figurative painting, str...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
The Good the Bad and Ugly (oil painting monochrome man cowboy western hat)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Relic 2.18 (vintage car old rusty truck wreck nostalgia monochrome oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; brown, earth tones, surrealism, car portrait, car accident, oil painting, representation painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary realist painting, dreams, symbolic composition, tonalist, grey, monochrome, nostalgic, vintage, early century, illustration, car, automobile, old car wreck...
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2010s American Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Fate Challenge I (lady climber art forbidden apple snake brown brown earth tones
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In "Fate challenge I“ a mountaineer is eagerly climbing a steep rocky promontory, hoping to get the sweetest fruit, an apple, and take a bite out of it. Although, she is completely c...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Relic 2.20 (vintage teal old rusty truck wreck nostalgia monochrome oil painting
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; rusty, teal, brown, earth tones, surrealism, car portrait, car accident, oil painting, representation painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary realist painting, dreams, symbolic composition, tonalist, grey, monochrome, nostalgic, vintage, early century, illustration, car, automobile, old car wreck...
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2010s American Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Stranger (black kitten woman nostalgia vintage photograph enigma earth tones)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
We love Rudolf's latest series. The artist says about “Stranger”; "Normally one would hardly take notes of an inconspicuous, black kitten in everyday life...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
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...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Oil, Canvas
Fate Challenge I (lady climber wildcat brown earth tones yellow ochre mauve
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In "Fate challenge II“ a mountaineer is eagerly climbing a steep rock ledge because she has seen something from a distance that she could not explain and is planning to find out. Alt...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Mind Blowing (vintage car surrealist oil painting grey monochrome dessert cake)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Two photographic motifs, which can by no means fit together in real life, result in a coherent and at the same time completely absurd image on the painting level. Something that has happened, you can see things clearly in front of you and still do not understand how often in real life what it all means.
keywords; americana, surrealism, rasberry cake, vintage, oil painting, men figurative painting...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Couple (oil painting flesh tones vintage couple sleeping beauty nostalgia)
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 .....
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Omnicient (oil painting grey monochrome vintage old man beard portrait nostalgia
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Oil, Canvas
Used and Needless (painting vintage old American tractor wreck nostalgia farm
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary realist painting, dreams, symbolic composition, dream, men , portrait, earth tones, tonalist, grey, monochrome, nostalgic, vintage, early century, illustration, brown, car, automobile, tractor, old car wreck...
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2010s American Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Phenomenon II (oil painting surrealist cat paws men vintage clothing nostalgia)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
People encounter a domestic animal that is commonplace and familiar, but the disproportionate scale creates fascination, fright and this perspective renders the human speechless. Similar to the satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels", people are confronted with an inexplicable encounter and do not know how to react to it. Is the situation perplexing because a dog is huge, just taking a nap and does not notice the people around it, or are humans too tiny and do not recognize their "absurd" existence?
keywords; surrealism, animals, cat, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic composition, cat paw
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Useless (painting vintage old car wreck nostalgia light blue auto oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, representation painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary realist painting, dreams, symbolic composition, tonalist, grey, monochrome, nostalgic, vintage, early century, illustration, car, automobile, tractor, old car wreck...
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2010s American Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Yellow Blouse (drawing paper vintage girl back portrait hair yellow article)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic composition, dream, tones, portrait, tonalist, nostalgia, early 20th century, naturalist, illustration, grey art, young woman, hair, hair bun...
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2010s Jugendstil Rudolf Kosow Art
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Paper, Color Pencil
Suspicious Mr. J (art nouveau grey monochrome vintage portrait nostalgia man)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Jugendstil Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Phenomenon (surrealism oil painting rooster chicken head farm animal red)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Absurd scenery in the middle of nowhere: head of a chicken, seemingly alive ... and an elderly man
... do they belong together, are they probably old...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Mr. L (oil painting monochrome vintage old man beard portrait nostalgia, hat)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
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.
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, 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 .....
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Desperate Mr. D (oil painting monochrome vintage man portrait nostalgia flowers
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Stramonia (oil painting monochrome vintage art woman hat portrait earth tones)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Tonalist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Oil, Canvas
Mr. L (oil painting monochrome vintage old man beard portrait nostalgia flower)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Malua Rosea Multiplex (oil painting monochrome vintage flowers figurative woman)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic composition, dream, men , romantic, flesh tones, portrait, earth tones, tonalist, nostalgia, early 20th century, naturalist, illustration, woman, flora, grey art, yellow shoes...
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2010s Jugendstil Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Mr. J. W (oil painting monochrome vintage art man hat portrait faded neutrals)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Irreversibility (vintage old car wreck nostalgia light blue auto oil painting)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, car portrait, car accident, oil painting, representation painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary realist painting, dreams, symbolic composition, tonalist, grey, monochrome, nostalgic, vintage, early century, illustration, car, automobile, old car wreck...
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2010s American Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Erwartungsvoll (oil painting woman portrait hair neck flesh tones vintage art)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Cheerful Mr. L (oil painting monochrome vintage old man beard portrait nostalgia
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
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...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
The brooch (oil painting sleeping beauty surrealism man tennis figurative hair)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
A scene in the middle of nowhere: a young man with a tennis racket unexpectedly sees a huge
figure of a young lady who apparently sleeps or simply dreams in front of him.
keywords; ...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Abutilon Auicennae (drawing paper vintage girl chignon portrait hair bun neck)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic composition, dream, flesh tones, portrait, earth tones, tonalist, nostalgia, early 20th century, naturalist, illustration, grey art, young woman, hair, hair bun...
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2010s Jugendstil Rudolf Kosow Art
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Color Pencil, Paper
Malua Rosea Multiplex (drawing paper monochrome vintage girl braids monochrome)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Realist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Magazine Paper, Color Pencil
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...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Unforgotten (oil painting monochrome vintage couple hat portrait earth tones
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Tonalist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Together (oil painting vintage couple figurative nostalgia sleeping beauty flesh
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Mental closeness connects two dissimilar beings, despite great differences.
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Miracle (yellow banana couple surrealist oil painting comical vintage figurative
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In "Case", 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;...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, 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...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Phenomenon (cat eyes head mystery men vintage nostalgia figurative scene)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Absurd scenery in the middle of nowhere: a section of a giant cat's head suddenly appears out of
nowhere, an event that lets seemingly random passing...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Couple (oil painting woman portrait man flesh tones sleeping beauty vintage)
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 ....
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Discord (couple oil painting suitcase vintage nostalgia sleeping beauty skin)
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...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Find (Gulliver's Travels animal claws vintage oil painting woman man couple fur)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
In "Find", Rudolf expresses the idea that; similarly to the satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels", humans are confronted with an inexplicable encounter and do not know how to react to...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Magic (animal figurative oil painting surrealist deer man reindeer scenery)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
A magical encounter between man and animal, in this case, a deer, produces energy in the form of a strong light. It is quite puzzling how it comes to this meeting, you can decide for...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
On Road
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
As in the painting entitled "Arrived", the thematic content revolves around the eternal search of man for the goal, for the light in his life. Often alone on the road, encounters gi...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
Last Leaves (young girl yellow shirt fall leave portrait figurative oil painting
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The idea for this painting is based on the idea of the transience and rebirth of things. The already fallen tree leaves symbolize the decomposition of matter and at the same time the...
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2010s Surrealist Rudolf Kosow Art
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Canvas, Oil
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