Ilene Meyer | Surrealist painter

Ilene Meyer (1940-2009) was a self-taught artist, who was inspired by her mother's drawings as a child. She began showing her surreal oil paintings in Washington and California in the 1970's.

She paints in the Salvador Dalì 1904-1989 and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) style, but with more life and feeling.

She makes her paints come alive with her use of light, color, shadows and "all the details".

Extraordinarily rich and expressively rendered, Ilene Meyer's oil paintings and prints wrap viewers in the mists and myths of creation, exploring fantastical creatures and imaginary landscapes with piercing clarity and passion.

As surreal as Picasso or Dalì, as evocative as Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986, this glossy gallery introduces sci-fi and New Age visualists to the first full-scale retrospective collection of Meyer's work. Invoking themes of ecology, conservation, culture, and civilization, Meyer's paintings pronounce that all existence is interconnected and that all souls are intertwined.

Based on her own imagination, boundless creativity, and precise detail, her paintings cover a wide variety of subjects both created and real: man, animals, plants, still life and the universe, all encompassing science, philosophy and cultures fused with a profound understanding of the earth.

She depicts her subjects in rich and clear colors encompassing a broad range of events on earth from past, present and future, inviting us into her imaginary world carrying message which vary according to the viewer.

Already a cultural sensation in Japan and the subject of numerous articles and interviews and a documentary film, Meyer is perfectly primed to enchant America with her bold, painterly style. This is the first collection of Ilene Meyer paintings to be published in the U.S.

Ilene Meyer è stata una pittrice ad olio autodidatta le cui opere combinavano il realismo con la fantasia.

All'età di sette anni ha contribuito al lavoro per una capsula del tempo ad Alki Point, Seattle

Ha fatto la sua carriera come pittrice ad olio negli anni '70 con la sua prima mostra personale nel 1979.

I suoi primi lavori si basavano sui frutti e sui fiori che usava come modelli, con animali reali ed immaginari che si univano a questi con il passare del tempo.

Il suo lavoro è diventato popolare nel mondo dell'arte fantasy, abbellendo la copertina di libri di James K. Morrow, Philip K. Dick, Marion Zimmer Bradley ed altri autori di fantascienza e fantasy.

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È diventata anche più popolare in Giappone che nel suo paese d'origine. | Fonte: © British Wikipedia