The artistic style of surrealism

Surrealism works pay more attention to details and objects. Surrealist painting and sculpture are not a strict interpretation of photos, nor are they written descriptions of a scene or theme. Instead, they use other often subtle painting elements to create realistic illusions that do not actually exist or are invisible to the human eye. In addition, they may include emotional, social, cultural and political theme elements as an extension of optical illusion, which is different from photographic realism.

Surrealist painters and sculptors use some mechanical methods to transfer images to canvas or molds, including pre-painting, priming and molding. Basic techniques, such as slide projector or multimedia projector projecting pictures onto canvas and grid, are also suitable for ensuring accuracy. Sculpture is made of polyester and directly applied to human body or mold. Surrealism needs superb technology and skills to simulate a false reality. Therefore, works often combine and take advantage of the limitations of photography, such as depth of field, angle of view, focus range and so on. There are some anomalies in digital photos, such as fragments, which are also used by some painters to emphasize their digital sources, such as Chuck Close and Dennis Peterson.

Surrealist paintings and sculptures create a tangible solid and practical sense of existence through subtle lighting and shadow effects. Surrealistic paintings are often 10 or 20 times that of the original reference photos, but they retain extremely high color resolution, accuracy and details. Many works are realized by pen spraying, using acrylic resin, oil or both. Ron mueck's lifelike sculptures are much larger than the real thing. Through the careful use of polyester resin and various molds, the details of the work are very convincing.