It was
a kind of surrealism that got to me much more than «art» surrealism ever did.
This kind of surrealism is what «Sherlock Gnomes» is largely lacking in terms of personality.
Not exact matches
Don Van Vliet injects those legacies with his own unique vision, a
kind of homespun
surrealism born
of the lore
of the American desert and the artist's own inspired visions, alternately whimsical and nightmarish.
In their work we see a sustained interest in the advancement
of abstract painting, responses to the landscape connected to environmental issues, a continued engagement with
surrealism and the development
of a new
kind of non-specific representational narrative painting.
I certainly would hope there is a little
of that
kind of quiet, unsettling
surrealism that both those artists epitomise.
These artists rejected the prevailing working methods
of American artists,
surrealism, geometric abstraction, regionalism, and representation, and created a new
kind of experience
of art based on personal gesture, immediacy, painting according to sensation, and direct («existential») engagement with subject matter.