An Invitation (surreal blue landscape with chair and cloud)

One of my favorites. The video revealed some of the beautiful textures that, for example, live in the landscape behind the walls. I hope we stay in touch. things seem to have changed on the site.

A dream within a dream! Very captivating and challenges the viewer to layer (or uncover) their own perceptions and try to decipher the allegory from within their own understandings of the world. Bravo!

Marlene Llanes’ An Invitation (surreal blue landscape with chair and cloud) unites interior and exterior spaces. The dichotomy between indoors and outdoors in art is more important than one might think. The closed intimacy of interiors is the home of portraits, still lifes, and scenes of love, betrayal, leisure, and human intimacy. The expansive hills and valleys of exterior environments are the terrain of landscapes, nature studies, and organic forms vying for place with human-made structures. The marriage of these two diametrically opposed environments is the peak of surrealism.

At its core, surrealism is about incongruity. A headlong dive into the impossible expressed as normalcy. The viewer is presented with an image that looks real but is clearly fictitious. This is the first and perhaps foremost means by which surrealism establishes its presence. The viewer is immediately thrown into a state of contradiction where fantasy and reality bleed into each other like the sky reflected in An Invitation (surreal blue landscape with chair and cloud)’s impossible window. Famously, surrealism is built from dreams. Artworks inspired by artists' nocturnal adventures bring dreams into reality and merge fantasy and realism. Usually, reality bleeds into dreams, but surrealism drags dreams out of the internal theater of the mind and into the exterior world. Nightmares and daydreams walk backward to creation and thus establish an experience that is surreal from its very inception. In these ways, the wedding of the interior and exterior is not simply a surrealist trope but a metaphor for the entire movement and what it seeks to accomplish.