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ANTONIO DE MORAIS

Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
www.pbase.com/ademorais

I was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 14th, 1965. My parents are writers/poets
and I have a sister. I thank to GOD for all good things in my life. I am a physicist
and I do space science research in Astrobiology. I like musical and visual Arts.
I began taking self-taught photographs in 1975. I am fan of Claude Monet and I
learn with his paintings. For me, photography is a way of capturing a tiny part of
the beauty of Nature.
I dedicate the photographs to Emanuel, Kyra, other friends, and to my family.

FANTASTIC SURREALISM
Well, by Fantastic Surrealism I mean a new photographic technique and at the
same time a new Artistic Movement, original – previously inexistent – created
and named by me, in February 23, 2014.
Fantastic Surrealism consists of the photographic mixture of characteristics of
the Cultural Surrealistic Movement with the Fantastic Art, resulting in unique
images, without the usage of any transformation of images (only a small color
and brightness highlight) – as digital or analogical ones. The Cultural Surrealistic
Movement was created in the beginning of the 1920’s decade in Europe. The
objective was to solve previous contradictory conditions of dream and reality.
Artists painted disconcerting illogical scenes with photographic precision,
created strange creatures out of daily life objects and developed painting
techniques which allowed the subconscious to express solely by itself and/
or to express abstract ideas/concepts.
Fantastic Art is a broad and loosely defined artistic genre. It is not restricted
to any specific artistic school, geographic localization or historical period. It
can be characterized by subjective matters that convey non-realistic, mystical,
religious, mythical or folkloric subjects or events, and it is also characterized
by styles which are much more representational and naturalistic – from Nature
– than abstract ones. The Fantastic Surrealism is a new Artistic Movement
which mixtures into photographs these artistic characteristics described
above. The resulting images consist of original non-living elements of Nature
(not fabricated by humans – as woods of dry trees, bones, stones, water,
etc., and their natural physical-chemical dynamical interrelations), directly
photographed and without transformations, and that convey illusion of
disconcerting images of strange creatures alive, in movement or not, and at the
same time making the viewer subconsciously have emotions like desire, fear,
anguish, joy, etc. Also allowing the mind to express itself into abstract, mystical,
religious, mythical or folkloric aspects, etc. The photographic technique is
simple by being a direct one, and also in “macro” mode. This Artistic Movement
I call Fantastic Surrealism. (Artistic Movement by Antonio de Morais)

 VÉRONIQUE, 2014 FANTASTIC SURREALISM, COLOR DIGITAL IMAGE 1528 X 2717 PX
 ANGE, SALUT DES ÂMES, 2014 FANTASTIC SURREALISM, COLOR DIGITAL IMAGE 2717 X 2037 PX
 TROU DE VER À TRAV ERS LES PLÉIADES, 2014 TONIZATION, COLOR NEGATIVE FILM IMAGE 2067 X 2717 PX

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