James Jean is a Taiwanese American artist who produces art both commercially and for gallery exhibitions. His psychedelic scenes have been featured on the covers of DC comics and on album covers for Atlantic Records. He’s also worked with the famous clothing design company Prada as well as Rolling Stone magazine and Playboy magazine. Jean’s […]
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 […]
Marcel Witte is a photorealistic painter from the Netherlands who paints surrealist and photorealistic images of animals. Some of his paintings are simply beautiful portraits, but others have a single human element added to the scene that personifies the animals and gives them character. Witte has this to say about his paintings; “In my artwork, […]
Ryohei Hase is a Japanese illustrator and artist who creates surrealist art with a dark appeal. Twisted images of animals, abstract forms and human beings spring from Hase’s mind onto canvas, paper or a computer screen in a barrage of artworks that leave the world gasping for more. Some of his art borders on disturbing […]
Little is known about Mexican painter, illustrator and graffiti artist Dhear One, though this interview with Veemente reveals a little about his background. Dhear One grew up around graffiti artists who influenced his interest in art and taught him how to create graffiti murals. He merged his skills and talents with a passion for biology, […]
Eric Fan is an artist and illustrator from Toronto, Canada, who specializes in apparel design. His illustrations have found a place on cell phone covers, t-shirts and tote bags through websites such as Society6 and Threadless. Eric Fan’s art work combines steampunk and fantasy imagery with antiquated illustration styles, resulting in illustrations that combine modern ideas […]
Jia Xing Yap is a young artist from Malaysia who specializes in funny Photoshop paintings. His work is reminiscent of the styles used by Tiago Hoisel, Sam Nielsen and Denis Zilber who all create humorous digital art works. Photoshop paintings like these fall roughly into the modern realm of pop surrealism, combining realistic textures and shading with caricatures […]
Ray Caesar was born in London, England in 1958. He describes his childhood art as “atypical and aberrant” as it was unlike the bright pop art of the 60s and 70s. Drawing inspiration from Classical, Baroque and Romantic era paintings, Caesar creates fantasy scenes that include innocent young girls, sensual young women or ageless divas. […]
Japanese artist Yosuke Ueno’s painting are an interesting blend of fantasy, surrealistic styling and cartoon elements. Although his characters are all his own original designs, their cartoon styling has been around for nearly a century. His pop surrealism paintings have an innocent appeal about them, even when darker symbolism appears in the art work in […]
Naoto Hattori creates bizarre surrealist paintings with an otherworldly feel. Most of his paintings seem to be set in a bygone colonial era, with backgrounds of carefully created and tended gardens; the kind of landscape you’d expect to see on the grounds of an estate house. Hattori brings in both human and animal elements to […]