surreal art Archives – Daily Art Fixx

Robert Peluce: Painting

November 23, 2011 By Wendy Campbell

Robert Peluce was a painter, sculptor, and animator. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937, Peluce studied at East Los Angeles City College and the Chouinard Art Institute.

“Peluce was an artist unlimited by subject matter, materials or medium. With a fanciful imagination and well-crafted technique, he had an exceptional ability to blend the antics of animation with the sophistications of art. For Peluce, life’s foibles and contradictions were subjects for illumination through sight gags and puns that expressed the seriousness of play and the tragedy of humor.

For what we could consider ordinary and take for granted, Peluce would command our attention by subtly nudging our sensibilities, drawing us into a world of relationships, and focusing on our perceptions of the world. We can no longer hide behind the masks of normality or take lightly our mundane actions. Peluce sees to it that we become aware of life’s absurdities and the dangers of taking it all too seriously.” (from Lamy Avery Gallery)

His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has won many US and international awards including the Peabody Award in 1997. Robert Peluce died on April 12, 2004.

To see more of Peluce’s work, visit Glass Garage Fine Art.

Naoto Hattori: Mini Prints

February 24, 2011 By Wendy Campbell

Japanese born surrealist Naoto Hattori has released some new work in the form of affordable signed and numbered mini-prints.

Hattori studied graphic design in Tokyo before moving to New York to study at the School of Visual Arts where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration in 2000. As well as painting, he works in editorial, CD and book covers, flyers, posters, skateboard and snowboard design.

To see more of Hattoris’s work, visit NaotoHattori.com.

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Kazuhiko Nakamura: Surreal Cyberpunk

December 19, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

Inspired by surrealism and cyberpunk styles of art, Japanese artist Kazuhiko Nakamura is drawn to 19th century machine designs and armor, among other stylistic aspects of that time period. His work is created in a portrait style, while still containing a puzzle-like quality.

Born in Hyogo, Japan, in 1961, Nakamura began making digital art in 1996. His work has appeared in many computer graphic books and magazines. One reviewer commented, “Kazuhiko Nakamura’s art is a surreal hybrid of man and machine, a hard marriage of metal and flesh.” (bio from Device Gallery).

To see more of Nakamura’s work, visit his Mechanical Mirage website.

Exquisite Corpse: Surreal Art Collaboration

December 1, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

This week’s Deviant is not a single artist but the Exquisite Corpse surreal art collaboration group on Deviant Art. “Exquisite corpse (also known as “exquisite cadaver” or “rotating corpse”) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. “The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun“) or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.”

“The technique was created by Surrealists and is similar to an old parlour game called Consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. Breton said the diversion started about 1925, but Pierre Reverdy wrote that it started much earlier, at least before 1918.” (Wikipedia)

To see more collaborations, visit the Exquisite Corpse Group page on Deviant Art.