Julio César Rodríguez Aguilar, 1976 | Surrealist painter

Julio César Rodríguez Aguilar is a Cuban-born surrealist painter, illustrator and drawing teacher known for creating dreamlike, symbolic works.

Since he was young he was inclined to the arts.

He began his studies at the age of 12, in the vocational school of art in Holguin.

He later continued in a professional school in the city.

After graduating in 1995, he dedicated himself entirely to finding his own true line of art.

Ronald Compánoca, 1981 | Magic realism painter

Ronald Compánoca is a contemporary Peruvian painter born in Arequipa, widely recognized for his captivating style that blends magical realism with a surrealist bent.

His work invites viewers into a fairytale-like, dreamlike universe populated by mysterious, timeless characters.

His paintings lean heavily into dream logic, fantasy, and theatrical setups.

Playful and mysterious figures frequently dominate his canvas, including harlequins, magicians, jesters, toy makers and circus performers.

Lennette Newell, 1959 | Naturalist photographer

Lennette Newell is an acclaimed American fine art and commercial photographer based in San Francisco, California.

She is world-renowned for her bold wildlife portraits and conceptual body-painting series that explore the blurring lines and evolutionary kinship between humans and the animal kingdom.

Lennette Newell channels a lifelong passion for Earth’s biodiversity and the magical wonder of the natural world into compelling animal portraits that afford viewers an intimate glimpse of creatures large and small.

Timur Tsaku,1972 | Surreal / Hyperrealist painter

Timur Tsaku was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

After graduating from art school in 1987, he continued his education in the P.P. Ben’kov College majoring in theater decoration and taught painting and sketching in the Tashkent Academy of Art and Theater.

In 1991, Tsaku left for Israel, where he began working on Chayot HaKodesh (The G-d’s Angels) paintings, that were later combined into one of his most significant art series.

This series made Tsaku famous in the art world, and especially among the American artists of the realism genre.

He returned to Israel in 2001 to create biblically-inspired Israeli art.

Joanna Szewczyk, 1973 | Surrealist painter

Joanna Szewczyk-Oczkowska is an established Polish contemporary painter with more than 30 years of artistic experience, whose art leans heavily into magical realism, emotional portraiture and dark surrealism.

Her work blurs the lines between expressive realism and structural abstraction.

She heavily utilizes palette knives, multi-layered paint applications, and controlled dripping techniques to construct depth and motion.

Her paintings frequently juxtapose softly modeled human portraits against dynamic, geometric, or architectural backgrounds.

Svetlana Bobrova, 1960 | Surrealist painter

The surreal world, created by Svetlana Bobrova / Светлана Боброва, is full of strange creatures.

In this world everything is possible.

Her artworks are full of energy, passion and grotesqueness.

Like dreams, they are born from real anxieties and experiences, taking the spectator far into the depths of sub-consciousness.

They have a hypnotic internal glow, which penetrates the eyes with tonal transitions of neon, green, yellow and blue.

Gennady Privedentsev, 1955 | Surrealist painter

Russian painter Gennady Privedentsev was born in Krasnodar City.

He studied at the Kuban State University at the faculty of technical and graphic arts.

He graduated from the University in 1981 and has been a member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1991.

He has participated in city, regional, zonal, and international exhibitions since 1980.

The first prize winner of the International Exhibition of Caricatures in 1995.

Awarded the diploma of Biennale-2003.

Il Realismo metaforico di Vladimir Kush, 1965

Vladimir Kush, painter and sculptor, was born in Russia, in a one-story wooden house near the Moscow forest-park Sokolniki.

At the age of seven Vladimir began to attend art school until late evening where he became acquainted with the works of great artists of the Renaissance, famous Impressionists and Modern Artists.

Michael Page, 1979 | Pop Surrealism painter

Michael Page, American painter, art paints oil and acrylic paintings that are abstract and surreal with animals and bright colors.

Living and working in San Francisco, CA, Page creates vibrant dreamscapes using eye-popping colors and a focus on the spirit that breathes inside every living organism, the Pneuma.

With a trademark technique of using bold brush strokes and vibrant color palettes, Page’s paintings seem to jump off the canvas as they question new life, science, and the infinite variations of consciousness.

He has shown his work nationally and internationally throughout both Europe and the United States including the cities of Reykjavik, Berlin, Bristol, Rome and Montreal.

Wolfgang Lettl | Surrealist painter

Wolfgang Lettl (1919-2008) was a surrealist painter who was born and who died in Augsburg, Germany.

Success with his freelance art led him to develop his surrealism, and he participated in the 1963 Grosse Kunstausstellung München - the "Grand Art Exhibition Munich", becoming a member of the Neue Münchener Künstlergenossenschaft - "New Munich Artist Cooperative Society".

One-man shows in Germany and abroad followed.

Stanislaw Sugintas, 1969 | Romantic fantasy painter

Stanisław Sugintas (also known as Stanislavas Sugintas) is a prominent contemporary Polish-Lithuanian artist born in Vilnius, Lithuania, known for his expressive, fantasy-infused oil paintings that prominently feature female portraits, figures, animals, and floral arrangements.

