Massurrealism

Massurrealism is an art movement that combines surrealist imagery with mass-media influences such as advertising, pop art, and popular culture.

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James Seehafer: James Seehafer is an American artist who founded Massurrealism in 1992. He named the movement and developed its early visual language.
Photomontage: Photomontage is an image-making technique that combines photographs or photographic fragments into a composite. Its assembled fragments let artists collide unrelated media images and scenes.
Digital art: Digital art is art created or presented using digital technology. Digital tools let Massurrealist artists recombine images from contemporary media.
Hyperrealism: Hyperrealism is an art style that depicts subjects with a highly detailed, photograph-like appearance. Its fidelity to visible reality contrasts with Massurrealism’s dreamlike disruptions.
Surrealism: Surrealism is an artistic and literary movement that explores dreams, the unconscious, and unexpected juxtapositions. Massurrealism adapts surrealism’s imagery and disruptive juxtapositions.
Appropriation (art): Appropriation in art is the reuse of existing images, objects, or styles in a new work. Borrowed commercial imagery becomes material for Massurrealist transformations.
Graphic design: Graphic design is the practice of arranging text and images to communicate visually. Its commercial visual language overlaps with the movement’s use of advertising and popular imagery.
Photorealism: Photorealism is a painting or drawing approach that closely imitates the appearance of photographs. Photorealism reproduces photographic appearances rather than twisting media images into uncanny scenes.
Pop Art: Pop art is an art movement that draws imagery and techniques from advertising, comics, and consumer culture. Its use of commercial imagery helped shape Massurrealism’s mass-media vocabulary.
Juxtaposition: Juxtaposition places unlike elements close together to produce comparison, surprise, or tension. Unexpected pairings make familiar media imagery behave like surrealist imagery.