Wednesday 5 March 2014

Surrealism Artist Research

Vladimir Kush










 Vladimir Kush is a Russian surrealist painter and sculptor and studied at the Surikov Moscow Art Institute. He was conscripted into the Soviet Army for two years where he was assigned to painting murals , he moved to the US then eventually got5 his own gallery on the island of Maui, Hawaii.

He also won the First prise in painting at the Artistes du Monde international exhibition in Cannes.` Most of his artwork feature nature and people, mixing these together could create a surreal effect.



Rene Magritte



Rene Magritte is a well known and famous surrealist artist of all time for 'The Son Of Man' portrait. He wasnt recognised for his work until his late 50's when he got recognised and reached some form of fame. He was influential in the transformation of surrealism art and the pop up movement. Most of Rene's work was created my taking everyday objects and rearrange the figures, locations and objects making the view look deeper at what they were looking at.

Man Ray 



     Man Ray was an american modernist artist who spend most of his career in Paris, France. He was a significant contributor to the Surrealist movement, although his ties were informal. He produced pieces in variety of media but he considers himself a painter. He's well known for his photography and was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer.  






Paul Klee 



Paul Klee was a painter born in Switzerland, 1879. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually got deep into colour theory (Colour theory is a body of practical guidance to colour mixing and the visual effects of a specific colour combination).  He also did continuous line drawings and line drawings as well as his surreal landscape paintings.




Marcel Duchamp 



Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with dadaism and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century.