Surreal Reality

The paintings of Colville,a Canadian artist,have enjoyed high reputation in the world since the 20 th century.Colville was a realistic painter,but his works are some of surreal style,which give people an orderly feeling and a sense of mystery.All his works describe the ordinary scenes but make people feel extraordinary.This paper mainly analyzes the works of Colville and can be divided into three parts.Part One first gives a brief introduction of Colville's realistic style,and then makes an explanation about what the surreal significance is by analyzing his works.Part Two mainly discusses where the mystery of Colville works comes from which can also be divided into three sections.The first section describes the formation of Colville's character by collecting the materials about his lifetime and family life,and then concludes five main themes of his paintings,which are family and life,war and peace,female art,animals and works with symbolic meaning.Through understanding Colville's experience,the question why he chose these themes to paint.The second section mainly adopts the common elements of perceptual image to analyze how he dealt with the paintings and in which way and form he can create the mysterious sense in the paintings.The last section analyzes the similarities between Colville's works and the ancient Egyptian art which is interested in by painters.Being influenced by the ancient Egyptian art,Colville's paintings also have the mysterious feelings of the ancient Egypt.Part Three concludes Colville's understandings and viewpoints about art by collecting his materials,and the aim of understanding Colville's art is to express the meaning of life,because life itself is a mystery which cannot be understood.Therefore,for Colville who was searching for the life significance and wanted to express it,his works would show a mysterious feeling,which is also the fundamental reason why his works are full of mystery.