TAU FINE ART

FOCUS GALLERY

January – February

2023

Joseph Kinnebrew

 

Surreal Painting

 

Some consider surrealism an acquired taste and others visual entertainment, but it is far more than that. More recently it emerged as a revolution launched by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1924, but the practice and themes of surrealism go much further back than that. Humans have expressed their subconscious visions of interpretation for thousands of years. Freedoms of our minds are not only limited by conscious experiences, but also cultural inhibitions and the confines of social limitations. Initially a state of mind surrealism is considered by many as the most cerebral of art forms. Using a multitude of media and materials surrealists themselves often astonish us with their personae, visions, and combinations of subject matter often found edgy and challenging for the literal minded. Joseph Kinnebrew is a surrealist. Kinnebrew has been a surrealist all his life with a long history of combining unlikely subject matter and the provocative demeanor of an agent provocateur. Researchers have studied his brain in efforts of discovering the differences and qualities of “re-arrangement”, accompanied by artistic temperament and uncommon abilities that seem typical of people associated with the term “Tall Poppies”. Generally they are gifted and perceive the world quite differently than most. Surrealism expands our notions of the possible, the practical and rational. Visual arts surrealism requires the artist be technically competent lest the viewer be distracted or confused by poorly executed replication of subject matter. Viewers of surrealism are well advised to look deeper, probing what often appears oppositional subject matter as a proposition and inspiration to venture further than their minds ordinarily allow.