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]]>Bruno is a French contemporary artist that specializes in a specific kind of surrealism. He creates oil paintings and prints of contorted, distorted animals.
Bruno started painting and sketching at an early age and had always known he’d grow up to be an artist. One day, about ten years ago, he felt an urge to grab a canvass and draw. From the very start he was drawn to surrealism – he wanted to depict the madness and weirdness of the world around him with a brush and some paint.
Soon he started gravitating toward animals and developed his unique style. His purpose is to get the viewers involved in the work by questioning the reality around them. The paintings depict something very familiar and mundane – animals – but in an absurd way. By distorting something so familiar, Bruno is able to reinvent it and create something new and exciting.
And if that’s not incredible enough – Bruno is almost completely self-taught! When he decided he wanted to pursue art, he started attending workshops to work on his sketching and drawing skills. But other than that – he did everything on his own. To get better at oil painting, his preferred medium, he used books and looked at famous oil paintings in museums. It took him a while to get really good, but today his art is as well-made as it is interesting and weird.
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]]>At times, his works are disturbing from the bat, with brain flamingos, heart spiders, and dead flowers invading the subjects of the portraits. Other times, the setting is much more welcoming and calming, with flowers and idyllic nature taking the driver’s seat. But this is only until you notice the small details that make everything that much more unsettling.
Although Silveira’s artworks are best described as portraits, the artist himself doesn’t think they represent persons. Instead, they are a representation of moods.
“From inside, we are a strange mix of dreams, thoughts, feelings, and human meat. I think these portraits are not persons but moods,” Silveira explained in a recent interview.
Thanks to their uniqueness, Silveira’s portraits have already captured the attention of art lovers and art institutions from around the world. They are regularly featured in exhibitions in renowned galleries, with the next one being scheduled in London’s Dorothy Circus Gallery in early 2022. If you can’t make it there to see his works in person, check out more of them below.
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]]>This week we introduce you to artist Tess Gray. Inspired by the world around her (anything from the environment itself to her life experiences), her work most often depicts eerily empty landscapes, but with a fantastical twist.
Born in South Wales and currently based in Cardiff, Gray’s images depict the meeting point between realism and surrealism. Relying on studies from life, automatic sketching, and found images, her toolbox includes brushes, palette knives, and a field easel.
“I would say my practice is project-based,” she told Jackson’s Art, explaining her creative process, “but honestly, I tend to ascribe to the ‘I’ll paint what I want, when I want’ attitude. If a subject captivates me, or I think of a composition, I’ll go with it.”
“I’m of the opinion that painting and drawing are fundamentally the same thing,” adds Gray. “Oil paint is the material I sketch with most naturally for landscapes, but for figures I favor dry media. After working in acrylic as a teenager, I switched to oil. The vibrancy of the colors in oil and the texture was inimitable and I never went back. I just discovered an affinity with it and find it so versatile.”
Her work, in its versatility, is open for interpretation.
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]]>Murray has had chronic migraines for over twenty years of her life, and her vibrant and colorful paintings can help us understand how she sees the world in these moments.
“My paintings have been proof to myself of what I experience during an attack, and despite the pain, I’ve made the choice to see the good, weird, and beautiful,” Murray said to My Modern Met. “I began making paintings to show the incredible beauty that accompanies this strange neurological condition, as I have always been fascinated at the neurobiology behind the imagery I see.”
You’ll notice that many of her paintings depict wooded forests, and this is because the artist often seeks refuge in forests, in order to avoid strong light.
Take a look at Murray’s surreal paintings from her Migraines in Nature series and make sure to follow her on Instagram.
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]]>In Bois’ world, you can drink coffee out of sugar cube cup and grate some soap on top of your spaghetti. The artist sees photography as a tool for translating ideas so her focus is not on fine-tuning the photos to fit today’s aesthetic standards. Despite that, she currently has 320,000 Instagram followers, which means that people are recognizing the value of her work.
