Pavel Tchelitchew | Abstract /Surrealist painter

Pavel Tchelitchew /Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев (1898-1957), Russian-born painter🎨 and stage designer. Born in Moscow. In early youth made drawings influenced by the macabre Romanticism of Doré and Vrubel. Moved in 1918 after the Revolution to Kiev.

Was encouraged by Alexandra Exter; attended courses at Kiev Academy and received private lessons from Tchakrigine and the painter and stage designer Rabinovitch. Painted in an abstract🎨 style.

Left Russia in 1920 and spent 1921-3 in Berlin, where he had considerable success as a designer for the theatre and opera. Moved to Paris in 1923. Began to paint figures and portraits in restrained colours and with an air of reverie.

Michael Creese | Surrealist painter

American painter🎨 Michael Creese was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his family at the age of seven.

While in school, he developed a keen interest in art and drawing, and was greatly encouraged by his high school art teachers to pursue his passions.

Michael’s interest in drawing quickly progressed to a fascination with painting.

After being accepted at several different universities, including the Pratt Institute of New York, Michael began his formal art training at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, where in 1981 he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Ophelia Redpath, 1965 | Surrealist painter

Redpath was born in Cambridge, England, where she still lives. Her career as a painter spans over 20 years with exhibitions in over 100 shows in Britain and overseas, painted several murals and produced two books.

From 1983-1984 she attended the Art Foundation Course at CCAT where she studied under the tutelage of the acclaimed illustrator, Warwick Hutton and the highly respected painter, Julia Ball.

After further studies of Music and Education at Homerton College, she took up painting full-time.

She lives in a village near Cambridge with her daughter Sally.

Eric Fortune | Pop Surrealist painter

Eric Fortune is an artist based out of Columbus, Ohio.

He received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design where he was honored with the Outstanding Senior Award🎨 upon graduation.

His work continued to garner acclaim with the acceptance into such prestigious annual competitions as The Society of Illustrators NY and LA as well as Spectrum and others.

He was the Artist Guest of Honor for ConGlomeration and was recently awarded🎨 the Jack Gaughan Award for Best Emerging Artist of 2009.

George Redhawk | Surrealist Animated GIFs Art

American artist🎨 George Redhawk creates eerily beautiful gifs even though he's legally blind.

With help from computer software, the designer utilizes the art of gif-making to show others how he sees the world as a man who suddenly lost his sight.

"It’s an artistic expression of the confusion I go through with my vision loss", Redhawk told The Creators Project. "Not enough data getting sent to the brain, and it tries to fill in the blanks with false information, so you can’t trust what your eyes or brain are telling you".

The result is an impressive collection of moving art, called The World Through My Eyes !

John Pitre, 1942 | Visinoary / Surrealist painter

Educated in the fine arts at the prestigious Art Students League in New York City, John Pitre, evolved to become a master of Fantasy and Surrealism🎨. Pitre has been a significant influence in the art world for over thirty years, and carries the distinction of being one of the most widely published artists in modern history.

Joan Miró | Surrealist painter

Joan Miró i Ferrà (1893-1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona.

Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride.

In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

Stanislav Plutenko, 1961 | Surrealist painter

Stanislav V. Plutenko was born in Russia. Plutenko studied at the Moscow University of National Economy, taking lessons in painting from private masters. In 1984 he created his first works.

From 1985-1990 he did designer's work in commercial advertising and joined UNESCO's guild of graphic artists in 1991.

In 1997 he was rewarded with the Grand Prix of the «Golden Brush» exhibition.

Catherine Alexandre | Surrealist painter

Catherine-Marie Alexandre, painter whose reputation in France and abroad is well established, studies in Fine Arts, National Diploma in painting.

Diploma in contemporary jewelry design. First prize in a fashion design competition.

Easel painting, illustration for advertising and publishing. Currently, paints and writes.

- "When I was two years old, my parents peut a pencil in my hand, that I have never let it go since.

At the end of my secondary school studies, I went to Art'School, where I have obtained my NATIONAL DIPLOMA of PAINTING".

Gil Bruvel, 1959 | Stainless Steel sculptures

A word from Gil Bruvel...

“I am artist because it is the conduit to release the ideas and visuals I carry daily. Since I was a little boy I have pursued my own exploration rooted in the unconscious mind and nurtured with daily practice using a variety of mediums of artistic expression. My artistic process developed organically from my father's cabinet shop to the stainless steel sculptures I create today.

