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Mateo Dineen’s Beasties are born at a Flea Market and Grow into Fine Art

Mateo Dineen is an artist from San Francisco who now lives in Berlin, Germany. His art process begins with finding interesting, unusual objects that are sold at flea markets around Berlin. He takes these home with them and gives them a second chance at life as an art work by covering his found objects with pop surrealist paintings of cute monsters, appealing aliens and lovable robots. From old picture frames to suitcases and tea trays; if an object captures Dineen’s imagination, he takes it under his wing.

Dineen’s art is delightful in that he creates personified creatures that express human emotions through an inhuman form. Although each character has a personality of its own, pretty much anyone can relate to his characters because of their human emotions. While his little beasties are nearly human in their personality, they are anything but human in their form. Dineen takes inspiration from the old, lost, broken or weathered objects that he finds at flea markets and incorporates the aesthetic of these objects into his paintings. Rust, scruffy fur, worn out buildings and weathered wood are all textures in Dineen’s art works that are inspired by the world around him and his experiences in Berlin. His enjoyment of his own environment is apparent in his character’s responses to the environment that the artist has created for them – he expresses his own comfort and joy at his circumstances through each of his characters.

Influences of the great artists Dr Seuss, Jim Henson and Tim Burton can be seen in Mateo Dineen’s art works in his character designs and aesthetic style, and like the characters that were created by those artists, Dineen’s creatures appeal to audiences both young and old. You can buy prints, t-shirts, puzzles and books of Mateo Dineen’s art online at Zozoville or see more work by this artist on his Facebook page.

A scruffy monster has fun on a kids playground toy in this pop surrealist painting by Matteo Dineen


A cute and weird monster draws a portrait of himself in this funny pop surrealist painting by Matteo Dineen


A cute monster by Matteo Dineen expresses human emotion in this pop surrealist painting on an old suitcase


A fluffy monster gives up the ghost in this pop surrealist painting on a found object by Matteo Dineen


A rusty olf robot walks doen the road in this found object pop surrealist painting by Matteo Dineen


An old painting becomes a canvas for Matteo Dineens alien monster that walks down a river after getting lost


An old piece of wood become a canvas for artist Matteo Dineen who paints two monsters looking at a sign that read This Is Normal


Artist Matteo Dineen expresses how frustrating a windy day can be in this cute monster painting


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November 11, 2013 Catherine Nessworthy Mayhem & Muse

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20 Hours of Illustration in 11 Minutes – Sebastian Koever’s “Endlessness”

In this time lapse video, Sebastian Koever illustrates a busy fantasy world in black ink on card. The scene is so complex that anyone who starts looking at it can’t help but stare at it for a while, allowing themselves to be drawn into the world along wooden pathways and around relics from the past. […]

November 12, 2013 Catherine Nessworthy Mayhem & Muse

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This is how People React to Practical Jokes in Public

Ross is a guy who wanders around pulling pranks on random strangers in public. He’s been arrested for jumping over a cop, has kissed people he doesn’t know, and has fallen on his butt dozens of times to further his cause of creating humor and confusion in other people’s lives. This guy’s got a bit […]

November 8, 2013 Catherine Nessworthy Mayhem & Muse
  • November 11, 2013
  • by Catherine Nessworthy
  • Art Installations, Humor, Illustration
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