patrickkingart: Portrait of Grand Admiral Thrawn – Surrealism Patrick King2016Digital Painting Beginning in the early 1920s, surrealism aimed to bridge the gap between dream and reality. Surrealist artists depicted bizarre, dream imagery in fine, realistic detail, often to an unnerving degree. A progression of the dadaist movement, which sought to express the idea of chaosContinue reading

patrickkingart: Portrait of Grand Admiral Thrawn – Surrealism Patrick King2016Digital Painting Beginning in the early 1920s, surrealism aimed to bridge the gap between dream and reality. Surrealist artists depicted bizarre, dream imagery in fine, realistic detail, often to an unnerving degree. A progression of the dadaist movement, which sought to express the idea of chaosContinue reading

The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state… In pursuing his perceptions of reality, he must often sail against the currents of his time. This is not a popular role… JFK (source)