Surrealist Gallery Online
May. 31st, 2004 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zdashamberI've always loved the art of René Magritte and M.C. Escher; I suppose the style is known as "surrealist", though I'm not sure. Art crit classes were among the few I didn't try out in college. Both Magritte and Escher do art that's vaguely odd or creepy but not completely insane (a la Dali), and well enough done technically (I'm afraid I'm not always absolutely thrilled with the proportions of Magritte's living creatures, but his ideas make up for it).
I was down in Monterey a few weeks back, and I stopped by an art gallery that had prints by an artist of that same style. His name is Rafal Olbinski, and he's still alive... And my mind turns to art speculation, actually perhaps owning an original bit of really nice art.
Looking around today, I found a gallery with a whole passel of good living surrealists, among them Olbinski: Art Bank. There's a score of worthwhile artists on that page with handfuls of images each, and more artists and images elsewhere on the site...
I remember I was just vastly impressed when I came to San Francisco five years ago or so, and there was a gallery that actually had a real Escher print, for sale, that I could have bought, that I could touch even without buying, just hanging there on the wall...
Hm. I wonder about the artists that decorated the Edgefield, home of ACNW, source of my chipper frog icon...
I was down in Monterey a few weeks back, and I stopped by an art gallery that had prints by an artist of that same style. His name is Rafal Olbinski, and he's still alive... And my mind turns to art speculation, actually perhaps owning an original bit of really nice art.
Looking around today, I found a gallery with a whole passel of good living surrealists, among them Olbinski: Art Bank. There's a score of worthwhile artists on that page with handfuls of images each, and more artists and images elsewhere on the site...
I remember I was just vastly impressed when I came to San Francisco five years ago or so, and there was a gallery that actually had a real Escher print, for sale, that I could have bought, that I could touch even without buying, just hanging there on the wall...
Hm. I wonder about the artists that decorated the Edgefield, home of ACNW, source of my chipper frog icon...