Chris Bryan
Mocean
Watching this video, I felt captured by a primal feeling of awe. One of these rare moments when we glimpse how inconceivably vast and powerful this reality is.
Chris Bryan
De Es Schwertberger
Heavy Light
Over more than fifty years of creating, Schwertberger’s themes and painting style evolve continuously. The path led from a figurative fantastic realism to an almost abstract, process-like creative flow.
Emil Bisttram
And the Transcendental Painting Group
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
Walter Spies
The Edge of Heaven
The image of Bali as a place of great physical beauty laced with a mysterious spirituality has its origins in the works of a small circle of bohemian expats in the 1930, of whom Spies was the most influential.
Piotr Kamler
In Search of Time
Polish animator Piotr Kamler explores the unfathomable and mysterious relationship between movement and time, matter and space.
M. C. Escher
Hyperbolic Dreams
Escher reveals a world far away from our general perception of reality, a world of mathematics, a world of abstractions, anticipating deep features of modern day cosmology.
Johfra Bosschart
The Zodiac Series
Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.
Paul Wunderlich
Everything you can imagine is real
Paul Wunderlich was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He’s one of the most important members of the Magic Realism movement.
Anouk Van Kalmthout
The Art of Dyeing
It’s like strolling through an otherworldly dream that feels like home at the same time, breathing the vibrant air of enchantment.
Wenzel Hablik
Crystal Utopias
Wenzel Hablik is a visionary, an utopian architect of the proverbial crystal castles in the clouds.
Michiel Schuurman
The logic of replication
The base of Michiel Schuurman’s graphic work is a certain logic – whether natural, scientific or historical. Geeky algorithms, natural…
Alexandra Duprez
The eternal metamorphosis
French artist Alexandra Duprez mentions Australian Aboriginal art as her main inspiration to take up painting.
Tuco Amalfi
The source of light is within
I wanted to make a post about the Brazilian visionary artist Tuco Amalfi for some time already. Now I saw…
Leo & Diane Dillon
The Heart with Wings
For more than fifty years the Dillon’s formed one of the most successful and influential illustrator partnership.
Vaka Valo
Dream Diaries
Schematic illustrations scanned from instruction manuals turned into unsettling nightmares. He achieves a dreamlike other-worldliness only reached by few artists.
Alexander Ross
The primordial cell
Alexander Ross’ hyper worlds of cellular growth and green towering vines are one of a kind.
Ernst Fuchs
Architectura caelestis
Ernst Fuchs was one of the most influential masters of the visionary arts movement.
TAS
DMT fluorescence out of the dark
The Adventurous Spark aka TAS is an Austrian 3D artist specialized in live visuals and mapping for psytrance festivals.
Robert Beatty
Keep it surreal
Robert Beatty’s artworks are exceptionally peculiar and seem impossible to pin down.
Las Pozas
de Edward James
Edward James — described by Salvador Dalí as “crazier than all the Surrealists together” — designed a sculptural dream garden that defies any architectural label.
Robert Venosa
Timeless vistas of inner realities
New York City born, Robert Venosa was transported into the world of fine art in the late 60’s after having…
Phil Kirkland
The psychedelic textbook solution
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
Storm Thorgerson
Taken by Storm
Thorgerson’s metaphorical language to me feels like as if Magritte would have been into photography instead of painting.
Brenna Murphy
Resonant hyper objects
The ancient and the yet unseen echoes through these arabesque hyper realms, with an almost hallucinatory effect.
Keith Rankin
Half child Half ancient
Keith Rankin is responsible for the sublime artwork of Orange Milk Records.
Jerry Uelsmann
Photo Synthesis
Jerry Uelsmann uses the technique of combination printing to create his dreamlike scenes.
René Magritte
Evoking the mysterious
René Magritte developed key strategies and techniques to defamiliarize the familiar, to evoke the mysterious.
Jung-Yeon Min
Organic Headspaces
These pictures are a marvelous way to depict the infinite pool of our imagination.
Asger Carlsen
Studies on flexibility of relation
Asger Carlsen’s pictures make me think about my human form and its range of functions.
Daehyun Kim
Moonassi
Daehyun Kim’s Moonassi series is his life-time project. He draws to meditate on himself and others. And the others again can use the drawings to contemplate as well.
Frédéric Fontenoy
Métamorphose
Métamorphose is a project by French photographer Frédéric Fontenoy that consists of slit-scan self portraits created in outdoor locations.
Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights
We all know this masterpiece but the delight is in the detail.
