Video: Joe Sorren's "childish" surrealism
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Surrealist paintings always attract more attention than the work of their "traditional" counterparts. And all because they make you think, reflect, call to solve the riddle - what did the artist mean by depicting that specific plot in those specific colors and with specific characters that we see on the canvas? And what exactly does it mean. And paintings by an American artist Joe Sorren - not an exception. Joe Sorren sees our world from a special angle. He sees people as dolls, adults as children. At least, the faces of all his characters are naive and childish, although sometimes something elusively adult slips in their images. It feels like the awkward child in the illustration desperately wants to grow up, but something doesn't let him go.
This amazing surreal world bewitches and lures with its awkward charm, under the spell of which such celebrities have fallen as actress Patricia Arquette ("The Stigmata", "True Love", "Lost Highway"), her brother David Arquette ("Scream 1, 2, 3 "," Unkissed "," Spot Agent ") and Nike President Mark Parker. Joe Sorren has also done illustrations for Rolling Stone, Juxtapoz and the Los Angeles Times.
His amazing paintings have been exhibited in contemporary art galleries both in the United States and abroad. You can get acquainted with the work of Joe Sorren on his personal website.
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