Destino by Salvador Dali and Disney (Short Animated Film)

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Surrealist painter Salvador Dali and Disney began their collaboration on Destino (Destiny) in 1945. The animated short was painted for 8 months until the second world war ended the project.

In 1999, Roy E. Disney (nephew of Walt Disney) decided to revive the forgotten project while working on Fantasia 2000. Disney combined traditional (hand-drawn) animation and computer graphics to bring Dali’s surreal vision to life.

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Impermanence – Surreal Portraits Made With Fungus, Art Gallery

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The symbiosis between film matter and organic matter resulted in this conceptual body of trippy art.

In his series Impermanence, South Korean artist Seung-Hwan Oh creates surreal distorted photographic portraits by growing emulsion-eating fungus on his film.

Oh first allows the fungus to partially destroy the developed film in a process that takes months or even years. He then digitally prints the distorted images (the film is too fragile to print in an analog process).

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Psychedelic Vintage Collage Art by Eugenia Loli (Gallery)

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Collage artist Eugenia Loli uses photography scanned from vintage magazines and science publications to create psychedelic visual narratives that borrow from aspects of pop art and traditional surrealism.
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Loli gives much of her work away as high-resolution files which you can download and print directly from her Flickr account for personal usage. She also has a collection of official, signed art prints available here.

Surreal Photography by Ex-Ballet Dancer Kylli Sparre (Gallery)

Surreal Photography by Ex-Ballet Dancer Kylli Sparre (Gallery) | Third Monk image 7

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It’s never too late to change directions in life and fulfill your dreams instead of just your obligations.  

Estonian Photographer Kylli Sparre is a perfect example – she discovered she wanted to be a photographer only after completing professional ballet school.

When the studies were over, I realized it wasn’t the path for me. I have been searching for an outlet for my creativity ever since. [A few] years ago I found it in photography and never looked back. – Kylli Sparre

Her ballet background seems to influence her surreal photography, as the models in her dream-like pictures are filled with grace, poise, and elegance.

Hopefully, her passion and courage will inspire others to follow their dreams.

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I had no idea what it is that I should or could be doing. I had this very strong feeling that I need to go and find what it is that I love. – Kylli Sparre

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It took me years to finally find what truly inspires me. The feeling I get, when a picture turns out the way I imagine… I get so much energy and I love to be alive! – Kylli Sparre

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> Surreal Photography by Kylli Sparre | Bored Panda

Leonardo da Vinci, The Psychedelic Visual Biography by Ralph Steadman (Gallery)

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Freud once observed that the great Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci was “like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep.” His visionary anatomical illustrations changed the course of modern medicine, and he knew how to play the long game of the creative life.

British cartoonist Ralph Steadman, famously known for his collaborations with Hunter S Thompson developed a great obsession with Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1980s. He began to paint Leonardo’s inventions, as well as countless drawings of Leonardo himself, and eventually even traveled to Italy to stand where Leonardo stood, seeking to envision what it was like to inhabit that endlessly imaginative mind and boundless spirit.

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Steadman released I, Leonardo (public library) — a remarkable “autobiography” of Da Vinci as imagined by Steadman, written in the first person and illustrated in the cartoonist’s unmistakable style.

Funny, poignant, sometimes gory, sometimes optimistic, always intensely intelligent, Steadman’s story stretches from Leonardo’s boyhood experiments to his dying words, granting equal dignity to his triumphs as a genius and his doubts and disappointments as a human being.
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The eyes … are the chief means whereby the understanding may most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature.

The eye counsels all the arts of mankind … it is the prince of mathematics … it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting. Painting encompasses all the ten functions of the eye, that is, darkness, light, body, color, shape, location, remoteness, nearness, motion and rest.

Because of the eye the soul is content to stay in its bodily prison, for without it such imprisonment is torture. Who would believe that so small a space could confirm the image of all the universe?

– Much of Steadman’s narrative is woven from Leonardo’s own musings, collected in his Thoughts on Art and Life (which is available as a free download).

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Beloved British Artist Ralph Steadman Illustrates the Life of Leonardo da Vinci | Brain Pickings

Surreality GIFs by Bill Domonkos (Gallery)

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Bill Domonkos is a visual artist and filmmaker.

His work has been shown internationally in cinemas, film festivals, galleries and museums.

Domonkos’ surreal GIFs are created using archival photos and vintage film footage, effectively smacking reality in the face, leaving us with a sense of the impossible made surreal.

Surreality GIFs by Bill Domonkos

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Cloaked 

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Multiverse

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Dutch Roll

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The Refrigerator Awakes

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Bonini’s Paradox 

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Surreal Dream Art From 1970s Japanese Culture (Gallery)

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Combining dreams and art produces psychedelic imagery because they share the same boundless canvas.

Surreal dream visions are highlighted in these dream art scans from 50watt’s collection of 1970s’ Japanese illustration catalogs.

