Video: Surrealism: talent or madness in the works of Sandy Skoglund
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Imagine a world in which humans coexist with flocks of goldfish flying around a room, a horde of blue dogs in the living room, or a crowd of babies occupying the front lawn. You can not? But American artist Sandy Skoglund can!
This is what she became famous for. At the moment, Sandy is one of the brightest representatives of surrealism in the United States of America.
Her work is on the verge of talent and madness. Although, maybe there is no edge, and these factors complement each other. In any case, in the brain of an ordinary person not burdened with these qualities, it is unlikely that such fantasies will appear that appear in Sandy Skoglund.
Making one such job takes a lot of time and labor. It is necessary to create scenery, central elements, find actors and only then photograph. People-trees, Barbie dolls sunbathing on the beach of French fries, the invasion of black squirrels in the courtyard of a private house and red foxes in a posh restaurant. And these are just a few of the hundreds of works by Sandy Skoglund.
You can argue for hours about the factors that allow an artist to do such work. But, at the same time, one cannot deny her talent and originality.
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