Video: Surrealism of the digital age
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Swedish artist Sven Prim is a surrealist. And he is a surrealist of the postmodern era. After all, his main tools are not a brush and paints, but a camera and a computer with graphic editors.
The main skill of Sven Prim is not at all the ability to use the Adobe Photoshop program, but the ability to find some strange, at times, phantasmagoric situations or invent them. After all, a horse bursting out of a subway car is what imagination you need to have to come up with such a thing! Pure surrealism.
And a sick woman in a hospital ward, clutching a heavy blunt object in her hand in order to meet death with dignity! Or a naked man running through the desert for a carrot attached to himself! Someone may consider this a bullshit, while others admire the originality of Sven Prim's fantasy. Absolutely everyone may not like art, but, nevertheless, Sven Prim's work is very popular. Especially among the large global brands that often turn to the master with requests to create advertising. This is what he does for a living. And some of the presented works are just an advertisement for a particular product or service.
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