40 Creative and Bizarre Surreal Paintings by Cyril Rolando

thumbCyril Rolando is a 24 year old artist from Paris, France.  A clinician psychologist by trade, he also draws for fun, focusing primarily on the human emotions.  Despite never attending art school, Cyril’s work shines through as creative and surreal.  His inspiration comes from his experiences as a psychologist, and from Time Burton and Hayao Miyazaki.  About his artwork, he writes “This is a return to childhood, where animals can speak, dreams become reality and imagination rules the world.”

In this post, we’ll look at 40 creative, interesting, weird and bizarre paintings from Cyril.  His work resembles a surreal form of painting, though his work pushes the boundaries of every style.

On deviantART, he is known as AquaSixio, so if you like his work, check out his full gallery: http://aquasixio.deviantart.com/

Without any further a due, prepare to be amazed.

___Will_you_accept_this_rose___by_AquaSixio

Une_nuit_sous_le_lit_by_AquaSixio

There_s_no_time_to_lose

The_northstar_is_an_airplane_by_AquaSixio

The_Magic_Path_by_AquaSixio

The_dead_end_by_AquaSixio

The_cartographer_by_AquaSixio

Strangle_Oasis_by_AquaSixio

Song_of_the_soul_washer_by_AquaSixio

Somnambulant__s_instinct_by_AquaSixio

Silent_prayers_by_AquaSixio

Secret_garden_by_AquaSixio

Run__run__run____by_AquaSixio

Ronge_par_le_regret__by_AquaSixio

Requiem_for_Hope_by_AquaSixio

Purblind_Puppets_by_AquaSixio

Prismatic_by_AquaSixio

One_day_I__ll_fly_away_by_AquaSixio

Nothing_fails_by_AquaSixio

Monkeys_are_swinging_by_AquaSixio

La_fable_des_deux_grenouilles_by_AquaSixio

La_fable_de_la_girafe_by_AquaSixio

Isabelle

I_don__t_come_from___a_jungle_by_AquaSixio

I_don__t_come_from____a_city_by_AquaSixio

Heavyhearted____by_AquaSixio

Hanging_a_giant_moon_by_AquaSixio

Fix_you_by_AquaSixio

Feeding_the_crows____by_AquaSixio

Evanescent_sunrise_by_AquaSixio

Dreaming_by_AquaSixio

Deviant_insanity_by_AquaSixio

Come_September_by_AquaSixio

Castaway_in_Stardust_City_by_AquaSixio

Breathe_me_by_AquaSixio

Autopsy_of_the_Fallen_by_AquaSixio

Anno_2009_by_AquaSixio

Alien_Invasion___It__s_a_jock_by_AquaSixio

A_kiss_from_paradise_by_AquaSixio

A_cold_Chrismas_day_by_AquaSixio

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40 Responses to “40 Creative and Bizarre Surreal Paintings by Cyril Rolando”

  1. designfollow December 1, 2009 at 4:34 pm #

    great collection

    thank you

  2. Mara December 4, 2009 at 5:28 pm #

    Phenomenal.

  3. Tersa December 4, 2009 at 9:14 pm #

    amazing

  4. Cat December 4, 2009 at 10:00 pm #

    You’ve really got some stunning works! Thanks for posting them!

  5. Dee December 4, 2009 at 10:31 pm #

    Gee, I don’t mean to be a jerk, but the Isabelle picture (http://www.presidiacreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Isabelle-500×626.jpg) looks an awful lot, and by that I mean exactly down to even the same size of –> http://img1.jurko.net/wall/paper/claire_danes_3.jpg

    …but maybe that’s just me.

  6. Brukhar December 4, 2009 at 10:33 pm #

    There’s a definite resemblance, the artist might have used it as a reference. But it might be coincidence.

  7. Casey December 5, 2009 at 4:11 pm #

    Every one of these is amazing

  8. Rad_Rosa89 December 6, 2009 at 1:44 am #

    AMAZING!!!

  9. Jeff December 6, 2009 at 2:17 pm #

    In the image, the Cartographer, I notice the Square and Compasses, arranged for the 2nd degree, the Fellowcraft. After a quick surveillance of the image I noticed that there are few, if almost no, other connections to Freemasonry. Why include the square and compasses?

  10. malegamba December 6, 2009 at 11:59 pm #

    amazing work !! :) :) i love it

  11. Johnnie J. December 7, 2009 at 10:26 am #

    I loved every one of these fine pieces… Beautiful work; I would love to have something of yours for my wall…

  12. Kimmi December 8, 2009 at 12:21 am #

    Wow these are amaxing your really good

  13. a.doob December 8, 2009 at 1:28 am #

    i absolutely love these…i agree with Johnnie J. are there any prints of these available?

