Surrealism, playing with perspectives and childlike fantasy

Scots Taffer on 23/5/2006 at 04:08

(http://www.sapergalleries.com/Gonsalves.html) Consider me blown away!

I love exactly this kind of art. The sort of thing that sideswipes you. It's not trying to be so needlessly surreal that reality looks like a fried egg on a landscape of geometry a la Dali, neither be it headscratchingly repetitive, like stairways inverting into ladders turning on their sides into railway tracks, but whatever.

I love this stuff. The myriad use of reflections and subtle plays that are made from the mirror images are just perfect. Also the merging of textures and materials is done in a way that I find... oddly moving. I suppose something about these images strikes a chord with the youthful mind that tumbles free and full of adventure, bursting with imagination, oddities and simple absurdities.

Inline Image:

http://www.sapergalleries.com/Gonsalves_WhiteBlanket.jpg

So lovely I thought I'd share. Feel free to link similarly spirited art.

Rug Burn Junky on 23/5/2006 at 04:22

They remind me very much of the photomontage work done by (http://www.photography-museum.com/mutter/scottmutterNewGallery.html) Scott Mutter, which I've always loved.

Inline Image:

http://www.photography-museum.com/mutter/churchaislelg1204.jpg

I actually have a print of the (http://www.photography-museum.com/mutter/wrigley.html) Wrigley Field montage in my office, and a smaller one here at home. The first time I saw it, it gave me chills.

Jackablade on 23/5/2006 at 04:52

Yeah I have one of Scott Mutter's montages hanging in my room. This one

(http://www.photography-museum.com/mutter/escalator.html)

Scots Taffer on 23/5/2006 at 05:03

Oddly, the escalator one doesn't do anything for me. It looks wrong, perspectives seem shoddy and the whole image doesn't work. I love the Wrigley Field shot though, that's damn near perfect.

Starrfall on 23/5/2006 at 05:16

I have (http://ee.eng.usf.edu/snider/light/artist/Escher/waterfall.jpg) this on a poster and it wigs me out.

edit: aaaaaaaa someone made it in (http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/lego_waterfall_1600.jpg) legos

Aja on 23/5/2006 at 05:22

Love the escalator shot.. Starfall's would be nice if it DIDN'T have the perspective error.

And Scots' could very well be illustrations of dreams I've had. Some of them are wonderful, though I wish I could see larger versions.

Ko0K on 23/5/2006 at 05:59

The art on the referred Web site reminds me of the paintings by (http://www.visionsfineart.com/kush/aa_index.html) another artist. Pretty cool stuff.

His main Web site is down for some reason, but it's "vladimirkush.com." I'm not much of an artsy type, but I remembered him because of his name. :)

Rogue Keeper on 23/5/2006 at 08:05

I think I'm (http://www.meridian.net.au/Art/Artists/HRGiger/Gallery/Images/giger-necronom-v-medium.jpg) old-fashioned.

Ultraviolet on 23/5/2006 at 08:17

Mmm, that thing going into her is -- oh yeah, and that thing coming out of her... fuck yeah...

Rogue Keeper on 23/5/2006 at 09:47

"Her"? I had impression it's a neuter creature.
Ok, interpretations of art are different.