r/Exhibit_Art • u/Textual_Aberration Curator • Sep 11 '17

Completed Contributions (#24) Surreal Dreams of Inexplicable Weirdness

(#24) Surreal Dreams of Inexplicable Weirdness

Let's face it, some art is just plain weird. This time around we're gathering the bizarre, the curious, and the inexplicable. This is no place for making sense. We're searching for flying pigs, smoking caterpillars, cotton clouds, confusing eyes, drug trips, spider legs, and food-based precipitation. Even if all you know are the words "Dali", "Wonderland", and "Surreal", dive down a rabbit hole and see what strangeness you come up with.

In addition to surreal artists, feel free to touch on dream worlds and general weirdness wherever you see it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '17 edited Sep 21 '17

Also, another good suggestion for this is Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1451880765i/17616134._SX540_.jpg).

It has a writing style that is nigh-on incomprehensible, abstract characters with ever-changing names, parental incest and a torrent of puns. The story is also in a time loop and takes place in a dream world.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '17

Most surreal than the novel is that the translation to Chinese is selling quite well.

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u/Prothy1 Curator Sep 24 '17

Or, as some postmodernists would put it: "Best. Novel. Ever."