Sebastian ericsson artist information biography

Surrealist works of art aren’t just insanely cool, they’re also ridiculously insightful. The exceptional power of surrealism is manifested in the viewer’s instinctive emotional response to images that use the juxtaposition of the most unlikely symbols to convey the most relatable feelings.

Surrealism can capture the essence of an inexplicable dream, an unidentifiable emotion, or whatever other indescribable by-product of the subconscious an inspired artist might encounter.

In the “Surrealist Manifesto” (1924) French poet Andre Breton, the founder of the surrealist movement, wrote that surrealism was meant to express the real functioning of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.

Indeed, in actuality, the images created by our subconscious during a dream state may be closer to the truth than the scenes surrounding us in the physical world.

As reality is arguably an illusion itself, bringing delusional dreams into