Fantastic Surrealist / Symbolist Art!!

[GKC_fan]

Wow! Fantastic surrealist-symbolist art by Russian painter Vladimir Kush.

And a number of his paintings have biblical allusions, for example his Horn of Babel. Here is Kush's explanation of it:

"The horn resembles the Tower of Babel - a symbol of human arrogance. According to the Bible, the people conceived the idea of constructing a tower high enough to reach heaven (or, possibly, to conquer it). Thus they wanted to put themselves at the same level as God and were punished for it. The Lord deprived them of their common language, and they could no longer understand each other. The heritage of the collapsed Tower is a lot of people who don’t understand each other and aren’t inclined to come to an understanding. Using biblical legend, the artist develops his own artistic concept. His Babel horn of plenty is a creating rather than a destroying structure. It spills out on the coast over other, more modest buildings - one-storied. But people living in “horizontal” communities are known to be much more disposed to communicate among themselves and understand each other than the residents of the “vertical” apartment towers. Thus the horn of Babel becomes a symbol of prosperity created by the post-Babel, newly limited mankind populating new shores!"

http://www.vladimirkush.com/editions.php

"There is at the back of every artist's mind... the landscape of his dreams.; the strange flora and fauna of his own secret planet..." (G. K. Chesterton)

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds." (G. K. Chesterton)

[NeilUnreal]

Cool link! Symbolism is my favorite school of art. It has had a profound influence on all of modern art (including cartoons and graphic novels), but many people are unaware of Symbolism as a genre.

-Neil

[GKC_fan]

Glad you appreciate it, Neil! Do you know any other good Symbolist sites?

[Binkster]

Wow, amazing artist! A lot of his landscape surrealism reminds me of Dali.