Surrealism Paintings

A LOOK AT

Surrealist artists used all kinds of strange methods to tap into their subconscious minds, relaying the symbols, shapes, and colors they experienced there through their Surreal paintings.

SURREALISM

Surrealism artworks are typically full of visual juxtapositions that one would not observe in the real world, revealing the strange and surreal world that lies just beneath the surface of the one we recognize.

SURREALISM ART

To gain a deeper understanding of Surrealism painting, let us examine a few of the most famous Surrealist paintings.

SURREAL PAINTINGS

A LIST OF THE MOST FAMOUS ACRYLIC PAINTINGS

A tray of fish is encircled by a cluster of seemingly incongruous items – full and crescent moons, a cross, an exclamation point, and a forked red flag – all suspended in a black void.

Around the Fish (1926) by Paul Klee

This painting has been regarded as the definitive Surrealist artwork, a prime illustration of isomorphism, the utilization of biological forms bizarrely and indirectly alluding to man, in a type of precise, lifelike illusionism.

Observatory Time: The Lovers (1936) by Man Ray

This is a Surrealist piece inspired by the subconscious and dreams. Tanguy’s love of nature, particularly the sea, initially prompted him to create ethereal marine animals.

Indefinite Divisibility (1942) by Yves Tanguy

For the Surrealist artist, Leonora Carrington, the concepts of metamorphosis and transformation were crucial to her works, along with the notion of divinity within the feminine.

The Giantess (1947) by Leonora Carrington