The Society for Art of Imagination presents an exhibition featuring artists from Canada and across the world. Each artist has a personal perspective of the imaginary world around us. Ottawa artists include Bhat Boy and Tick Tock Tom.Ahh, the summer is finally here. You are sure to enjoy this fantastic collection of artwork from our gallery artists.

The next edition of the International Surrealism Now will be hosted in the Historic building of the 18th century Palacio da Lousã.

International Surrealism Now is a project by the surrealist painter Santiago Ribeiro, who has dedicated himself to promoting the surrealism of the 21st century, through exhibitions worldwide.

The "International Surrealism Now" began in 2010 in Coimbra, when Santiago Ribeiro conceived a major exhibition organized by Bissaya Barreto Foundation. This event has been in Conímbriga celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Monographic Museum (second most visited museum in Portugal). The show has also been in Paris with the support of GAPP - Art Gallery Portugal Presente and Liba WS, organized once again by the Bissaya Barreto Foundation and Santiago Ribeiro, and in Madrid with the support of Yamal Din. After that it went to Dallas with the support of the american surrealist artist Shahla Rosa.
Lately it has been presented at the medieval Castle of Paço da Ega, organized by Rede de Bibliotecas and House Mayor of Condeixa-a-Nova and at gallery Vieira Portuesense located in the center of the city of Porto's second largest city of Portugal.

At present, the "International Surrealism Now" includes artists from 28 countries: Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Spain, USA, Philippines, France, Holland, Indonesia, England, Iran, Iceland , Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, Vietnam.

The exhibition consists of a variety of artworks including drawing, painting, photography, digital art and sculpture.

Artists:
Agim Meta, Ana Neamu, Anna Plavinskaya, Andrew Baines, Asier Guerrero Rico ( Dino ), Brigid Marlin, Daila Lupo, Dan Neamu, Daniel Hanequand, Daniele Gori, Edgar Invoker, Egill Eibsen, Erik Heyninck, Ettore Aldo Del Vigo, Farhad Jafari, France Garrido, Francisco Urbano, Gromyko Semper, Héctor Pineda, Hugues Gillet, Isabel Meyrelles, Keith Wigdor, Leo Plaw, Liba WS, Lubomír Štícha, Ludgero Rolo, Lv Shang, Maciej Hoffman, Magi Calhoun, Maria Aristova, Martina Hoffman, Mehriban Efendi, Naiker Roman, Nazareno Stanislau, Octavian Florescu, Oleg korolev, Olga Spiegel, Otto Rapp, Paula Rosa, Pedro Diaz Cartes, Rudolf Boelee, Santiago Ribeiro, Sergey Tyukanov, Shahla Rosa, Shoji Tanaka, Shan Zhulan, Sio Shisio, Slavko Krunic, Sônia Mena Barreto, Steve Smith, Svetlana Kislyachenko, Tatomir Pitariu, Ton Haring, Victor Lages, Vu Huyen Thuong, Yamal Din, Yuri Tsvetaev and Zoran Velimanovic.

Date 11 October 2014

In the document below, find various print options. 
there are also phone cases available in my print shop

Prints are also available on deviantART - original work is graphite on matboard, original size 31 cm x 41 cm.

Short Summary

On the Spring equinox ( March 21st) of 2014, Liba W Stambollion and Gabriela Garza Padilla will launch a month-long exhibit of fifty four artists starting with a week of events. An eclectic range of International art from around the globe ranging from the Visionary Martina Hoffman to the Fantastic Zeljko Djurovic to the Surrealist Patrick McGrath Muñiz to the Indigenous Luis Eleazar Tamani Amasifuen will form one coherent exhibit of Spirit and Reflection.

Films, music, live painting, poetry and a Mayan Fire Ceremony for Peace, for balance and for Love will take place from Friday the 21st to Wednesday the 26th of March. The exact schedule will be out once we see how much money we can raise. If we raise more than we are asking for it will go towards other acts and showing the exhibit in other cities. (yes, we have offers!) 

“Ex-Convento de Santo Domingo”
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México not too far from the ancient Mayan site of Palenque.

