For fans of Hieronymous Bosch… Alessandro Sicioldr’s work adopts a similar style and many of the same motifs: the egg, the cave, the pregnant Madonna, the beaked ghoul. But where Bosch’s phantasms were spiritual, Sicioldr’s […]
Tag: dreams
I had a dream based on the painting “In the Pavilion of the Red Clown” by Robert Williams. I was in a demented circus pitched in a field. There was no sense that there was […]
(Art) The Night Whimsies of Christian Schloe
Although they look like paintings, the works of prolific Austrian artist Christian Schloe are actually composed in Photoshop. Through the themes of night and flight, where everything is aloft on wings or trees or water, […]
(Art) The Curious Dreamworlds of Bill Mayer
Artist Bill Mayer has created book covers and illustrated classic stories, including Orwell’s Animal Farm. His fine art blends the eerie and whimsical into dreamlike alternate realities where plants and animals make up aristocratic high […]
(Art) The Cartoon Hells of Jon MacNair
The work of Jon MacNair is best described as “Hieronymus Bosch meets Mickey Mouse” — or more aptly the Fleischer brothers, but I’m not sure how many people know who they were anymore. Surrealist landscapes […]
(Art) The Night Wishes of Amy Sol
Amy Sol is an American artist of Korean ancestry currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a member of the pop surrealist or “lowbrow” art community. She typically paints upon treated wooden panel, incorporating […]
(Art) The Epic Dementia of Chrigel Farner
With a style somewhere between a 1930s Fleischer cartoon and the works of Salvador Dali, Chrigel Farner paints the epic landscapes of your dreams, complete with impossible geography and an army of smiling, demented characters. […]
Painting by Vlada Mirkovic, “The Man who Lived His Dreams”
(Art) The Dreadful Melancholia of Anton Semenov
With titles like “Sorry,” “Dust,” and “Goodbye,” the disquieting work of Russian artist Anton Semenov, who goes by the name Gloom82, is steeped in apprehension and dread. Occasionally nightmarish or even whimsical, most of his […]
