Surreal Artist Comparison

                Tommy Ingberg is a surrealism photographer, born 1980 in Sweden. As a child he was always into art. He had a sketchbook he would draw in and always had a fascination with cameras. His first camera was a Praktica with two lenses.  Ever since then he has been photographing. He was always a good student and got good grades, it was the social aspect of school that gave him a hard time. To this day he says he still deals with those issues.  He went onto college to study for a degree in computer science. After graduating from college as a computer engineer and years went by, he realized that something was missing in his life. He was still photographing as a hobby but he found that art was a sort of therapy for him and helped him. So he started to do it more often, just for himself. He didn’t care what others thought because everything he did was for himself.

                Vladimir Kush is a surrealism artist. He was born in Russia, in a one story wooden house near the Moscow forest park Sokolniki. He started art at the young age of seven. There was an art school he attended until late evening where he was exposed to all different types of art and artist. When he was 17 he went to the Moscow Higher Art and Craft School, but just a year later he was drafted. After six months of training, the unit commander realized it was more appropriate to have him exclusively for peaceful purposes, like painting propagandistic posters. In 1987 he started to be apart of exhibitions organized by the Union of Artists. Soon he went to Los Angeles where he worked in a small home garage that he rented, but couldn’t find a place to display his paintings. Finally in 1993, a dealer from France noticed his work and organized and exhibition in Hong Kong for him. It was extremely successful and opened many other exhibitions for him. In 2001 he opened his first gallery, Kush Fine Art in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Artist Name: Tommy Ingberg

Title: Torn

Date: 2011

Description: There is a man being held down by a rock but brought up by balloons.

Analysis: Just like all of Ingbergs other pictures, this one is in a sort of black and white. There are bright clouds in the background that do highlight the picture. As you can see the person head was removed as well and balloons were put in. To the left there is some shadows that darken up the clouds.

Interpretation: I feel like this picture is trying to describe when there is something that is bringing you up and going good in your life, but at the same time there is something not so good, bringing you down in some way so you end up not really going anywhere.

Judgement: I think this piece was extremely successful and I think that a lot of people can relate to it as well. Everyone goes through something similar to this at least some point in their life.

Artist Name: Vladimir Kush

Title: Pearl

Date: 2001

Description: There are two people holding open this clam showing the brightened pearl.

Analysis: This is a very colorful oil painting. Some might see the pearl as being the sun of the sky and it happens to be in the middle of the pearl, but others could see it as the pearl being the thing that is highlighting the entire picture.

Interpretation: I see this picture as the “pearl” actually being the sun just because the whole picture is lit up.

Judgement:  I really like this painting; I think it’s so pretty. All the colors that were used go very well together.

                Both of these pictures are surrealism, similar but different in many ways. The first picture is a photo and the second photo is a painting. With the photo there had to be some editing done, but with the painting it’s completely original, no editing involved. The painting also has a lot more colors then the first picture which makes it a little more appealing to the eye. Both of these artist have different styles and it shows.