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2010Flickr - …trialsanderrors - You dreamt you were a hypnotist^ Stock poster, ca. 1900
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2017Lightnin poster
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2021For photographer Eli Wirija, the highest form of art evokes an emotion in the viewer without trying
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2013Becky & Joe's latest masterpiece, a Man-Ray inspired music video for Delicate Steve
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2012Snoop Lion is born in this seriously crazy video by Eli Roth!
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2013Music Video: Have a dance with a nun in Devendra Banhart's new video
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2013Art: Luca Mainini makes surrealist collages that look like pop culture on acid
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2018"Science, maths, astrology and history" inspire Filip Custic's surreal portfolio
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2014Art: Canadian artist Dominique Pétrin creates some seriously trippy interiors
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2015Chris (Simpsons Artist)'s surreal but accurate illustrations of creative jobs
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2015Cheeky-faced characters in Tim Romanowsky’s surreal illustrations
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2015Duane Hanson's bronze flea market ladies star in surreal new catalogue
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2017Manshen Lo creates surreal, comic-inspired observational illustrations
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2015Mehdi Ghadyanloo – "a Magritte of our times"
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2018Benedikt Rugar’s illustrations for the German Design Glossary use elements of the surreal to tell a visual story
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2019Brecht Vandenbroucke is back and his illustrations are even more twisted
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2014Splendidly surreal photography series of bewigged women
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2014Art: Surreal ceramics by Sophie Woodrow are on just the right side of weird
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2022Inspired by afrofuturism and abstracted reality, Lucie Rox’s photography takes us to new dimensions
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2011Quentin Dupieux: Rubber
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2015Nuanced and deliciously strange illustration from Japanese artist Yu Fukugawa
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2013Photographer Lonneke Van Der Palen plays with your mind with alternative holiday snaps
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2017Brandon Celi’s mesmerisingly gross illustrations for Vice
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2014We talk to the curator of scintillating new Guy Bourdin exhibition
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2017KangHee Kim’s surrealist photographs act as escapism from her visa restrictions
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2012Take some time and watch this alien, drug-filled video from the inimitable AG Rojas
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2020Juli Majer’s illustrated world is surreal, sticky sweet and full of spiders
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2015The brilliant Mat Maitland is back with more luxuriously surreal collages
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2010Neo Rauch
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2025Georgia Semple’s contorted canvases mirror “the tension between perception and reality”
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2019Somewhere between adorable and disgusting: Joe Jack Chapman’s digital worlds
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2016Playful gifs with a surreal slant from Venezuelan illustrator Igor Bastidas
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2020Sarah Cliff uses wobbly lines and ice cream tones to bring surrealness to portraits and scenery
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2014Smashing prints from French surrealist Baptiste Virot
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2019Rebeka Lukošus’ self-imposed rule means her work has to be sincere and funny
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2020Delve into Kate Dehler’s surreal work where texture reigns supreme
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2009Kenneth Anger
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2015"There's a whale in that tree!" exclaim Samuel Branton's strange new drawings
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2012Prepare your quivering eyeballs for the mystical work of illustrator Dieter Van der Ougstraete
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2013Publication: Brilliantly bizarre new comics from the excellent Joseph Kessler
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2012Chris Labrooy fuses the ordinary with surrealist eccentricity
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2017"Colour, humour, sexuality, shadows": photographer Logan Jackson's surreal world
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2013Art: Tristram Lansdowne's paintings will have you suspending all disbelief
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2019October’s Things offers up wastemen, a prawn dumpling, faux prescriptions and a pink magazine
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2021Stepping into the surreal aspects of the human condition with Bryce Wymer
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2015"I crossed a river of burgers" – funny new site Photoshops your dreams
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2015Raphaëlle Martin creates a series of surreally fun Magritte-inspired gifs
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1942Confiance ... ses Amputations se Poursuivent Methodiquement (Be reassured, the amputations (of his tentacles) are proceeding methodically.)
