Painting styles: Surrealism.

Talking about the history of art to the list of the most significant events the emerge of such movement as surrealism should be included. During this period a lot of famous surrealism paintings were created. Surrealism painting makes people take art in a different way, look at familiar things differently. The artists of surrealism movement used so called spontaneous technique, automatism concept, the aim of such method was to express subconscious ideas, to give vent to unconscious mind.

These ideas appeared at the time of World War I, as a result of Dada informal international movement that protested against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests regarded by dadaists as the roots of the war. The characteristic features of surrealism appeared not in paintings only but in writing, films, and other spheres. Surrealism famous painting works appeared during this period. One of the most well-known representative of surrealism is Dali and his surrealism painting.

A lot of surrealism artworks appeared during and after World War I. Surrealism paintings reveal the connection between abstract and real material forms, they can be identified by such features as odd surprising elements, confrontation of incompatible things, sub-conscious elements, the painters inspired by sociology and psychology transferred anti-rational themes or characters from subconscious into their works.

Among various painting styles surrealism is the one impacted by Freud’s theories, that's why the works of artists involved into surrealism style lack rational, reason. The artists that represented this style of art, focused on philosophical meanings of art, rather than on literal. One of the goals of surrealism artists was to make people look at things from another point of view and to feel about the things in a different way.

The origin of surrealism is traced back to the beginning of XXth century and there are a lot of paintings of that period of time which are alive today. However, there are artists today that also create the artworks basing on the principles of such movement. This web site contains the collection of surrealism painting pics painted by Valeriy Klinkov, contemporary surrealism and abstract painter. The visitors of the site are offered oil painting for sale; browse the collection to enjoy and obtain one of the paintings created in a thought-provoking surrealistic style.

In spite of the fact that surrealism movement has already gone through it's peak it still exists these days worldwide. There are a lot of painters followers of the style and we have a great chance to enjoy the artworks of these artists of the time. One of such collections are offered online and, visiting klinkov.com web site, it is possible to view the original surrealist paintings available for sale.