Artist: Jacek Yerka

Jacek Yerka is a Polish painter who has studied the northern European masters: Van Eyck, Dirk Bouts, Robert Campin, Hieronymus Bosch, and surrealist Rene Margritte. His fantastic style resembles some of the great surrealists.

   

   

      

Video: Super Mario Bros is Surrealist Art

Mike Rugnetta of PBS Idea Channel presents the case that "Super Mario Brothers Is The World’s Greatest Piece Of Surrealist Art."

We all know who the Mario Brothers are but have you ever stepped back and tried looking at those games from a fresh perspective? Like you’ve never seen or heard of them before? They’re bananas! There are armored turtles who stand on their hind legs and steal princesses! There are bullets with FACES! We make a case for Mario’s inclusion into a canon of art wider than “Video Game”: we think Mario is a piece of surrealist artwork.

Photography: Victor Enrich

Twisted Cities by Victor Enrich

Spanish photographer Victor Enrich has two skills: taking amazing architectural photographs and then twisting them via photo manipulation to create astonishing architectural anomalies. Personally, they look like great zombie-defense fortresses, so maybe he’s onto something.

Painting: Contessa with Squid

"Contessa with Squid" by Omar Rayyan