Investigating Surrealism

After the suggestion from Chris that we could use somewhat unconventional interpretations of a genre, such as art movements, I started looking into surrealism. I like the idea of the juxtaposition of objects, a theme that runs through many surreal works.

 I started by looking at some of Dali's work, arguably the weirdest/surreal of all surreal artists.
I particularly like Dali's use of colour in his paintings; the colours are vivid and vibrant, without being too bright, if that is at all possible.
If I were to create a Surrealist based design for Iron Hans, I think it would be interesting to switch up the colours a little, to try and make the atmosphere on stage as strange as possible without being too obvious.

Looking at the painting above, I like the appearance of the slightly curly trees. As Iron Has is based heavily in a forest setting, ideas on how to create surreal trees are always appreciated, and this gives me a good basis to start working from.

I also took the liberty of sticking "Surrealism" into google images, and scanning for what looked interesting, or images that fit the themes I'm looking to create (anything with trees), or anything that generally caught my eye. The image with the tree definitely caught my eye, the creepy, witch finger effect. I'm going to look a little more into anything under the surreal theme, for more inspiration for my design.