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The Voyage Of The Surrealists

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Featured Work

Bean Grain and its Imaginary Friend Watch the Methaphysical Drowning Man by TheMaker

Suffering, although on the surface it looks like a negative thing, is actually a journey of the soul toward the Light. When suffering is intense enough, one can actually detach from it and look at the suffering part of their Self as if they were a mere beholder.
The multi-tasking employee by Lawrence Alfred Powell

For other works see the new art/literature ezine, Le Nouveau Monde Vert, at lnmveditors.50webs.com (LNMV is now accepting art/poetry submissions for the 2009 issue. Email to: lnmveditors@yahoo.co.uk)
Ad astra by retepk

Since pre-history we have looked up at the stars and wondered what was out there in space. / We are learning. / Compiled in Photoshop CS2 using my own photographs and a Bryce moon texture.
THE CANDLE FLAME by Larry Butterworth

There is a part of us that ages-our body, primarily-and a part that doesn’t. The part that doesn’t age has something to do with the mind, but it isn’t the mind as we usually think of it; our mental faculties of memory and concentration begin to slowly subside with age just as the body does. But our primary or innate awareness, our feeling of being alive, of just being here, doesn’t age. It is as bright as always, like a candle flame that puts out steady light, whether the candle is new, half gone, or almost out.The trick is to pay attention to the flame, and not the candle. The flame of a candle half gone may burn just as it did at the beginning, but by now it has burned longer, and it knows something about burning. Innate awareness never ages, though the body does, and maturity and wisdom is the compensation for what time eases from our grasp. From Lewis Richmond’s The Candle Flame Burns Just As Brightly
Emerging From a Parched Landscape by Heather Rinehart

An unforeseen return to Surrealism brought on by a drought of the mind. Corel Painter X
Gentility by phatpuppy

sammykaye1sstamps.deviantart.com / etereas-stock.deviantart.com / gild-a-stock.deviantart.com plus my own resources
Heart of darkness by paulgrand

Voted the winner of the Man Ray grunge tree contest on Flickr! giraffe
13h50 by Patrick Desmet

Surreal photomontage
No Pictures by Danilo Lejardi

Just for the fun of it.
Life is a breeze by Amanda Cass

digital art-girl with a dandelion head -life is a breeze…. thanks for looking xx / Copyright © Amanda Cass All rights reserved my images may not be reproduced in any form without my written permission / / / credits go to link
The artist by Patrick Desmet

Photo montage / I hope you like it !

Recent Work

Tiny Dancer by Tara Lemana

Wow, this one was a bit of a journey! This started life as a photo of my beautiful little sister playing around in the back yard with my kids. I caught her in a pose that reminded me of a Spanish Flamenco dancer and just HAD to try to turn her into one. Only thing was – she was dressed in jeans, a woollen jumper and sneakers. So – first off, she needed a dress. I loathe using other people’s art to make my own so I did not want to take the easy way out by downloading a stock photo for the dress. I had nothing remotely like a the right type of dress to use so I ended up creating this one out of, I kid you not, 417 tiny layers of texture (my own resource, naturally) to create all the waves etc. HOURS and HOURS of work, but the end result was worth it, to my mind anyway. Then of course her hair style needed to be changed from a ponytail into a bun, and flowers needed to be added. / Then I decided that I wasn’t happy with the abstract background I had her in. Next followed a marathon of settings, again all using my own resources, to try her in, from beach scenes to perching on flower petals. Nothing was quite right. / This is what I decided on in the end. My only lament is that because she is tiny, much of the detail in the dress is lost. I hope you’ll view this large to get some idea of just how detailed the dress is, if only to humour me! :))) All resources my own, taken with my Canon Powershot A480 point and shoot in the past month. Proudly New Zealand-Made!!! :) Close up shot of the dancer: SOLD – Two greeting cards of this image, July 2009. Featured in Art and Stories Made for Children, July 12, 2009. / Featured in The Beginners Corner July 12, 2009. / Placed 9th in the Art Of Photography Challenge for the First Things group, Aug 16, 2009. / Placed 6th in the Water Art challenge for the Rain Drops and Water Art group, Aug 2009. / Featured in All Original Fusion Sept 3, 2009. / Featured in The Dutch Connection Nov 11, 2009. Also available as a t-shirt:
Genie Out Of The Bottle: Agnes by Sarah Curtiss

The first in a series of genies. Graphite on Strathmore Bristol Vellum. Original is 11”x14”.
Razzaroz Swords by AlienVisitor

Along the coast of the Saracolit Sea are the cliffs known as Razzaroz Swords. / Many are the ships that have been lost upon these sharp rocks, thats why for thousands of years there as always been a lighthouse here. / But even then when the fogs roll in, ships are still lured to its shores. In the night sky rides the planet “Triffids World”
Desarrollo sostenible VII by Pedro Flores

Photo manipulation / /
Mac Arthur Park (The Song) by Danilo Lejardi

Please view larger. / © 2009 Danilo Lejardi / A very personal tribute to one of my all-time favorite songs. This is a Cinema 4D rendered image; no postwork this time. “MacArthur Park” is a song written by Jimmy Webb. Originally written as part of an intended cantata rejected by The Association, it was first recorded by Richard Harris in 1968 and then covered by many other performers. One of the best known covers of the song is Donna Summer’s 1978 disco hit. Maynard Ferguson, Stan Kenton, and Woody Herman all performed dynamic big band jazz versions. / The song is named after MacArthur Park, a park in Los Angeles, California, although the title on the disc and record cover art is spelled with a space between Mac and Arthur. Its lyrics, which include the memorable line “Someone left the cake out in the rain”, are more symbolic than descriptive, beginning as a poem about love, then moving into a lover’s lament. Lyrics. / Spring was never waiting for us, girl / It ran one step ahead / As we followed in the dance / Between the parted pages and were pressed, / In love’s hot, fevered iron / Like a striped pair of pants [Chorus] / MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark / All the sweet, green icing flowing down… / Someone left the cake out in the rain / I don’t think that I can take it / ‘Cause it took so long to bake it / And I’ll never have that recipe again / Oh, no! I recall the yellow cotton dress / Foaming like a wave / On the ground around your knees / The birds, like tender babies in your hands / And the old men playing checkers by the trees [Chorus] There will be another song for me / For I will sing it / There will be another dream for me / Someone will bring it / I will drink the wine while it is warm / And never let you catch me looking at the sun / And after all the loves of my life / After all the loves of my life / You’ll still be the one. I will take my life into my hands and I will use it / I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it / I will have the things that I desire / And my passion flow like rivers through the sky. / And after all the loves of my life / After all the loves of my life / I’ll be thinking of you / And wondering why. MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark / All the sweet, green icing flowing down… / Someone left the cake out in the rain / I don’t think that I can take it / ‘Cause it took so long to bake it / And I’ll never have that recipe again / Oh, no! / Oh, no / No, no / Oh NO!!
Dawning of a New Day by Bunny Clarke

No matter what world, what universe, I’m sure the beginning of the day has to be an event of beauty. The changing of the guard of night to day. Created in Apophysis 3D Hack. Post work in Photoshop using the smudge tool, natural brushes for painting, saturation and contrasts for color enhancement.
..The momentary illusion of creation.. by Ramasg

This is based on a legend I heard once when living in India. It was about three sages who thought to challenge the gods and create their own world. They went to one of the sacred lakes near Bhimtal and set about sing their world into creation. / As the story progresses they stoped once the world formed around them. However once they stopped singing their world faded awya to mist and they realised that theirs was an illusionary world. As punishment they were turned to stone and gaurded the lakes from the folhardy. This picture is based on that legend. I wanted a misty brightness to it. Hope you like it! Made with bryce and cs2!
Life in surreal by Gemma Burleigh

Thanks to Stock pic owners. I love creating surreal shots, helps me escape and be creative. Have a lot on my mind lately so it helps when i can get lost in photoshop.
The One That Got Away by pmistric

Through the chain link fence… RedBubble Art Feature – “Buyers Club”
READAPTACJA by KEIT

2008 featured in / A Spiritual Walk on 06/09
BEIJING..........!! by shanghaiwu

PHOTO MANIPULATION/all images taken by ME! HERE YES…....here I come….....ah maybe I mean…there I GO!!. FUSIONartPHOTOGRAPHY FEATURED in CORE FEATURED in CONTRASTING PERCEPTIONS / UNLOCK YOUR MIND at the BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL FOTO BIENNALE /2011
darling, its Our cloud! by paulgrand

One year every time we visited the beach we would have this cloud follow us!

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About This Group

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s. It grew out of the Dada movement but was heavily influenced by the new science of psychiatry and the work of Sigmund Freud.

Surrealist artists used fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams. Its writers experimented with automatic writing ~ spontaneous, without censoring their thoughts ~ believing that automatism was a better tactic for societal change than the Dada attack on prevailing values.

Please do not submit Abstract Expressionism, American Primitive Art, German Expressionism, Hard Edge Art, Impressionism, Op-Art, Pointillist Art, Pop Art, or Mirror Art.