James Timothy Gleeson was Australia’s foremost surrealist artist, a poet, critic, writer and curator, born in Sydney. Growing up he was fond of other surrealist like Salvador Dali.He studied at a teacher’s college for two years and attended the Contemporary Art Society. He was influenced to create surreal paintings because he was always interested in writings of psychologists like Sigmund Freud. During the 60′s he moved to a more symbolic perspective in art exploring human body. He’d paint a background and add a male naked (expressing his homosexuality). Slowly, he started expressing body parts in his paintings with just an eye or an arm. When I saw his painting, my mouth dropped open. They were so out of the ordinary and most of them were gross. Its just random body parts and backgrounds and I have no clue how he puts together such pieces. His paintings got me wondering where he gets such an inspiration? I draw too, but I’ve never thought of such an image! Even if this all began with him being interested in psychologists, I really think it takes mere talent and a great mind to think of something out of the box.
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