Not exact matches
Just like other
Surrealists, she was interested in the unconscious mind and
dream imagery.
The
surrealist,
dream - like
imagery of Dali, Ernst and Magritte was undergoing a change.
It is the first comprehensive, illustrated biography since the Tate Gallery's 1974 exhibition catalogue and it looks at the life of an artist who was painting
surrealist imagery and alternative worlds, including
dream figrues, fairy figures and demons.
In their often baffling and highly imaginative
imagery, the
Surrealists addressed the
dream, the irrational, and the workings of the unconscious mind.
Combined with
imagery from his
dream diary that he kept since 1978, as well as nods to his favored artists such as Chirico, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Jakuchu, or Escher, the new pieces are converting his fears and traumatic experiences into energetic pop - psychedelic -
surrealist images.
[14] His work inspired the
surrealist concept of drawing
imagery from
dreams and the unconscious.
In this new take, subjects were deliberately selected to represent psychic states and the random
dream imagery favored by European
Surrealists gave way to something more akin to lucid
dreaming that carefully reflects on the interaction between physical and mental landscapes.
Two etchings made shortly after her return demonstrate how Nevelson synthesized a
surrealist interest in
dream imagery, her experience of Maya art, and her own preoccupations with royalty (she considered herself to have queenly qualities), marriage (to her work), and death (real and symbolic).