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!
Cash23!! 6th
This piece of art is by Beeple aka Mike Winkelmann. He is a digital artist who has created and posted new digital pictures everyday for 15 years since 2007. This image shows an emoji made out of wood being built by people from the old world. The people are dressed in clothes not of this time, and their building method is older to. This displays temporal distortion and historiographic metafiction because the first emoji was not invented until 1998, and these people are not from 1998. This does not make sense timely or historically. There is also intertextuality/pastiche because the artist is incorporating new traditions of speaking/communicating with old traditions of buildings and clothing style/practices. I love that the wood that is making up the emoji is colored yellow, red, white and black and not just the color of wood.