  14. Zemmeth December 8, 2009 at 6:55 am #

    Not only are they breathtaking there is so much depth. You can just keep staring at them…

  15. Hermitbiker December 8, 2009 at 10:47 pm #

    Some of these are real bizarre but they all seem surreal… Cyril is really a natural at this world of bizarre and surreal paintings… no need for formal training here !! Thanks Brukhar !!

  16. Rae December 9, 2009 at 1:45 am #

    truly stunning… i love this genre of art. its the kind of world i escape to when i day dream, but in something a bit more tangible. very valuable to heart like mine, thank you.

  17. Vish December 9, 2009 at 3:52 am #

    Genius!!i dunno what else to say..but your world is definitely an amazing one..:)

  18. Linda December 9, 2009 at 6:32 am #

    Does the artist reference any of his work? I know the first picture is of the actress Carly Pope and the original photograph is here: http://img.webme.com/pic/p/popularculture/carly_pope.jpg

  19. Cheyenne December 9, 2009 at 5:35 pm #

    simply AMAZING!!!

  20. Justin December 9, 2009 at 6:33 pm #

    i reeeally enjoyed these! i can relate to almost every one, and the ones i wasn’t sure about, enthralling on an intellectual and appealing level. keep them coming. :)

  21. kissmo December 9, 2009 at 7:33 pm #

    He is really a creative person.This works shows he is a talented artist.All the best for him.

  22. Ali December 10, 2009 at 10:13 pm #

    awesome! so cute
    i really liked all of them (^.^)0

  23. MJ December 12, 2009 at 3:43 pm #

    this is beautiful…. I like! I like!

  24. gilbert antonio December 12, 2009 at 8:18 pm #

    I am speechless, dazzled, indeed! Quite profound and unique ur work!

  25. JackM December 13, 2009 at 6:35 am #

    Some of these are obviously traced.

  26. Anirban December 13, 2009 at 1:09 pm #

    When tired of one world, one can easily step in yours and take a break. Share more of your mind!!!

  27. Jonathan | EnlightenYourDay.com December 13, 2009 at 9:01 pm #

    Amazing art work! That was one of the best photo collections I have found on stumble. Thanks for sharing. Peace

    Jonathan

  28. Willa December 13, 2009 at 11:45 pm #

    Your work really lends itself to children’s stories. I can imagine the most wonderfully, imaginative narrations told through your beautiful illustrations.

  29. Schahryar Fekri December 14, 2009 at 12:55 pm #

    Awesome!!!
    I really like them.

  30. Nispell December 20, 2009 at 11:04 pm #

    !……………:-)

  31. justine December 23, 2009 at 3:34 am #

    nice pics i really enjoyed them

  32. Bryan J. December 27, 2009 at 10:48 am #

    I’m kind of surprised that nobody else has brought this up yet. There is a lack of consistency in how these pictures are signed. A number are signed with either AS6 or A56 (difficult to tell given the boxy typeface) in a rectangle, a number with no signature at all, and a lone picture (the giraffe) is signed as copyright Sixio. This leads me to believe that these works come from no fewer than three separate artists as every artist understands the need to sign their work, Sixio and AS6 cannot have been the artist behind the unsigned works. Additionally, there’s the issue with the images that are based directly upon pictures of Carly Pope and Claire Danes. What I suspect happened is that Cyril Rolando’s work is on a site like Deviant Art and whomever made this post copied his work over and additionally copied over a number of images from his favorites list (favorite works from other people) and mistakenly labeled them as Rolando’s work.

  33. Bryan J. December 27, 2009 at 10:51 am #

    Wait…I just caught the line about Rolando being known as AquaSixio on DeviantArt. This explains it all. The unsigned works could have been before he learned the importance of signing your work, the Sixio piece to come from an early period of signing work, and the AS6 signature what he finally settled upon using.

  34. Talia December 27, 2009 at 11:55 pm #

    Amazing. Simply amazing.

  35. Bach'Raven December 28, 2009 at 10:40 am #

    i see a lot of memories in those paints good vision

  36. Jaden December 30, 2009 at 3:11 pm #

    Hey, these are awesome. Don’t you have a DA? I feel like I’ve seen some of htem there…

  37. jonty January 7, 2010 at 6:38 pm #

    These are very nice pieces and I bet tehy look even better in the original format.

  38. James February 6, 2010 at 12:50 pm #

    Wow, these are fantasic!

  39. brotherlouie June 19, 2010 at 7:52 am #

    I wonder what Andre Breton would say about these?

  40. Tala October 12, 2010 at 12:03 am #

    beatiful, might try to make the paintings just a little less traced looking :P But beautiful colors and concept that makes up for it tenfold ^^

    These pictures remind me of when I was a little kid and the whole world outside and inside was my pretend world. I always spent my time outside exploring the ant colonies and climbing trees and catching small critters (much to my mom’s dismay) and having picnics and just thinking, ya know? Thank you so much for the flashback to to past ^^

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