His unique style blends textured, abstract backgrounds with highly detailed, classical figurative subjects.

He is widely recognized for his figurative oil paintings, which feature a distinct blend of romanticism, fantasy, and soft color palettes.

Attended the Vilnius Art School for gifted children and graduated from the Vilnius Middle Art School in 1984.

Stanislav Aristov, 1982 | Match sticks Art

Russian artist Stanislav Aristov creates miniature sculptures by bending matches and fire, into a desired shape.

A matchstick is something so ordinary and simple that one could hardly imagine it could become an object of art.

Aristov unveils the artistic potential of matches in his his "Спички / matchsticks" series.

This photographer literally plays with fire by bending the matches into the desired shapes as they burn, then uses a macro lens and a studio flash to shoot the fire and the smoke around it.

The artist then moves to Photoshop to finish the image.

Salvador Dalì | The hallucinogenic toreador, 1969-1970

The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Spanish: El Torero Alucinógeno) is a 1969–1970 multi-leveled oil painting by Salvador Dalí which employs the canons of his particular interpretation of surrealist thought.

It is currently being exhibited at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

In The Hallucinogenic Toreador Dalí transmits his wife's dislike for bullfighting by combining symbolism, optical illusions, and estranging yet familiar motifs.

Dalí used his paranoiac-critical method to create his own visual language within the painting, and combined versatile images as an instructive example of his artistic ability and vision.

Bruno Catalano, 1960 | Lo scultore dei viaggiatori

Bruno Catalano è uno scultore Franco-Italiano di fama internazionale, celebre per la serie di sculture in bronzo intitolata "Les Voyageurs" (I Viaggiatori).

Catalano è nato a Khouribga, Marocco.

La sua vita è stata segnata da un profondo senso di sradicamento: all'età di 15 anni fu costretto all'esilio dal Marocco insieme alla sua famiglia, sbarcando a Marsiglia con la speranza di una nuova vita.

Prima di dedicarsi interamente all'arte a 30 anni, ha lavorato come marinaio ed elettricista.

Influenzato da maestri come Rodin, Giacometti e César, ha sviluppato una tecnica unica che gli permette di creare figure umane con ampie porzioni del corpo mancanti, sfidando apparentemente le leggi della fisica.

Masaaki Sasamoto, 1966 | Nihonga style painter

Born in Tokyo, Japanese artist Masaaki Sasamoto 笹本正明 is renowned for his unique contribution to the Nihonga (Japanese-style painting) genre.

He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, specializing in Japanese painting.

He has been a permanent participant of solo and group art exhibitions throughout Japan.

Masaaki Sasamoto currently lives and works in Yamanashi Prefecture, on the island of Honshu, Japan.

Jean-Claude Campana, 1941 | It's Carnival time

Jean-Claude Campana is an French painter, who has been painting for more than thirty years, started his career by exhibiting together with Baboulène, Buffet, Hilaire, Brayer...

The approach of these Masters encourages the talent of Campana, who already in his youth, builds up a strong character.

Strengthened by his expérience in surrealism, symbolism and realism, Jean-Claude Campana has been devoted to Venice since about a fifteen years, in a very personal style.

Australian Art History and Sitemap

Australian Art is a vast narrative spanning over 65,000 years, beginning with the world's oldest continuous artistic tradition and evolving through colonial, modernist, and contemporary movements.

The trajectory of Australian art reflects a shifting dialogue between Indigenous connections to Country and Western attempts to capture the unique light and landscape of the continent.

Indigenous Australian Art (c. 65,000 Years Ago - Present)

Indigenous art is deeply rooted in the Dreamtime (Jukurrpa), communicating ancestral ties and spiritual connections to the land.

Gil Bruvel, 1959 | Visionary painter

Lubov Pomeschikova (Zubova), 1979 | Surrealist painter

The name of Russian artist Lubov Pomeschikova / Любовь Александровна Светазар (Зубова) in art appeared at once and took its rightful place among the vast diversity of all kinds of artistic talents, whose works appear and produce a great impression in the Art halls of Moscow.

Among the numerous and collective exhibitions, in which Lubov Pomeschikova (Zubova) participated, especially also participated in the International festival of arts "Traditions and contemporaneity" in the Bolshoi Manege 2009, and in the fifth - of the same name festival 2011.

Alexi Torres, 1976 | Symbolist painter

Cuban painter Alexi Torres creates works that capture the creative powers of the universe as well as the problems facing it.

He grapples with how to express the influences of the past, possibilities of the future and the responsibilities of the now.

Torres creates woven canvasses which immortalize influential figures and emblems past and present.

Silvia Cordedda, 1991 | Fractal Garden

Italian artist Silvia Cordedda was born in Carrara, Italy.

Cordedda attended Chemical Engineering in University of Pisa and took Japanese lessons in her free time.

She creates extraordinarily beautiful fractal flowers that look like they could only exist in our dreams or in a wonderfully magical world.

She has been fractalist since January 2012.