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Grey Day At The Factory
1985
acrylic on canvas, mounted on masonite
51 cm x 36 cm

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The Museum of Contemporary Art published its first book ""Destiny to Imagination" documenting Prateep Kochabua's surrealist paintings and inspirations. The Bangkok-based Australian art critic Andrew J West provided the text for this 176-page, fully illustrated collector's book. Prateep also showcases his four new works among the 30-plus paintings in the exhibition - sharing the same title of the book - that continues until October 16, 2013.
Destiny to Imagination - Bangkok Post - Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca Bangkok)
Website: Prateep Kochabua

MOCA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Bangkok Museum of Contemporary Art
499 Kamphaengphet 6 Rd., 
Ladyao, Chatuchak, 
Bangkok 10900 
Thailand

+66 2 953 1005-7

Visionary Art Hall of Fame page
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Unpublished manuscript of a lecture, given at Central European University,Budapest, on Dec. 8, 2011.

Drawing on his knowledge of history and faith, Central European University's Matthias Riedl offered up a new interpretation of Hieronymus Bosch's famed triptych.

 The Garden of Earthly Delights
Evidently, in a closed condition, the triptych does not display much delight at all. What we see instead is a grayish pre-Copernican representation of the cosmos; the yet unfinished cosmos on the third or forth day of creation. We see the Earth as flat disc, contained in a glass-like sphere. This is probably an allusion toPsalm 33 which says that God “gathers together as in a bottle all the waters of the sea.” The same Psalm 33 is also quoted in the inscription on the painting which reads:
Ipse dixit, et facta sunt: Ipse mandavit, et creata sunt 
, "He spoke,and they were made: he commanded, and they were created."

to read the ENTIRE manuscript by Mathias Riedl, click HERE

Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" stands as one of the greatest masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance —or, indeed, any age.  I first saw the painting at the age of nine in the Prado Museum in Madrid, where — to the consternation of my parents — I spent several hours inspecting it. Even at that age, it made a deep impression on me, because I understood that it was trying to convey something extraordinary.
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1. Slide show, left panel, with full commentary
   
2. Slide show, center panel, with full commentary
   
3. Slide show, right panel, with full commentary
   

The Replacement Playlist is called 
​BOSCH PAINTINGS
and appears to include not only the Garden of Earthly Delights Series of 4 videos,
but some additional material.

Adam McLean analyses and explains this important painting by Hieronymus Bosch in great detail in a series of four videos lasting for a total of two hours.
McLean looks at the painting through an artist's eyes. He does not impose some external interpretation as most other commentators do, but instead forensically investigates the structure and the imagery used by Bosch to form his painting. 
McLean thus, perhaps for the first time, has been able to cut through the seeming enigmatic nature of this painting, and shows that it is structured around a coherent pictorial narrative. Each symbol, each group of figure, the strange forms and metamorphosed animals are shown to fit into this narrative which McLean has found in the structure of the work.
These four videos provide a clear explanation of the painting based on its internal structure, without recourse to importing external interpretations.

Adam McLean's "The Alchemy Website"

Thursday October 31st (Hallowe’en)
10:00 - 13:00

Open to the public (please register in advance) [email protected]
Tuition €20 + €5 for Materials

In this 4 hour Workshop, Guest Lecturer Otto Rapp reveals a lifetime of studio secrets, using pattern transfer, scumbling, frottage, impressing, erasing, doodling and decalcomania to evoke inner images and inspire new ways of drawing. 

The mystic Otto Rapp, also known as Bogomil, has created a large catalogue of drawings that document the inner workings of the mind. “While Surrealism provided the initial spark,” he says, 
“I do not suppress the influence of the rational and selective focus.” Through the complementary forces of inspiration and reason, Rapp’s drawings depict a many-layered labyrinth of symbols, word-plays and associations.

The workshop concludes with a tour of the artist’s studio in the Palais Palffy.

Austrian born Artist Otto Rapp is a Surreal Painter inspired by the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism and also influenced by the Old Masters of the Renaissance such as Bosch and Brueghel as well as Archimboldi and Duerer. Otto Rapp is a BFA Graduate with great distinction from the University of Lethbridge (1982). His work is found in collections world-wide.

Kulturzentrum Palais Palffy
1010 Wien, Josefsplatz 6
Tel: +43 (0) 660 377 98 71

Kinuko Y. Craft had been a favorite of mine for decades. The picture above links to her official website. 

A fabulous album of her work is found on her facebook page.

Please respect copyright 
read this information about use of Kinuko Y. Craft's art on the web

Bogomil's Court is a early painting from my most productive years in the mid-seventies.
acrylic on canvas 20"x28" 1976

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