surrealism
Mysterious Instagram Artist Makes Hundreds of Alien Glyphs
The Instagram artist known only as Jonas is making hundreds of vividly colored and slowly evolving serial paintings.
A Korean Illustrator’s Existentially Damaged Illustrations
Seductive men and women pose in moods of aching distress in Dani Soon’s technically-deft illustrations.
This Artist Finds Pantone Colors in the Wild
Andrea Antoni uses the iconic color-matching system to enhance gorgeous photos of Italy.
How Calder and Miró Discovered the Same Aesthetic While an Ocean Apart
A dual exhibition in New York celebrates the two artists' surprisingly similar starry compositions.
A Near-Death Experience Inspires a Haunting Photo Series
After surviving a horrific car accident, photographer Marta Zgierska found inspiration in the aftermath.
[NSFW] Disturbing Fleshy Sculptures Imagine a Mutated Human Race
Italian sculptors Antonello Serra and Sara Renzetti breathe life into visions of humanity you dare not dream.
Whimsical Sketched Landscapes Are a Serene Escape From Reality
When IRL existence feels like a literal trash fire, take a break with Ellie Craze's dreamy illustrations.
[NSFW] Enter a Surreal Dream with These Sensual Hand-Painted Photographs
Shae Detar turns the world into a magical world populated by nature-frolicking goddesses.
[NSFW] Vintage Porn Bursts with Flowers in Dromsjel's Psychedelic Erotic Collages
Found porn and psychedelia merge in Pierre Schmidt, a.k.a., Dromsjel's warped collage-illustrations.
The Forgotten Surrealist Painter Who ‘Didn’t Have Time to Be Anyone’s Muse’
By the time she was 30, the formidable painter and writer Leonora Carrington had had an affair with Max Ernst, endured a nervous breakdown, been forcibly installed in a mental institution, fled to Mexico, and written a harrowing memoir about madness...
Go Inside the Cartoonishly Surreal Mind of Painter Anja Salonen
Salonen's paintings often have red, swollen noses, which occasionally detach from the face like Mr. Potato Head.
Tumble Around a Giant Alien Balloon Animal in This Psychedelic CGI Music Video
Japanese electronic music artist KOM_I gets an otherworldly trip of a music video for her song “BAKU.”