Surrealistic Artists Part 1

Oleg Duryagin, age 26, is a Russian photographer from Moscow. Most of his work is surreal portraits. His work combines normal portrait pictures, mostly female, and adds something strange to them. The finished portraits have this very dreamlike look to them; the skin looks smoothed out and transparent. I feel that most of his photos are of people trying to gain an identity. He’s quoted as saying “Visually I am inspired by culture of fashion and surrealists. I often shock people. I try to… combine reality with artificiality.”

Salvador Dali is a Spanish surreal painter born in 1904 and died in January of 1989. Dali is credited with started the surreal movement and was very popular during his lifetime and understood how to get the attention of the media and paved the way for artists like Andy Warhol who even said he influenced Pop Art. he was most famous for his surreal art he also did Dada art and Cubism. While the paintings he did are surreal there is a degree of photographic like quality to them.