Surrealism or Fantastic Realism
Born in Akron, Ohio, and raised by creative parents, Matt Tisdale was taught early to appreciate the arts. He graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration/Fine Art. He is a family man and has multiple disciplines in the arts. He loves to paint the surreal and the fantastic.
Artist Statement: The art movement that my work relates to is Surrealism or Fantastic Realism. The defining characteristics within the piece of art are just as important as the viewer’s interpretation of my paintings. They advocate that descriptive expressions are vital, but that the sense of their arrangement must be open to a full range of imagination. Surrealism as a visual movement found a method to expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal significance, to create a compelling image that was beyond formal organization.