About Surrealism

Surrealism has much in common with alternative religious traditions including occultism, theosophy, and fascination with Buddhism in the West from the mid-nineteenth century forward. It pursues a new state of mind that finds magic and the uncanny in common events, attempting to re-enchant modern experience beyond the rationalism of Descartes and others. The surrealists' evocation of the uncanny, however, was not the abstract spirituality of the symbolists; instead it resulted from the surrealist artists' search for sacred mystery in the moment itself, combined with their responses to war and social catastrophes that altered the twentieth century. In their art, surrealist artists incorporated responses to industrialization, mechanization, and records and memories of the blasted faces and bodies of war. In the history of ideas, it engaged utopian politics, occultism and alternative religions, as well as archaic images from the pre-Christian past. This makes surrealism complex, and it has been prone to many interpretations, many of which are correct simultaneously. Specifically, surrealists intended to transform modern consciousness to evoke a special state of mind: the surreal. Popularly used to suggest anything strange or weird, the surreal has roots that extend from archaic thought through medieval supernaturalism to Romanticism. The surreal allows for the fluid or ambiguous embodiment of the perception of sacred power in an ordinary event, object, or mood. In this unusual stance, the ordinary takes on marvelous qualities and is transformed into the extraordinary. The surreal is not, therefore, a noun or adjective with a specific definition but rather a practice or experience of the world leading to an altered state. oday the sky is the limit to exercise your imagination, intelligence, and ambitions. “Everything is possible” could be a motto of present and future digital artists. I’m trying to prove it in every one of my modest creations. Never-ending combinations of renderings, lightings, and/or shape deformations bring you the sensation of full liberty. There are no more hours of a laborious painting routine.