When it comes to paintings things get really subjective. Art is easily interpretable and it takes a keen eye to really be able to appreciate techniques and symbolism. But there are a certain type of art works that are appealing to the large majority: optical illusions. We’re attracted to the mystery and amazed how easily…

Popular music has always featured animals, way back to the days of iconic blues-men like Leadbelly who rhapsodized about farmyard creatures. Paul McCartney also revealed a baffling interest in Mary’s little lamb and some have made their love abundantly clear. Here is a list of re-imagined songs from Bryan Adams to King Crimson that demonstrates the…

Cavea Ephemeral is a cool installation created by a team of designers for the Sensorium Gran Gala of Surrealism on the main beach of Cadaques, in the north of Cataluña. Home to artists like Dalí and Federico García Lorca, this town hosts every year an event which brings together art, music and literature. A team of…

PutPut is a Swiss/Danish group based in Copenhagen, who is redefining the perception of common situations of everyday life and objects. Trying to fill the space between input and output, as they call it, they combine photography with sculpture, art installations and publishing, with the purpose of surprising the audience by transforming the ordinary into…

Sometimes there’s more to the eye than you initially perceive. Apparently just some amazing oil paintings, the works of Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak’s hide a surreal world once you take a step back and watch more closely. Through carefully placed objects, characters, coloring and shadows, there is a second image in the painting which creates…

From the humble perspective of this blogger, communication, or, to be more precise, the lack of communication is the cause of a lot of the conflicts and quarrels. This abstract idea of communication between people couldn’t have possibly have found a better representation than that of Jan Svankmajer’s Dimensions of Dialogue. While I was researching  Jan Svankmajer’s…

Creatures made out of bones, paper collages, pieces of meat mating, dolls and plasticine – all this represents just 0,1% of Jan Svankmajer’s surrealist art. Bones, dolls and a very peculiar interpretation of Alice in Wonderland. This is how I could sum up Jan Svankmajer’s Alice. The rabbit hole to Wonderland has been closed but…