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Do you remember the old commercials from the 1980's "War on Drugs"? The screen would display an egg: This is your brain. A pair of hands would crack the egg into a hot frying pan: This is your brain on drugs. And the ominous voiceover: Any questions?

When I decided to do "your brain on Surrealism", I thought about some of the qualities that many of the 20th Century Surrealists' works had in common. Of course there is a dreamlike, unreal subject. Many of us immediately think of the proto-pop and op images of Dali and Magritte. These had clear recognizable subjects and objects arranged in odd dreamlike arrangements. However some of the surrealists were far more abstract - people like Tanguy and thought-leader Max Ernst.

So what is it that hits the eye and makes these surrealists so identifiably Surrealist? One factor that I've noticed is the handling of light and shadow. With the exception of Dali the light in Surrealist Paintings is often diffuse or it seems...

Follow me on Twitter @NerdlyPainter See my images available for Royalty free and Rights Managed Licenses ! (easy peasy checkout) Statement: Art can illuminate even the most elusive and difficult to comprehend ideas. Scientific imagery can be as impenetrable as well as intriguing and beautiful. Analysis of many technical diagrams, presentations of data, and scientific images is a set of commonly accepted rules that are learned and internalized over years of study and publication. These rules and tightly codified visual metaphors help scientists communicate complex ideas mostly amongst themselves, but they could also become barriers to new ideas and insights. Valluzzi's images are abstracted and diverge from the typical rules and...