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The Art of Surrealism. This unique website exhibits critical collections of the art of American Surrealism.
Surrealism A 20th-cent. literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious by fantastic imagery and irrational juxtaposition of subject matter. -Webster
The Surrealism below is given a variety of contemporary titles; neo-surrealism, pop-surrealism, post-surrealism, etc.

Provided are links to some Surrealism exhibits you will want to process as your start your quest.
Heterosexual Monogamy: American regionalism paintings focused on marriage.
"Using ancient and modern symbols, the exhibit stirs up emotions-the ones locked in the belly. In the detailed-filled works, several stories are being told-like a strange conversation." -Times Union
Totem Triptychs: Pop Neo Surrealistic paintings covering a wide variety of themes. Exhibited at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, CO these 36 triptych paintings allow the panels to be interchanged.
Beyond Dogma: Contemporary religious paintings such as A Deity for Darwin and Exorcism. Various images from the collection have toured the United States, from California to NYC.

Grotesque Pages: Gallery of the grotesque art. Laboriously detailed hybrid masks come alive in this grotesque art collection. Masks from the Chicago Field museum merge with studies of human facial expressions. Exhibition: Midwest Museum of Art.
Carnivalesque Collaboration: Contemporary artist appropriates teenage carnivalesque drawings. These dark images hold "outsider" sensitivities.
Pop-Mennonite: Mennonite, Amish art & culture. Explore conservative Mennonite religion in this contemporary exhibit. .
"…jarring juxtaposition of the sacred and the secular…" -Canadian Mennonite
"…carnivalesque images that manifest from cultural critique…" -Indiana Review
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