Modern Surrealist Painters. Surrealism Now

In 1920s of the XXth century social, cultural, political life faced the movement that had great impact on contemporary and future generations of artists, writers, thinkers and many other people. It goes about surrealism which avoids reality representation, and puts the emphasis on the hallucinatory power of the irrational. The surrealism works revealed various visions of the movement ideas, in some cases it was humorous dream fantasy, or sadistic and sarcastic, or allegorical figures composed of animal and vegetable imagery (Henry Fuseli). However, in all cases the goal of the movement – to depict the supremacy of the unconscious over the conscious – was achieved. A lot of surrealism works appeared during that period, the beginning of the XXth century, but among contemporary artists it is possible to find modern surrealist painters dealing with the fantastic, allegorical, mysterious figures, etc. The works of the modern surrealist painters go on amazing viewers and such painting can be found at various online and local galleries.

The term itself, contemporary art is interpreted differently. Thus, it may define all the art created after WWII, on the other hand, the notion is referred to the art produced at this present point in time. One can view and obtain the works of contemporary artists with the help of funded arts organizations, contemporary galleries. The works can to be purchased for somebody's private collection directly from the artists.

If to trace back the development of the movement one can come to a conclusion that it went on existing in various forms. Thus, since the 1960s artists combined surrealism and mischtechnik technique. The technique, also called "veristic Surrealism", was borrowed from 16th century and widely used by Ernst Fuchs, Robert Venosa and Chris Mars. During the 1980s the political situation («Iron Curtain») provoke the formation of opposition movement and surrealism again entered into politics in form of this underground artistic group, known as «Orange Alternative».

These days, in terms of surrealism, «massurrealism» notion is often mentioned. The term appeared due to James Seehafer in 1992. This art form combines surrealistic ideas and mass media, and the style is characterized by the use of more electronic based media and methods. Appeared in the late 20th and early 21st centuries mass–media communications had great influence on the development of this style. The art style initiated in the US and than spread to Mexico, Russia and Europe.

Now you have a chance to visit one of today's artists online gallery to estimate the works, to view contemporary painting and purchase a work directly from the painter. Klinkov.com is the website of contemporary painter incorporating the ideas of surrealism, symbolism, abstract style, expressionism. And this online gallery welcomes everyone interested in contemporary art.