Shigeru Izumiya

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Hidetoshi Umeda

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Ryu Kumita

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Tadami Yamada

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Shuhei Hasegawa

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Haruo Takino

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Toshinobu Imai

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Yukio Ueda

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Hanmo Sugiuura

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Alice in Wonderland Painted by Salvador Dalí, Art Gallery

Alice in Wonderland Painted by Salvador Dalí, Art Gallery | Third Monk image 13

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In 1969, a collaboration of epic proportion took place as Alice in Wonderland was illustrated by Salvador Dalí.

The art book went on to become one of the most sought-after Dalí suites of all time. It contains 12 heliogravures, one for each chapter of the book, and one original signed etching in 4 colors as the frontpiece, all of which have been kindly digitized by the William Bennett Gallery

Alice’s Evidence

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The Lobster’s Quadrille

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The Mock Turtle’s Story

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The Queen’s Croquet Ground

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Mad Tea Party

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Pig and Pepper

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Advice From a Caterpillar

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The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

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A Caucus Race and a Long Tale

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The Pool of Tears

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Down the Rabbit Hole

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Frontpiece

alicedali1Salvador Dalí Illustrates Alice in Wonderland, 1969 | Brain Pickings

Psychedelic Dimensions of Consciousness, Larry Carlson Art Gallery

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This psychedelic art gallery showcases the surreal imagination of Larry Carlson.

Each image has an out of this world feeling. The colors and visuals all coalesce with the viewer’s imagination, it’s like looking into an optical illusion where there’s more behind each artistic piece.

Psychedelic Art Gallery – Larry Carlson

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The Wonderful World of Larry Carlson | Larry Carlson

Music and Psychedelic Visions, Tokio Aoyama Art Gallery

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Tokio Aoyama and Painting

An artist who paints with a combination of metaphysical, spiritual, and music themes, Tokio Aoyama hails from a tiny town in the north of Japan.

Tokio has painted murals and has done commission work for clients all over the world. He has designed art for record labels Epistrophik Peach Sound, Mello Music, Moamoo, and Jazzy Sport.

Tokio has done many private commissions for domestic and international clients. He has also done many live paintings at Music events such as Appi Jazzy Sport, Japan.

Tokio Aoyama’s trippy art has a hip hop feel with psychedelic undertones. Enjoy this collection of his fine work.

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Official Website | Tokio Aoyama

Psychedelic Japanese Sci Fi Art (Gallery)

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Visions of space and the future from Japanese culture in the 70s and 80s. 

Kazuaki Iwasaki

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One of our favorite sites, 50watts’ has a running feature where they showcase Japanese sci fi art scans from their ever-growing collections of books and catalogs on Japanese illustration and design.

We love looking through old book illustrations, and the sci-fi genre always is chalk-full of the most surreal, colorful, and bizarre. This is a fantastic collection of obscure artists and their fantastic imaginations that you would otherwise never see! – Juxtapose

Sadao Sato

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Hisashi Saito

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Noriyoshi Orai

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Shusei Nagaoka

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Takuro Kamiya

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Akira Yokoyama

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Natsuo Noma

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Yoji Kuri

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Yasuhiro Yomogida

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Nayoyuki Kato

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Tadanori Yokoo

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McDonalds Apocalypse, Artist Unknown

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Kazumasa Nagai

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Visit 50 Watts for the full collection of Space Teriyaki

Surreal Pop Culture Paintings, Dave Macdowell Art Gallery

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Dave MacDowell’s art melds satire with an unapologetic wit.

The style of MacDowell’s work pairs surreal visuals with deliberately recognizable pop culture references to transform the known into a hilarious commentary on society.

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The Last Friday

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AM: And you are entirely self taught. What methods did you use to educate yourself in the art of making a good painting? You seem to have a wonderful, and quite individual, grasp on color theory…

DM: Downloading color wheels from the Internet, and struggling with the illusion that I was doing it right. As a career decision from the start, I decided to always use a small script brush to make the work super detailed, and to keep the themes varied and entertaining. – Dave Macdowell, Arrested Motion

Seven in the Box

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Saving the Princess

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Bad Motha Eraserhead

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AM: Some of the great lowbrow painters such as Robt Williams and Todd Schorr must be a huge inspiration to you. Where else do your significant inspirations lie?

DM: I need to tell stories and express what I feel. I always figured that if everything was painted really well, you could say whatever you wanted. I think hidden behind a lot of my candy colored pieces are revolutionary slants leaning toward the misfits and underdogs. Subtle jabs at Classism, racism, greed and commodified sexuality. It’s all in there, but never in your face. – Dave Macdowell, Arrested Motion

Hendrix in Wonderland

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Imagine

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Alice in Limbo

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The Dude Abides

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When Yoko Ate Ringo

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AM: You had a dalliance with Banksy and also the planned Banksy Unveiling show in the UK not too long back. How did that come about and what happened?

DM: Banksy wrote and said he was a fan of my stuff years ago on Myspace {Remember Myspace anyone?}. My friend in London curated a show with the pitch of revealing the guy. Of course they never did, it was all cheeky fun. Banksy and those guys are all tight anyway, so their Broken Britain madness continues. – Dave Macdowell, Arrested Motion