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Nancy Fout’s Everyday Surrealism

By Moss & Fog1 min read
Nancy fouts everyday surrealism

Artist Nancy Fouts has a great knack for creating art that is familiar and strange all at once.  Her surrealist creations combine objects together in impossible ways.

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Some of these designs have been explored by artists on Instagram, while others feel new and inventive.  Whether visual metaphors or just fun visual combinations, exploring Fouts’ work is a good way to exercise your creative mind. 

This groundbreaking artist died in 2019, leaving behind a large, provocative, and fantastic body of work.

Via Colossal:

Piano with grassA forlorn piano whose keys are sprouting grass.

nancy-fouts-moss-and-fog-3A hummingbird’s beak as a sharp stand-in for a record player needle.

nancy-fouts-moss-and-fog-4A pigeon wearing it’s own bread.

nancy-fouts-moss-and-fog-5Twin Cherries culminate into a pair of well-used dice.

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nancy-fouts-moss-and-fog-6A revolver covered in sharp spines.

Everyone’s favorite, the Bad Year Blimp.

The irony of a needle through the thimble.

An M-16 assault rifle made out of miniature gold figures.

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