Eurosurrealist paintings of Viktor Safonkin

September 8, 2013 6:35 AM

Viktor Safonkin is an artist who classifies his style as Eurosurrealism, and could be considered more in line with Hieronymus Bosch than Salvador Dalí. Fantastic Visions has more on the artist and some of his art, and you can see a simple gallery of images without titles or details on the Art Odyssey blog. A more complete gallery of work is on Safonik's Facebook page. You can also watch a short (9 min.) film exhibited at the Viktor Safonkin`s expozition in St. Petersburg's Russian Museum.

If you'd like to sit and watch his images go by, here are three YouTube videos of just that: 1 (set to music by Steve Roach), 2 (set to Tool), 3 (unnamed musician).

posted by filthy light thief (3 comments total)

Wow, his art is fascinating. I can see why you make the Bosch connection. Great find.
posted by immlass at 7:21 AM on September 8, 2013

These paintings are crazy! Thanks for the link! :)
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 9:43 AM on September 8, 2013

Bosch meets Dali with a nod to the Orthodox Surrealist Movement and Francis Bacon.

(Just another semi-informed judgment about an interesting painterly stylist.)
posted by kozad at 9:05 PM on September 8, 2013 [1 favorite]