Extra Credit
This is Paul Bond's Lao Tzu's Dream. (Do you know what Lao Tzu's name means? Old Teacher. ) Yeah, I'm a total STAN. Look at how he uses hyper-realism (the stones' texture) but utterly surreal elements...you know, the tree & such...knock the viewer a little off balance. Plus, it's a little mockery of the whole hipster cairn-building fad. He's good.
Do you want to see a few more? Check out Magical Realism Art by Paul Bond and enjoy!
When I was in San Francisco, I was walking on an off street and found a bunch of giant faceless babies. When I did some research, I found the artist's name; David Černý. His creation of gigantic babies that use the same material as the building near them, but create a whole new environment, incorporate both minimalism and hyperrealism (giving the babies no faces as well as giving extreme detail to the bodies).