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2019Bodily discomfort supplies the “subtle strangeness” of Melissa Schriek’s photographs
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2016Photographer Tobias Faisst has an eye for the surreal and uncanny
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2019Danny Ferrell’s colour-saturated paintings celebrate members of his LGBTQ+ community
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2012Look here for the mysterious, yet endearing, weirdness from Jaret Penner
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2020Mariano Pascual’s latest series looks at the “packed and messy” life in lockdown
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2015Sweet, surreal still lifes by Paris-based Clotilde Viannay
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2012Take a trip with Jaime Brett Treadwell's weird and wonderful radical paintings
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2018Illustrator Anil Rinat’s not-quite-benevolent dreamscapes
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2019Michaela Younge on her surreal and incredibly intricate felt tapestries
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2017Salvador Dalí takes us through the “pleasures of the grape” in a reprint of his wine bible
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2013Hind Land takes you underneath motorways with results that look out of this world
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2017Artist Eva Papamargariti takes us inside her digital dreamscapes
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2020River Cousin’s surrealist airbrushed worlds are borne from a mathematical approach
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2009Anamanaguchi
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2013Photography: Check out Francesca Ferrari's fantastically surreal photographs
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2018Brooke DiDonato’s surreal portraits leave the viewer to fill in the gaps
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2019Sawako Kabuki's latest nonsensical animation tells the tale of one girl addicted to octopus balls
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2015Thai illustrator Tanawat Sakdawisarak has a coolly surreal aesthetic
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2015The Pitchfork Review's Björk shoot was made of molasses, Theraflu and dry ice
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2016Dom Sebastian’s surreal and slippery still life campaign for Camper
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2021Do you believe in aliens? Aryo Toh Djojo asks this very question in his surrealist airbrush paintings
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2018More insane – and insanely good – work from photographer JP Bonino
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2022Bums, kettlebells and shapeups: Sally Kindberg explores tragicomedy in her exquisitely surreal paintings
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2015Charlotte Rutherford's photography reminds us that anything is possible
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2021Building worlds through set design and manipulation, Joost Termeer’s photography work is a trip
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2013Photography: Ben Thomas creates Inception-like skylines
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2015Photographer Aleksandra Kingo’s surreal, Wes Anderson-inspired fashion shoots
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2013Animation: Maciek Janicki plays god with a metropolis in breathtaking short
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2021Animator Inari Sirola finds comedy and meaning in just about anything
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2014Unexpectedly bold and surreal designs for health tracking initiative
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2016Cats Might Fly: the bizarre world of Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek
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2012Lana Del Rey pushes it further in this epic music video from director Anthony Mandler
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2016Ian Davis’ picturesque paintings of bureaucratic dystopia
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2007Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
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2025Nadia Lee Cohen’s Holy Ohio scrapes the gloss off her style and embraces the rust of rural America
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2013Music: Devendra Banhart's odd new video stars his animated alter-ego
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2013Illustration: Presenting the surreal world of Jamian Juliano-Villani
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2020Rujana Cantoni’s portfolio is abound with surrealist storytelling and a fleeting digital aesthetic
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2015Clean lines and surreal breastfeeding with illustrator Lennard Kok
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2012The strange and wonderful graphic illustration of Jordan Speer
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2016Acacio Ortas’ hand-drawn illustrations are a trip into the bizarre
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2014Photography: Eva O'Leary's beautiful, strange images capture our imagination
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2020“Be as strange and as out there as you want to be”: You’ve never seen work like Blue Rare’s before
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2013Young Colombian creative Zamir Bermeo Rhodes creates weird worlds and wonderful characters
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2013Introducing...The brawling fruit and skating dinosaurs of illustrator Dan Woodger
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2020Boilingman illustrates four fantastic fashion looks inspired by a surreal lockdown
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2013Introducing: Photographers Kila and Rusharc create giant surrealist sets
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2014Things #15: Seventy-five surrealist aeroplanes, a magic garden, and three kaleidoscopic prints!
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2016Mária Švarbová’s calm and surreal images of bathers at a Slovakian swimming pool
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2013Illustration: Keith Warren Greiman shows us how surreal the everyday can be
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2013Annie Collinge shoots Julie Verhoeven with weird and wonderful results
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2013Illustration: Weird yet strangely enticing editorial work from James Chong
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2019The work of Xiangyu Liu is weird and fantastically unpredictable (some NSFW)
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2013Art: Eun Ji Ryu conjures up a weird painted wonderland
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2017Stephan Dybus’ painted illustrations combine humour with misfortune
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2019Ruud van Empel’s uncanny photographs blend artificiality with naturalism
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2014Giant surreal graphite drawings from the inimitable Frank Magnotta
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2016Jack Davison shoots a surreal dinner party for Luncheon magazine
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2017Illustrator Ram Han’s Alice in Wonderland dreamscape
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2015Guy Bourdin's surrealist 70s shoe campaign puts racy images within racy images
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2018Photographer Julien Martinez Leclerc captures curated truth with surreal perspective and a geometrical eye
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2021Flore Chemin constructs “runny landscapes” decorated with “grotesque and unsettling beings”
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2014Photography: Erwan Fichou takes baffling pictures of people in trees!
