40 Creative and Bizarre Surreal Paintings by Cyril Rolando
Dec 1, 2009 Featured, Inspiration
Cyril 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.
Tags: Animals, Art School, Artwork, Bizzare, Boundaries, Burton, Creative, Cyril, Deviantart, Dreams Become Reality, Experiences, Hayao Miyazaki, Human Emotions, Imagination Rules, Inspiration, Old Artist, Painting, Paris France, Psychologist, Rolando, Surreal Paintings
December 1st, 2009 at 4:34 pm
great collection
thank you
December 4th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Phenomenal.
December 4th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
amazing
December 4th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
You’ve really got some stunning works! Thanks for posting them!
December 4th, 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.
December 4th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
There’s a definite resemblance, the artist might have used it as a reference. But it might be coincidence.
December 5th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Every one of these is amazing
December 6th, 2009 at 1:44 am
AMAZING!!!
December 6th, 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?
December 6th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
amazing work !!
i love it
December 7th, 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…
December 8th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Wow these are amaxing your really good
December 8th, 2009 at 1:28 am
i absolutely love these…i agree with Johnnie J. are there any prints of these available?
December 8th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Not only are they breathtaking there is so much depth. You can just keep staring at them…
December 8th, 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 !!
December 9th, 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.
December 9th, 2009 at 3:52 am
Genius!!i dunno what else to say..but your world is definitely an amazing one..:)
December 9th, 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
December 9th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
simply AMAZING!!!
December 9th, 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.
December 9th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
He is really a creative person.This works shows he is a talented artist.All the best for him.
December 10th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
awesome! so cute
i really liked all of them (^.^)0
December 12th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
this is beautiful…. I like! I like!
December 12th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I am speechless, dazzled, indeed! Quite profound and unique ur work!
December 13th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Some of these are obviously traced.
December 13th, 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!!!
December 13th, 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
December 13th, 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.
December 14th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Awesome!!!
I really like them.
December 20th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
!……………:-)
December 23rd, 2009 at 3:34 am
nice pics i really enjoyed them
December 27th, 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.
December 27th, 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.
December 27th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Amazing. Simply amazing.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:40 am
i see a lot of memories in those paints good vision
December 30th, 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…
January 7th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
These are very nice pieces and I bet tehy look even better in the original format.
February 6th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Wow, these are fantasic!