Wang Hongzheng ( 王宏峥 ) was born in Zhangjiakou (China), Hebei Province in 1971, and now lives in Beijing. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Tianjin Normal University, and then worked in the Oil Painting Creation Research Office of the China National Academy of Arts for further study.
Surrealism | Contemporary art
Surrealism, movement in visual art and literature, flourishing in Europe between World Wars I and II. The Surrealists sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and powerfully influenced by psychoanalysis, the Surrealists believed the rational mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighing it down with taboos. The word ‘surrealist’ (suggesting ‘beyond reality’) was coined by the French avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire in the preface to a play performed in 1917.
Zeynep Akgün was born in 1975, in Uzunköprü (Turkey). She has graduated from Painting Department in Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in 1997, where she has also done her master’s degree in 2000.
Vanessa Lemen is an award-winning painter based in Carlsbad, CA, with works exhibited and in private collections internationally. Her paintings are layered in subtle allegory, with an explorative process that intertwines realism and abstract to depict humanity, metaphor and story.
Jake Baddeley is one of the most exceptional artists in the contemporary symbolism genre. His work is an evocative mix of the mystical, the profound and the absurd. It is classical yet surreal, contemporary yet historical.
Magdalena Kępka is the Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw and the University of Physical Education in Wroclaw. She works with oil and acrylic paints and the main topic of her compositions are polish landscapes, seascapes and the architecture of hot south.
Internationally award-winning, Olivier Lamboray (1968) is a Belgian Surrealist painter who currently lives in Germany. He has been painting since 1992 and has had many successful exhibitions in Belgium, USA, Monaco, Australia, Italy, England, Germany, France, Thailand, The Netherlands, Indonesia, and Guinea.
Born in Santa Clara, Villa Clara Cuba in October, 1989. “ My work opens a door to a dreamlike world, magical, idyllic, where I create a parallel universe, a personal reflection of reality. Not satisfied by the world we live in, I create a surreal refuge that helps me face everyday life.
Alejandro DeCinti is a Chilean-Italian painter, graduate of the University of Fine Arts in Chile. He has lived in Spain since 2001. He is admitted to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, being awarded the Academic Excellence Scholarship in the 1991 admission process to Chilean universities.
Dalia Milan was born and raised in Arizona. Dalia’s parents, John and Elli Milan, own an art school called, Milan Art Institute. Growing up with both of her parents and two older sisters as successful artists, she was always surrounded by art. Being in this environment, she always felt the urge to paint and was naturally creative.