because we all need to dream a littleTumblr (3.0; @surrealism)http://onesurrealistaday.com/<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyyzocwP4n1qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>Deca Arcade of the Psyche</i> by <a href="http://www.lalarosa.com">Shala Rosa</a></p> <p><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyyzocwP4n1qzse0lo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1268149810&Signature=pDowiBh4hyx7WG9qM4Isn9ZId8I%3D">Click</a> to view the large image.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/PvJqt2TPOO8/440130905http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/440130905Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:47:00 -0500dreamdream imagesubconsciousfreudsigmundhorseshellwomannudefacesurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/440130905<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyyyrc9XL01qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>Celebration Jubilaire du Grand Autodafe de Toled</i>e by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/felixlabisse">Felix Labisse</a></p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/TK8TpxTikGY/437920397http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/437920397Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:28:00 -0500satyrfrogwomannudemancandleknightswordskullhornswonderlandsurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/437920397<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyqs2ggoCU1qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Madonna of the Bees</em> by <a href="http://flockhart.deviantart.com/">Paul Flockhart</a>.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/MLpJEbkpJUA/435714880http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/435714880Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:17:00 -0500womanwomennudedouble imagelayersgirlVmantiewatemelonheadanimalbeastskeletonbuildingsurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/435714880<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyxnih7k8t1qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sunday Dalí: <em>Invisible Afghan with the Apparition on the Beach of the Face of Garcia Lorca in the Form of a Fruit Dish with Three Figs</em>, 1938.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorca">Garcia Lorca</a> was a good friend of Dalí’s who was shot an killed in 1936 while fighting in the Spanish Civil War. That may explain why <a href="http://crushedegg.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/federico-garcia-lorca.jpg" toptions="layout=dashboard, effect=appear, shaded=1">his face</a> is an apparition in this painting.</p> <p><em>Invisible Afghan</em> is an example of the multiple-image technique Dalí was using frequently in the height of his surreal period. The most apparent image is a face that comprises an urn and two men’s heads. The top of the face’s head is a fruit dish with pears which is formed by the shape of the rocks against the sea with the urn becoming the base. The third image is that of a very vague dog, formed by the swirling clouds, the head resting on the cliffs, its paws painted in sketchily. Off to the left is the woman from Millet’s <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet_(II)_001.jpg" toptions="layout=dashboard, effect=appear, shaded=1">Angelus</a>.</p> <p>Dalí used double images to obsessively trick the eye into seeing both images provoking a mental crisis in the viewer. That obsessive mental instability formed the crux of Dalí’s paranoic-critial technique.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/rd35hdpafJc/433544593http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/433544593Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:22:00 -0500dalidouble imagemultiplefacespainspainishlandscapefruitpearsfigsmenghostseaoceanwatermountainsrocksdogmilletangeluslipslorcatrickeyesurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/433544593<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyn1s7GFWa1qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>Surreal Dreams</i> by <a title="Thom Boss of DeviantArt" href="http://artofthom.deviantart.com/">Thom Boss</a></p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/XkQ-p7JSzPE/431277750http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/431277750Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:22:00 -0500dreampipeslandscapehornwheelshapespuddleswatertwilightsurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/431277750<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyn1c2zuH81qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>Still Life Reviving</i> by Remedios Varo, 1963.</p> <p>This was Varo’s final painting.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/Z0svMy9SNg0/429267008http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/429267008Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:46:00 -0500platesfruitstill liveanimationspinningmovementsolarsunflamecandlepomegranatesurrealsurrealistsurrealismtabletableclothhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/429267008<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyn0y4hmSR1qzse0lo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>Shoe Fetish</i> by <a title="Hugh Kretschmer" href="http://www.hughkretschmer.net/">Hugh Kretschmer</a></p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/3VONBWFjeEI/427267881http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/427267881Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:35:00 -0500womancameratopmodelshoebooktripodfilmcapelightstageactingactresswhitesurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/427267881<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx2k464m8Z1qzse0lo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>Orgasm</i> by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/24417130@N04">Savago Lome</a>. 39” x 48”, oil on canvas, 2008.</p> <p><i>Love</i> this.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/14DD1t0tvAI/425204972http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/425204972Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:33:00 -0500womannudemanlipspillarslandscapelakewatermountainsplansflowerpetalsurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/425204972<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyib8ezFSY1qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>la photographe</i> by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/casajordi">Georges Bousquet</a></p> <p>Large Size <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/casajordi/4379954636/sizes/o/">here</a></p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/o-ROg2oX_MM/423105712http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/423105712Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:32:00 -0500girlphotophotograph.digitalpoloroidcamerababybirdx-rayrib cageflowerwomannewspapersurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/423105712<object width="400" height="322"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/xbnwlk" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/xbnwlk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="322" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><em>Get Out</em> by Charlotte Boisson, Julien Fourvel, Pascal Han-Kwan, Tristan Reinarz, and Fanny Roche.</p> <p>French with English subtitles.