Frida Kahlo | Quotes /Aforismi

• "Il surrealismo è la magica sorpresa di trovare un leone in quell’armadio in cui si voleva prendere una camicia".
• "Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts".
• "La belleza y la fealdad son un espejismo, porque los demás terminan viendo nuestro interior.
• "Beauty and ugliness are a mirage because others end up seeing our interior".
• "Bellezza e bruttezza sono un miraggio perché gli altri finiscono per vedere la nostra interiorità".

Igor Morski, 1960 | Surrealist painter

Igor Morski is a Polish🎨 graphic designer, illustrator and set designer. Presently, he focuses on mixed media graphic art, based manly on photo manipulation, drawing, recently also 3D.

Igor Morski graduated with honors from the Interior Architecture and Industrial Design Faculty at the State Higher School of Fine Art in Poznań (now the University of Arts).

Gabriel Pacheco, 1973 | Surrealist painter

Gabriel Pacheco is an Mexican painter🎨 and illustrator, known for working in the Surreal Visionary style.

Born in the City of Mexico in 1973, Gabriel studied scenography at the National Fine Arts Academy.

He has given several design workshops at the ENAP and illustration courses for children books in Mexico, Italy and Spain.

He began his career as an illustrator when his sister asked him to illustrate a story for her.

Lucian Freud (1922-2011)

Lucian Freud, Figurative Painter Who Redefined Portraiture, Is Dead at 88

By William Grimes, July 21, 2011 / The New York Times

Lucian Freud, whose stark and revealing paintings of friends and intimates, recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art, died on Wednesday night at his home in London. He was 88.

He died following a brief illness, said William Acquavella of Acquavella Galleries, Mr. Freud’s dealer.

Lui Liu 刘溢, 1957 | Surrealist painter

Lui Liu 刘溢 was born in North China and came to Canada in 1991. Speaking both Chinese and English fluently, Lui Liu possesses superb painterly techniques, his unique language that finds a wide range of audience around the world.

His acquisition of techniques started during China's Cultural Revolution when he was a young boy painting posters on the streets and continued in the most prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

Fred Tomaselli, 1956 | A "beautiful" virus

Fred Tomaselli is an American artist🎨. He is best known for his highly detailed paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin.

Tomaselli's paintings include medicinal herbs, prescription pills and hallucinogenic plants alongside images cut from books and magazines: flowers, birds, butterflies, arms, legs and noses, which are combined into dazzling patterns that spread over the surface of the painting like a beautiful virus or growth.

Leopold Survage | Abstract / Cubist painter

Léopold Frédéric Léopoldowitsch Survage (1878-1968) -variant names Léopold Sturzwage, Leopold Sturwage, Leopoldij Sturzwasgh, Leopoldij Lvovich Sturzwage- was a French painter of Russian-Danish-Finnish descent born in Lappeenranta, Finland.

At a young age, Survage was directed to enter the piano factory operated by his Finnish father.

Mihai Criste, 1975 | Surrealist love

Mihai Criste is a creative Romanian painter who is fascinated by abstraction, mystery and surrealism.

He graduated from the Visual Arts Academy in Romania in 2001 and since then has been participating in group exhibitions along with illustrating children’s books, such as the The Wizard of Oz.

The graceful composition of his paintings, along with his creative concepts and titles, give his pieces a special touch and him a great degree of distinction.

Mihai Criste | The Kiss of Autumn

Francis Bacon | Expressionist painter

Born to an British family in Dublin on 28 October 1909, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was the second of five children of Christina Firth, a steel heiress, and Edward Bacon, a race-horse trainer and former army officer. His childhood, spent at Cannycourt, County Kildare, was blighted by asthma from which he suffered throughout his life.

With the outbreak of war in 1914, his father took the family to London and joined the Ministry of War; they divided the post-war years between London and Ireland. Bacon repeatedly ran away from his school in Cheltenham (1924-6).

After his authoritarian father, repelled by his burgeoning homosexuality, threw him out of the family home for wearing his mother’s clothes, Bacon arrived in London in 1926 with little schooling but with a weekly allowance of £3 from his mother.

Henri Rousseau | Post-Impressionist painter

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner.

He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector.

He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.

Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.

Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists.