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Ghostly Street Art Illustrations by Li-Hill
Canadian street artist Li-Hill newest piece showcases a stunning mural filled with ghostly and obscure images of angels, animals and people. Each piece evokes a sense of rushed movement, which is accomplished through fast and transparent strokes.
Artist Catherine Nelson Painstakingly Pieces Together Thousands of Images from Surreal Worlds
Artist Catherine Nelson uses her training as a painter and her expertise in cinematic visual effects to piece together stunning, illusory realms. With the use of a special photography technique, she blends these mediums for several months to create an individual photograph.
Majestic & Surreal Hybrid Animal Street Art by Alexis Diaz
Puerto Rican street artist Alexis Diaz composes stunning murals using a traditional and engraving technique to recreate whimsical and majestic surreal pieces.
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Raffaello Ossola
vibrant dramatism and invented landscapes create an exciting space for
the viewer to explore and ponder. Each one offers an opportunity to
imagine yourself in his universe, wandering through mazes or floating
around trees. Although Ossola takes liberties with his compositions,
ultimately they retain the verticality/gravity that we are familiar
with. Where he leaves the laws of our world more readily are in his
pools. They seem to be reflecting a cloud, moon, or other objects in the
sky, but the eye reads it more as if the elements mentioned are
situated in an environment within the water. The surface of the water
appears more like a penetrable glass casing than a body unto itself.
It’s mesmerizing to see.. Source:beautifuldecay
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Beautiful!
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Jacub Gagnon’s
surreal imagery is conceived in a world where the limitless
possibilities of interconnectedness and its unseen bonds are the one
true reality. Through the marriage of unlikely events and entities,
Gagnon succeeds in opening the lid on intriguing philosophical questions
concerning what lies beyond the leagues of perception and understanding
our species can achieve, given the five senses with which we’ve been
granted to navigate the universe. Often taking inspiration from language
and interesting turns of phrase, Jacob builds narratives which may
initially seem absurd, however, closer analysis uncovers a wealth of
multi-layered associations, made all the more potent by their
relationships with discourse and communication. Through our engagement
with Gagnon’s wonderful array of surreal correlations between natural
and man-made, the new connections we make may take us to destinations
filled with illumination and enlightenment. Source:wowxwow and mymodernmet
"And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown back, throat to the stars, “more like deer than human being.” To be absolutely free! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal!"
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Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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@skadisman @dreaminganddoubting Hey guys, that picture was from a playlist cover for a book; this is the quote.
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Edit: OMG I didn’t even notice the source of the gif… I need coffee. Or sleep. Or both.