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/nwyQfb-a1mY/421338293http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/421338293Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:32:01 -0500filmanimatedvideohallucinationpatienthospitaldoctorpatientbirthcomforttraumafrenchlanguagesurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/421338293<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyk67udmLF1qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sunday Dalí:<i> Dematerialization Near the Nose of Nero</i>, 1947</p> <p><span><span>While a good example of Dalí’s “nuclear mystical” period, this painting also reveals a more Classical style. With typical irony, Dalí wrote that “the two worst things that can happen to an ex-Surrealist today are, firstly, to become a mystic and secondly, to know how to draw. Both these forms of vigour have lately befallen me at one and the same time”. </span></span></p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/fOl-TM5Hu1I/418786895http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/418786895Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:30:00 -0500dalinerofranceemperormysticismatomicclassicalfruitpomegranatebustsculpturewomanmannudeinkinkwellpentreeshadowlandscapesurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/418786895<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kybmn8L0Ny1qatozto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Sixteen Miles of String</em> by Marcel Duchamp, New York City, 1942.</p> <blockquote> <p>Via <a href="http://shadeofhoney.tumblr.com/post/407962156/marcel-duchamp-mile-of-string-new-york-1942">shadeofhoney</a>: For an exhibit by Andre Breton titled <em>First Papers of Surrealism.</em> The whole purpose of this exhibit was to block the gallery paintings from the viewers. Duchamp even invited some children to play ball or jump rope as part of the exhibit and this infuriated many of the attendants. The placement of the string is so perfect, especially how it angles from the top to the bottom. On the very top it looks like weaving and near the bottom you can make out some prism shapes.</p> </blockquote> <p>Here is an image of Duchamp standing inside the installation: <img src="http://www.timothyrosenberg.com/tumblr/onesurrealistaday/images/2010-03-01%2016%20Miles%20of%20String/duchamp.jpeg" alt="Duchamp inside Sixteen Miles of String" title="Duchamp Inside Sixteen Miles of String"/></p> <p>and here is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/arts/music/03gall.html">Josh Smith’s 2007 tribute</a> entitled <em>Genisis, I’m Sorry</em> <img src="http://www.timothyrosenberg.com/tumblr/onesurrealistaday/images/2010-03-01%2016%20Miles%20of%20String/tribute.jpeg" alt="Genisis, I'm Sorry" title="Genesis, I'm Sorry"/></p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/VlWPvJ2EGcw/416439004http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/416439004Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:06:00 -0500stringinstallationgalleryfrustrationphotophotographsurrealsurrealistsurrealismwebspiderhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/416439004<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kydwq3E7au1qzse0lo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><em>Father</em> by <a href="http://www.stephan-balleux.com">Stephan Bellaux</a> from the series <a href="http://www.stephan-balleux.com/work/they-shoot-horses-dont-they">They Shoot Horses Don’t They</a>, pastel on paper, 2009.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/U_L4w7TR4Z4/410683381http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/410683381Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:32:00 -0500faceliquidmanplasticsuittiechairposesurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/410683381<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IJIoq1STwvA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IJIoq1STwvA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><em>The Apple Incident</em> by <a href="http://kiteretsu.robot.co.jp/kunio/">Kunio Kato</a>.</p> <blockquote> <p>Kunio is a Japanese animator known for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maison_en_Petits_Cubes"><em>La Maison en Petits Cubes</em></a></p> <p>Deciphering the imagery is risky; enjoying it is easy. An object/symbol becomes assimilated by the general public.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://menageri.tumblr.com/post/408231585/the-apple-incident-by-kunio-kato-japanese">menagri</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/nVSmhfz6JNM/412208178http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/412208178Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:27:00 -0500applevideomovieanimationdrawingsocietyrainapplesmagritteeatsurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/412208178<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyc14uR0lL1qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Crisis of Casualness</em> by <a href="http://www.xippas.com/en/artist/philippe_ramette">Philippe Ramette</a>, 2003.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/vqZCsyq-SDE/410066135http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/410066135Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:08:00 -0500photophotographpicturetableliving roombarberchairrugmansuitwallgravitystonesurrealsurrealistsurealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/410066135<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky9wr1dL331qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Anatomical Displacements-24, 2009</em> created and submitted by <a href="http://douglasprince.com/wp">Douglas D Prince</a></p> <p>Very talented. Thanks a lot, Doug.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/meiqOhsVux4/408027635http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/408027635Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:30:00 -0500womannudedistortedfaceribbonbubbleshairheadsurrealsurrealistsurrealismsubmissionhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/408027635<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky9lj809vD1qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>The Involuntary Thoughts of Lady Caroline Dubois</em> by Carrie Ann Baade, 2005, oil on panel.</p> <p>Caroline Dubois is a French poet who lives and works in Paris.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/3N0xX1okEXA/405974384http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/405974384Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:35:00 -0500womanflowerredsubconcioussailangelsdemonsmonsterhouselointigerswordeyescurlsmouthflyropehairsurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/405974384<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky81zqG3Au1qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sunday Dalí: <em>The Cosmic Athlete</em> 1968.</p> <p>The rights to the painting were donated to the campaign to make Barcelona the site of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games. The painting was used as a promotional poster. The campaign was ultimately successful with Barcelona beating out Paris, Brisbane, and Belgrade. Many Americans will remember this was the Olympics for the first US Men’s Basketball “Dream Team.” Dalí was never able to see the ultimate fruits of his labor due to his death in 1989.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/KmOfxuqVNLM/403971349http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/403971349Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:38:14 -0500athleteolympicsmanapollosportdalisalvadorpostersurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/403971349<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky5c6lmiAU1qzse0lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>The Octopus Dream</em> by <a href="http://ribf.riken.go.jp/~dang/">Nguyen Dinh Dang</a>, 2009, oil on canvas.</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/GyJFHi_jzVM/401503107http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/401503107Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:00:00 -0500womantoplessbottleglassbrokenmansleepingdreampantsbreastshirtwaterbedsurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/401503107<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxzwi6vGTi1qzse0lo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Mama, Papa is Wounded</em> by Yves Tanguy, 1927, oil on canvas</p>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OneSurrealistADay/~3/5Ztb9JLNgpw/399534221http://onesurrealistaday.com/post/399534221Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:27:00 -0500shapeshadowpentagramrockcactusstickhairsurrealsurrealistsurrealismhttp://onesurrealistaday.com/post/399534221