This vibrant contemporary artwork features a striking composition blending surreal elements and bold, colorful imagery. The canvas is dominated by a large, isolated ear against a vivid blue backdrop, surrounded by a lush tropical scene filled with oversized flowers, plants, and a sun-like shape. The artist employs a diverse range of techniques, including textured brushwork and collage-like elements, to create a dreamlike, almost hallucinatory atmosphere. The piece seems to explore themes of perception, sensory experience, and the relationship between the human body and the natural world, reflecting the artist's unique, imaginative vision. ...
Michael Hilsman makes non-literal paintings of objects and figures that explore the absurdity, magic, and latent spirituality of the physical world.
Utilizing formats associated with classical painting such as portraiture and still life, and employing a wide visual vocabulary ranging from naturalism to expressionism, Hilsman builds monumental paintings whose objects and figures are in a state of dissolution and fragmentation, often seeming to disattach from themselves and form anew, appearing both familiar and foreign.
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