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New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting

New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting—a new book by artist and author Robert Zeller.

The book can now be purchased for pre-sale on Amazon:
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08/20/2025

Remedios Varo is a featured artist in “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller.

Varo had a lifelong belief in magic. She thought that plants, humans, and the mechanical world were interrelated, and she tried to show those connections in her work. The imagery in her compositions reflects a balance between mathe-matical and mechanical schematics and superstitious mysticism.She studied the I Ching and the mystical writings of George
Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky, and Meister Eckhart, as well as science, psychology, and sacred geometry.

“New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the many ways in which the most significant art movement of the last century continues to be relevant today, featuring an international selection of contemporary artists whose compositions and studio practice reveal its influence.

Pictured: Remedios Varo, Creation of Birds, 1958, oil on Masonite, 20 5/8 x
24 5/8 inches (52.4 x 62.6 cm).

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01/27/2025

Ruprecht von Kaufman is a featured artist in "New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting" by Robert Zeller.

Ruprecht von Kaufmann’s lush imagery functions on two levels: surface texture and compositional narrative. The tactile quality of the surface of his paintings lends itsown weight to the story, achieved by thick, viscous paint in some areas and thinner, transparent application in others. Von Kaufmann paints on a variety of substrates,including aluminum, paper, and linoleum, which he often carves into.

"New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting" by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the many ways in which the most significant art movement of the last century continues to be relevant today, featuring an international selection of contemporary artists whose compositions and studio practice reveal its influence.

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01/16/2025

Fabrizio Arrieta is a featured artist in “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller.

Fabrizio Arrieta portrays the artist as translator, a mediator between different artistic traditions, that in his work are caught in a feedback loop of diverse meanings and origins. He transforms visual references taken from social media posts and fashion into fashionably elegant geometric abstractions of drapery and human forms. His work speaks to the dissonance between fashion, the trappings of wealth, and a mysterious fragmentation of material existence, where distortions play out psychologically as well as physically.

“New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the many ways in which the most significant art movement of the last century continues to be relevant today, featuring an international selection of contemporary artists whose compositions and studio practice reveal its influence.

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01/10/2025

Laura Krifka is a featured artist in “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller.

Krifka grew up in Los Angeles and received a Master in Fine Arts from the University of Santa Barbara in 2010. She works across disciplines in drawing, sculpture and video with a primary focus on painting. Heavy on the exploring the psychology of desire, Krifka dissects the way power and identity are constructed in visual culture, and is interested in how the language of art history has blended with film and photography. Facts, things we are certain of, are a tenuous proposition in the current collective experience.

“New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller robzellerart offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the many ways in which the most significant art movement of the last century continues to be relevant today, featuring an international selection of contemporary artists whose compositions and studio practice reveal its influence.

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01/07/2025

Roberto Matta is a featured artist in “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller.

Chilean artist Roberto Matta was introduced to the Surrealists in Europe and the United States via his time serving in the Merchant Marine. The Surrealist leader André Breton introduced him to the leading members of the Paris Surrealist movement, and encouraged him to produce illustrations and articles for the Surrealist journal Minotaure. This early involvement with the Surrealists helped to launch his career.

One of the Non Objective (abstract) Surrealists, his most famous body of work, the “inscape” series, or Morfología psicológica, was Matta’s own version of Automatism and features diffuse light patterns and bold lines and colors against featureless backgrounds. This was his attempt to convey the human psyche in visual form as filtered through the writings of Freud and into the artist’s mind as a three-dimensional space: an “inscape”, as opposed to a straightforward landscape.

“New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller robzellerart offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the many ways in which the most significant art movement of the last century continues to be relevant today, featuring an international selection of contemporary artists whose compositions and studio practice reveal its influence.

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12/14/2024

Egon May is a featured artist in “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller.

May takes Surrealistic iconography and mixes it up with monochromatic images of classic paintings and reassembles them using antique prints as a base that are pulled from either wood or copper plates. Less s*xualized than Max Ernst’s, May nonetheless uses many of the Surrealist master’s tropes (including Victorian interiors, various species of game birds, and architectural motifs) to produce a series of collages that very much evoke Ernst’s style in his collage novels, which besides “Une Semaine de bonté” include “La Femme 100 têtes” (1929; English title, The Hundred HeadlessWomen). In this work, May captures something much harder to emulate than mere technique: he successfully emulates Ernst’s aesthetic temperament while contributingsomething uniquely his own.

Robert Zeller’s new book offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the many ways in which the most significant art movement of the last century continues to be relevant today, featuring an international selection of contemporary artists whose compositions and studio practice reveal its influence.

You can order the book on Amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/New-Surrealism-Advanced-Composition-Contemporary/dp/1580935699/

12/09/2024

Phil Hale is a featured artist in “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller.

The themes of s*x and death dominate the fragmented narratives of Phil Hale’s work. His use of distortion thwarts a straight representational read, lending his imagery a surreal, disorienting quality. His version of narrative storytelling is an abstracted, camera-conditioned mix of the familiar and the uncanny. These are not easy paintings to take in. Borrowing images from a variety of visual media—from wartime correspondence footage to hardcore stag films—Hale blends them into scenes of emotionally detached violence. Even the images set in daylight seem to take place in the dark night of the soul.

“New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the many ways in which the most significant art movement of the last century continues to be relevant today, featuring an international selection of contemporary artists whose compositions and studio practice reveal its influence.

You can order the book on Amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/New-Surrealism-Advanced-Composition-Contemporary/dp/1580935699/

11/24/2024

Miles Johnston is a featured artist in “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller.

Miles Johnston is a graphic artist known for ethereal pencil drawings with heavy undertones of Symbolism and Surrealism. Johnston’s psychologically charged, dreamlike compositions are full of faces and bodies that have been distorted. Some are sliced, melted. Some are set in interiors, some landscapes of the mind. His works visually express the thoughts, fears, and emotions hidden inside the minds of their subjects. He is Inspired by the graphic works of 20th-century surrealists M.C. Escher, Zdzisław Beksiński, Takato Yamamoto and Ernst Fuchs.

“New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” by Robert Zeller offers a sweeping exposition of both historical Surrealism and its legacy in the world of contemporary art. It demonstrates the many ways in which the most significant art movement of the last century continues to be relevant today, featuring an international selection of contemporary artists whose compositions and studio practice reveal its influence.

You can purchase the book on Amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/New-Surrealism-Advanced-Composition-Contemporary/dp/1580935699/

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