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2012Hold on to your head: Matt Wisniewski's surrealist portraits will blow your mind
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2017Stina Löfgren’s softly-coloured line drawings capture the surreal in everyday life
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2013Things 2013 #3: Things gets drunk on cider, washed up, washed out and then draws its dreams
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2009Just What I Never Wanted
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2022Painting characters like you’ve never seen before, Zac Yeates’ artworks are hilariously weird
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2020[email protected]?v=1589274432
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2016More salaciously surreal illustrations from French duo Mrzyk & Moriceau
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2016The mystery of illustrator Dylan Jones
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2015Clay Hickson's beautifully surreal back-to-school designs for London Graphic Centre
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2023Rosie Barker’s illustrations invite you into a “surreal and enchanting visual realm”
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2021Photographer Ryan Hopkinson uses in-camera tricks to create surreal imagery
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2012Umbrellas, girls, guns and explosions come together in Anna Burns and Thomas Brown's new work
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2019How Anthrox Studio designed a surreal habitat for the music of Black Midi to live within
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2012Ukrainian artist Lewel makes unashamedly crazy illustration
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2024Riikka Sormunen puts blind trust in her daydreams to create intricate escapist paintings
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2015This evocative, surreal universe of drawings is Daehyun Kim's life's work
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2013Art: Surreal urban landscapes full of strange narratives from Amy Casey
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2014Illustration: Curious stories told with drawings by Karolis Strautniekas
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2016Salvador Dalí’s illustrations of aphrodisiacs and more in a reprint of his exotic 1970s cookbook
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2017Sideshow poster 2
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2018Paul Cabon confronts the inevitability of going bald via a surreal animated short
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2018From cows drinking to Maison Margiela bags full of eggs: Julia et Vincent's dreamlike photography
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2019Artist Katja Seib's surreal ongoing project is to paint the never-ending story in her head
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2016Sexual, surreal and disturbing: the weird work of super-skilled Claudia Maté
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2014Animated shenanigans and Snoop Dogg in Tomás Peña's amazing video
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2005Julie Verhoeven
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2018Daniel Spencer's hilarious animations are "quite intensely bonkers"
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2013Some of the most oddly spectacular illustration we've seen – here's Ollie Schrauwen
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2021Young painter Shailee Mehta is already leaving her mark on the world of fine art
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2019Welcome to the Lumps: A surrealist land created by illustrator Sam Drew
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2012Olivia Bee
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2024Mat Maitland’s new book presents 15 years of surrealist-pop collages
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2023Sonya Bleiph is the creative director who deals in all things surrealism
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2014Alexander Coggin casts a surreal light across domestic scenes
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2017Nicolas Garner explores the clash of digital and organic in his hyperreal imagery
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2025A new lens on grief: Bade Fuwa is constructing soft and surreal scenes to process his past
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2013The future bleeds into the past in the stunning paintings of Neo Rauch
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2018Bafic's surreal new music video considers the realm of dreams
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2019Clowns, graveyards and split trousers: the surreal worlds of Līva Kandevica
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2021Lou Escobar’s photographs position the human subject between the real and the surreal
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2020Yana Pan’s latest animation predicts an all-too-familiar mystery known as 0000E8
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2014Mária Švarbová's figurine-like photographs are strangely hypnotic
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2019Panorama’s photographs and illustrations blur the real with the imaginary
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2014Photography: The brilliant mind and strange photographs of Vitaliy Kliushkin
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2024Alice in Wonderland but make it Khruangbin: Inside the video for the band’s single May Ninth
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2024Samuel Almansa lends his airbrush style to ceramic-like portraits of animals
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2011Entrances 2 Hell
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2014Fabrice le Nezet releases an astonishing, surreal animation called Mother
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2017The surreal and hypnotic photography of Utah-based artist Daniel Everett
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2026Diogo Potes’ paintings take poetic licence to a whole new level
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2007Guy Bourdin
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2024Adam Baker watches like a realist and comes out with paintings that are truly surreal
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2024A chat with Glen Baxter, the “Yorkshire surrealist” who’s spent decades drawing cowboys in strange scenarios
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2017Igor Bastidas creates surreal, 90s-inspired worlds “from his subconscious”
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2019Join us on the confusing, surreal acid trip that is Jack Wedge's animation Goodbye Mommy
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2012Erwin Wurm creates giant surrealist sculpture for New York hotel
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2014Annabel Miedema creates a beautifully strange series of family scenes
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2014Music Video: Mimi Cave dismembers bodies with charm for Magic Man
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2019The theatrical world of photographer Maria Ziegelböck
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2025Eraserhead - Filmex '77 poster
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2017Old School Trolls Zine illustrates boob-shaped bongs and wide-smiling trees
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2020The Hitch-Hiker (1953 poster)
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2015Sexy and somewhat freaky drawings by Bernharda Xilko
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2015Candy colours, surreal scenes and unconventional couples in Bex Day's Manic Ovation series
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2020Surrealism, Bjork and alcohol felts collide in Jimy De Haese’s dreamy illustrations
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2014Music Video: Ninian Doff's fantastically surreal video features a dance-off between bankers
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2015Eric Petersen's surreal illustrations take their cues from video games
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2013Bold, surreal commercial illustration from Madrid creative Velckro
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2015Surreal paintings of contorted figures from Los Angeles artist Alex G
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2018Michael Marcelle uses photography to build a "strange new kingdom"
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2014Clap your eyes on this glorious new shoot by the Toiletpaper gang for Dazed
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2014Art: Check out Daniel Zender's wonderful nightmare paintings
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2025The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - US Poster
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2016Hiroyuki Ishii's digitally drawn dreamscape interiors
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2016Benedikt Luft's Daily Drawings are a surreal quotidian treat
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2015Surreal depictions of public space and its temporary inhabitants by photographer Michael Martin
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2014Illustration: Watch Ryan Travis Christian turn charcoal into surrealist nightmares
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2013Vibrant surrealist landscapes form the late, great Ken Price
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2012Guns, babes and haze – the trippy style of photographer Neil Krug
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2017Dax Norman’s weird and wobbly animations with “cigarettes and eyeballs a plenty”
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2022Self-pleasuring computers and fighting frogs: Dive into the spectacularly weird animations of Alistair Nicholls
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2018Adelaide Ivanova's photography blurs fact with fiction
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2019Miner magazine evokes a narrative around men in rabbit suits and internet celebrities
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2013Welcome to the dreamy wonderland world of photographer Arjan Benning
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2008Since I Left You
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2024Summer Wagner’s surreal yet strikingly familiar photographs feel like hyperreal paintings
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2017Andrew Onorato’s surreal short about a genie and his eggy housemates
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2018Get to know Brian Galderisi's freakishly funny photographs
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2014Hilarious and surreal Mercedes-Benz film follows a manic search to define luxury
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2026What if your finger turned into a slug? In Lily Shaul’s surreal animated world, nothing needs to make sense
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2020Puzzleman Leung constructs a narrative through props in a series to make you look twice
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2012Madame Peripetie's eccentric photographs are weird but oh so striking
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2014Seatbelts and sunglasses on, the new KENZINE is inspired by David Lynch
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2022There’s more than meets the eye in Paulina Almira’s quietly sinister, candy-coloured illustrations
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2015The bizarre, twilight world of Berlin-based photographer Maxime Ballesteros
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2019Woshibai's hilariously clever comics explore themes of mundanity and reverie
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2019Anna Degnbol’s music video for Flunkie is like “napping in the sun and having a weird dream”
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2014Set Design: Gemma Tickle makes balloons like you've never ever seen them!
