Precursors of the surreal
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-93) Italy
Vertumnus (circa 1590) oil on wood panel
Fire (1566) oil on wood panel
Heironymous Bosch (1450-1516) Netherlands
Last Judgement Triptych 1482 oil on wood panel search @ www.smarthistory.khanacademy.org
Garden of Earthly Delights circa 1490-1510 oil on wood panel
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) Germany
Four Horseman of the Apocalypse circa 1497-98
wood engraving
online archive of Dürer’s wood engravings http://oak.conncoll.edu/visual/prints/Index_Pages/durer_index.html
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Surrealists
Salvador Dali (1904-89) (Catalonia) Spain
Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) oil on canvas 51.2cm×78.1cm
Search @ www.tate.org.uk watch and read @ www.smarthistory.khanacademy.org
Living Still Life (English)/ Nature Morte Vivante (French) (1956) oil on canvas
search @ www.thedali.org
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978)
Love Song (1914) oil on canvas 73 x 59.1cm
By subverting the logical presence of objects, de Chirico created what he termed "metaphysical" paintings, representations of what lies "beyond the physical" world. www.moma.org
search @ www.moma.org
To become immortal a work of art must escape all human limits; logic and common sense will only interfere. deChirico
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and some others:
Floris Van Schooten (c.1585-1655) Table with Food (1640)
search @ www.louvre.fr
Michael Zavros (born 1974) Australia V12 Narcissus (2009)
www.michaelzavros.com
'V12 Narcissus' 2009 relates to a series of paintings Zavros made of his prized black V12 Mercedes Benz automobile. Growing up on the Gold Coast, the young artist and his father would bond over visiting local car dealerships together. For them the Mercs displayed in the window were synonymous with success; a symptom of what the artist terms as his Irish/Greek-Cypriot family's 'migrant materialism'. Read more @ www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
