What should you know about contemporary surreal artists

Alya Khemji
3 min readDec 18, 2018
Musai by Suzi Nassif

Contemporary surreal artists such as Suzi Nassif continue the legacy of surrealism creating works that constantly evolves and is surprising. Surrealism spans from painting, film, photography, sculpture, and poetry. Suzi Nassif produces a set of designs for exhibitions in the UAE, US and many more countries. She employs a wide variety of techniques to create famous oil paintings. Contemporary surreal artists persist in charming their audiences with amazing art pieces.

1. Features element of surprise

Surrealist cut out images from multiples sources in order to create something that surprises and fresh. Artists can extract an image from magazines, for example, to make a surrealist collage. Suzi Nassif believes human consists of 2 elements, dreams, and reality. The effect on some paintings is laughter or surprise even tears in unique instances. In addition, the viewers’ interpretations, experiences complete the artwork.

2. Unpredictable juxtapositions

An artist places disparate objects side by side in a piece of art to bring contrasting effect example women heads with a bouquet of flowers. The contemporary artist uses juxtapositions to refer to an existing image and suggest new meanings for the piece of art. In Suzi Nassif’s phenomenal artwork FRIDALISM, there are various objects in the artwork such as the telephone, flowers, and a portrait. John Brosio is a mind-blowing surrealist who juxtaposes mundane scenarios in his artwork, for instance, a little girl with bats.

3. Deep symbolic language

An artist uses mysterious images to create famous oil paintings. Mystery clouds elegant models. Dali used multiple symbols in images to suggest his subconscious. The artists use symbolism in their art to stimulate and invite the viewer to connect with the piece of art. It is a purely visual and auditory experience for the viewer without spoken language.

In her recent portrait painting MINA, the artwork depicts a woman wearing a colorful hat with lit candles. The glow of the candles illuminates the paintings and makes it easily recognizable. The candles represent multiple themes for their light and shade. Artists have their own symbols. Joan Miro frequently employed vague biomorphic imagery while Max Ernst was undoubtedly obsessed with the birds.

4. Experimental media

Surrealism uses all types of media from sculpture, paintings, poetry to film.

5. Dreamy artwork

Surreal artists mix objects to create dreamy surrealist scenes. Dreams were in the heart of the surrealist movement. Surreal loosely mean dreamy. Dali paints images that no individual would imagine exists. How contemporary surreal artist are able to conjure their dreamy ideas is still a mystery. The intriguing ways in which Dali came up with the dream-inspired famous oil paintings about the melting watches are awesome. The artists unleash their primal emotions into dreamy images. The artworks are full of hallucinations, childhood memories, as well as psychotic episodes.

The contemporary surreal artist tries to keep the dream of the original surrealists alive. The artists tap into mythology to design strange creations. Surrealism is favorite for its writing and visual arts. The cleverly designed artworks contemporary surreal artists such as Suzi Nassif and Dali Salvador are a testament of their great work that universally speaks to their audience.

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