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2018Posturing is a celebration of haphazard, surreal and aesthetically odd contemporary fashion photography
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2015Simple scenes and surreal poses from Japanese illustrator Noritake
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2019María Ramos illustrates bad bats, sleepy eggs and a boy made out of bubble gum
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2016Seeing double: Loewe's surreal, playful AW16 collection shot by Jamie Hawkesworth
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2025Sierra Montoya Barela’s paintings are a tribute to interior design, plants and birthday cakes
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2016Ones to Watch 2016: Artist and illustrator Louisa Gagliardi
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2018Photographer Luca Tombolini captures the surreal perfection of the desert
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2018Garrett Davis' beautifully silly animations are beyond comprehensible
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2021Enter the labrynthine universe of surrealist illustrator Dani Choi
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2015Danish illustrator Rune Fisker’s clean, windswept surrealism
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2012Simon John Thompson might just be the craziest illustrator alive
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2021Anthony Eslick uses the tension between horror and humour in his surrealist airbrush illustrations
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2014Illustrator Lili des Bellons creates a surreal, soothing alternative universe
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2019Alexandre Louvenaz on making audiences awkward with his animation series, Jamir at Home
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2016Matthew Brooks' stylised office spaces offer an alternative glimpse into the mundane
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2012Uncanny fictions in still life by Matthieu Lavanchy and Jonas Marguet for Verities Magazine
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2013Bright, bizarre and brilliant illustrations from John Chae
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2022Digital artist Damo is placing 3D where it should be, and human faces where they shouldn’t
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2014Ghost World meets Adrian Tomine, check out the spectacular R. Kikuo Johnson
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2014Illustration: Andrea Wan’s enchanting drawings are spectacularly surreal and modern
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2013Art: The wonders just keep on coming from artist Oliver Jeffers and his surreal painting
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2013The Weekender: Look closely children, what has the internet spewed up for us?
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2022Bizarre, disarming, apocalyptic and somehow funny too – deciphering the incomparable work of Heather Phillipson
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2015Lustful surrealism in Mrzyk & Moriceau’s dreamlike, risqué illustrations
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2019It’s cheese but not as you know it: ManvsMachine’s TV ads for Castello
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2022“I love this idea of creating worlds and places that people can escape to”: Jenny Brough on her hypnagogic photography
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2012Let painter Michael Dotson lead you through gateways to new worlds
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202499 Designs but Surreal ain’t One of Them
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2025Michael Ezzell turns literature into picture books with surrealist illustrations
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2016More bonkers and surreal selfies from Izumi Miyazaki
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2020Armands Freibergs’ experimental works recreate surrealist paintings as 3D environments
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2022Combining surrealism and synth music, Jack and Tom Hudson escaped the monotony of lockdown with their short film Subconscious Drool
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2022From Bauhaus to The Simpsons: how nostalgia and minimalism inspire Kanioko’s vibrant illustration practice
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2017Aleia and Alex: a surreally stylish pair of photographers
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2021Exploring the beauty in post-production with photographer Matias Alfonzo
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2012Nash Edgerton brings us a brilliantly violent, cheese-fest of a Bob Dylan video
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2016An insight to Teun Hocks' surrealist self-portraits
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2017Stefan Bladh constructs alternative realties from his travels across Europe
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2019Cheng-Hsu Chung's animations “break the border of reality and surreality”
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2012Marcus Mrugalla has an alter ego that allows him to make stunning work
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2019Your Ass Sucks Buttermilk! Violet Luczak mixes graphic design and painting to take on the dairy industry
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2016Weird and wonderful gifs from the mind of Sasha Katz
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2013Mountain Dew let Tyler the Creator direct their new ad with weird, goaty results
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2010Roger Dean
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2012Terry Gilliam's asleep on a horse, but looking incredibly sharp thanks to Adrien Sauvage
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2019Craig Oldham reaches through the cinema screen and returns with a book lifted from another world
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2013Art: The sultry mystic gods and goddesses of Alberto del Pozo
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2018Hart Lëshkina builds a surreal version of reality in its photographs
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2014Art: Beautifully ethereal, surrealist paintings by artist Marie Rosen
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2017Step into the wonderfully weird illustration world of Inkee Wang
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2021Jaenam Yoo’s illustrations are surreal “but in a simple, intuitive way”
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2019Take a tour round Izumi Miyazaki’s weird and wonderful creative process
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2012Food photography or the underworld? Who knows. Meet Nadege Meriau.
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2022Michelle Watt’s surrealist imagery tells complex and delicate stories of the Asian-American experience
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2011Erik Madigan Heck
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2021Saratta Chuengsatiansup turns depressing headlines into surreal renders
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2013David Lynch meets Club Tropicana – the mystical half-life of Nadja Staubli's photographs
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2014More dark, surrealist illustration from the extraordinary mind of Uno Moralez
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2016Alex Paulus’ paintings are full of misshapen characters in odd situations
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2013Music Video: Flowers bursting out of wounds in Glass Animals' Psylla
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2020Analeovy Pereznafarrate’s paintings fuse the real and her imagination to show beauty and disruption
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