“I like to be very hands-on when it comes to most aspects of my practice and find it very hard to delegate,” the artist told This is Colossal. “Being my own subject gives me a sense of control that I wouldn’t have with a model.”
Scroll down to see her art.
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]]>“I’ve often said that it is the diversity of my inspirations that most defines my art,” he told Plastik Magazine. “I look at many things for inspiration. I collect and hoard lots of things and lots of junk. My studio and house is overflowing with stuff. I collect old children’s books, interesting product packages, toys, photographs, medical models, and religious statues.”
“I also have an extensive collection of books on art,” he said. “I love the old masters more than contemporary art, so most of my books are on an artist like Ingers, David, Bronzino, and Carpacio with just a few contemporaries like Neo Rauch and Loretta Lux.”
Based in Portland, Oregon, his paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including a career-spanning retrospective “Cámara de las maravillas” at The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo of Málaga, as well as an earlier retrospective “Wondertoonel” at the Frye Museum of Art in Seattle and Pasadena Museum of California Art.
Check out some of his work, shared on his Instagram page.
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]]>Hattori got interested in art at a very young age before getting introduced with graphic design. After studying graphic design in Tokyo, he decided to move to New York where he enrolled in the School of Visual Arts and earned a degree in illustration.
Through the years, this talented artist managed to develop a distinctive style of painting which is characterized by surreal themes that are both disturbing but also impressive. Although his paintings can seem like computer-generated due to the high attention to details, all of Hattori’s works are painted by hand on a canvas using acrylics.
“My vision is like a dream, whether it’s a sweet dream, a nightmare, or just a trippy dream.” – Hattori says about his works. “I try to see what’s really going on in my mind, and that’s a practice to increase my awareness in stream-of-consciousness creativity. I try not to label or think about what is supposed to be, just take it in as it is and paint whatever I see in my mind with no compromise. That way, I create my own vision.”
Check out some of Naoto Hattori’s works below.
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” This is the description of Luisa Azevedo’s Instagram page where she shares photo manipulations she creates.
Luisa first became interested in photography when she was 15 and saw interesting images on Instagram. After she started taking photos with her phone, she wanted to learn and practice more and eventually discovered photo manipulating software, Photoshop.
“The first image I edited on Photoshop was published in March, 2015,” Luisa says. “Since then it’s been a long way. Everything I know I learned by myself, watching tutorials about Photoshop on Youtube.”
Check out her surreal photos below, they are great!
. #repost •09/02/2017•
. Photo manipulation and digital drawing made by me. Original image: dattatreya-patra-485158.jpg (by Dattatreya Patra on Unsplash). Software and hardware used: Adobe Photoshop CC 2018, Wacom Intuos, VSCO and Snapseed.
. Reposting an oldie because I didn't have time to create anything new 
Check the “Important” highlight on my profile
In the last 3 weeks I’ve been struggling a lot with finding time to do everything I want to do. The end of this semester is draining most of my energy and it’s hard to be motivated all the time. But then I remembered this Buddha quote, "Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it." After thinking about it for a while it started to make sense and l felt a little better. I will probably post something new this weekend (finally!!) 
. Made with Photoshop CC 2018, collage and digital drawing
Winners: @lifethroughjoannaseyes (wall calendar) and @syarahteoh (mini calendar) 
. #repost
. Is it me or the image seems a little blurry? I don't understand what happened, the original image looks fine and sharp 
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]]>“History and the energy of times past are contained in old materials, in addition to bead color and bead variations that you can’t find among contemporary beads,” the artist explains. “While playing in my studio I love the intuitive dance of selection, when everything starts humming along and I know which bead choices to make. Beads as a material are ancient and primal. I love that about them. There is also definitely a meditative quality to working with beads.”
Check out her work below.
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]]>“Since I knew I wouldn’t be able to afford my own studio space until I had my feet on the ground, my parents lent me their garage space to use as my dedicated studio. The following images were all created in that small, crowded, too-hot-in-the-summer, too-cold-in-the-winter, Michigan garage!”
When you have the talent, there’s no holding back.
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