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Impossibility meets Reality in Arianna Piazza’s Surreal Paintings

Arianna Piazza is an Italian artist who not only mixes media, she also creates a mix of subject matter and art styles in her paintings. Working in paint and pencil and with either paper or canvas, Piazza’s imagination gives life to a variety of obscure, bizarre and appealing creatures and characters.

Piazza’s art style is influenced by the study of human anatomy, dreams and strange stories. While the tale told by her paintings is not always immediately apparent to the viewer, the groundwork for a nightmarish story exists, allowing the viewer to create their own explanation for the imagery.

Some of Piazza’s paintings incorporate a sense of surrealism. She creates an alternate reality in which strange creatures live beneath a sky filled with floating, living human organs and animals made up of human anatomy and pure imagination. But unlike many surrealist artists, Piazza’s style is not realistic. Rather, it is as imaginative and creative as the worlds she creates in her paintings.

You can buy both original paintings and prints of Arianna Piazza’s art works through her Etsy store or like her Facebook page to keep up to date with her creations.

This trippy abstract painting by Arianna Piazza combines nature and anatomy in the form of mushrooms and a human torso


Italian artist Arianna Piazza mixes abstract art and surrealism to create her bizarre, symbolic art style
Italian artist Arianna Piazza mixes abstract art and surrealism to create her bizarre, symbolic art style


This abstract anatomy painting by Arianna Piazza gives life to the impossible
This abstract anatomy painting by Arianna Piazza gives life to the impossible


Italian artist Arianna Piazza paints female forms and fierceness in her abstract, anatomical art style
Italian artist Arianna Piazza paints female forms and fierceness in her abstract, anatomical art style


Beautiful and bizarre art work by Arianna Piazza that depicts an eyeball jellyfish and floating organ islands
Beautiful and bizarre art work by Arianna Piazza that depicts an eyeball jellyfish and floating organ islands


Strange creatures and anatomy live together in this wonderfully weird painting by Arianna Piazza
Strange creatures and anatomy live together in this wonderfully weird painting by Arianna Piazza


Anatomy and nature come together in this abstract painting by Italian artist Arianna Piazza
Anatomy and nature come together in this abstract painting by Italian artist Arianna Piazza


This painting of a bizarre alternate reality was brought into being by Italian artist Arianna Piazza
This painting of a bizarre alternate reality was brought into being by Italian artist Arianna Piazza


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February 12, 2014 Catherine Nessworthy Mayhem & Muse

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  • by Catherine Nessworthy
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  • abstract, bizarre, character, creature, lowbrow, modern, surreal, surrealism, surrealist

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