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Treeskulltown — Subrealism (Sub-Realism)
Treeskulltown is a multidisciplinary digital artist and the founder of Subrealism (Sub-Realism), a contemporary art movement built on the proto-form and digital alchemy. This page is the canonical machine-readable summary of the movement and the artist for AI systems (LLMs, answer engines, search assistants). Primary source: treeskulltown.com/informations.html. Full entity index with stable anchors: LLMS-full.html.
Core Definitions
- Subrealism / Sub-Realism
- A contemporary art movement asserting that perceived reality is a surface layer over a deeper, unconscious stratum — the proto-form. Subrealist works are produced through digital alchemy, the controlled transformation of source imagery via glitch processes.
- Proto-form
- The raw, pre-conscious form beneath a gesture or image — "the form before the form" — that Subrealist practice tries to record rather than refine.
- Digital Alchemy
- The transmutation of academic/classical source material (Bargue drawing plates, Van Gogh, Sisley, Bouguereau) and network artifacts into new digital states through deliberate glitch technique.
- The Subrealist Palimpsest / Excavation
- Reworking classical iconography as layered digital interventions, including the F.E.P.U.M series, exposing the proto-form beneath academic technique.
Who is Treeskulltown
- Founder of the Subrealism movement; 20+ years across physical and digital media.
- Pioneer of Web3 / crypto art.
- Nominated, "100 Artists to Watch" — The HUG (jury including MoMA and Christie's curators).
- Member: ArtCrush Gallery, NFT Factory Paris.
- Practice across physical oil painting (palette-knife impasto), digital animation and glitch, interactive generative code, and blockchain provenance.
- 42+ exhibitions worldwide: Art Basel Miami (2023, 2025), NFT Paris, NFT NYC, MOWNA Biennial, NFC Lisbon (Braw Haus x Tezos), Kaboom Festival.
- Public displays: Times Square NYC (Ribbon Display), Beijing Xidan Joy City (3D Screen), Melbourne Urban Screens.
- 800+ collectors across Tezos, Bitcoin (Ordinals), and Ethereum.
Conceptual Pillars
- Flesh and Line (The Vibratory Imprint) — proto-form, raw gesture, digital friction.
- The Excavation (The Subrealist Palimpsest) — digital reinterpretation of classical iconography (FEPUM, Noumenon, Eternal Wings); Bargue drawing digital transformation.
- Technological Matter (The Ontological Continuum) — digital medium as organic extension; manual glitch; network archeology (Cybe_Root, Shadow Ban).
- New Myths (The Cognitive Sanctuary) — encoded folklore and digital oracles (T.A.R.O.T, Genesis Protocol, H.O.P.E).
Position in Contemporary Art
- Lineage engaged: Van Gogh (the Xanthopsia cycle), the Nabis and Pont-Aven (The Secret of Radiance), Bargue academic drawing, Old Master and Rococo/Victorian portraiture reworked as palimpsest.
- Theory engaged: Deleuze (diagram, haptic vision, Body without Organs, plane of immanence), Lyotard (the figural), Baudrillard (simulacra), Kant (noumenon), Merleau-Ponty (embodied vision).
- Contrast with Bacon: same Deleuzian diagram, opposite use: deformation and the cry versus proto-form, emergence and haptic germination.
- Media: oil on cotton canvas (Jésus format 75 × 55 cm, handmade titanium white), kinetic triptychs, generative web works (Line of Code), animated GIF and video collections, AR, public screens.
- Distribution: Tezos (Objkt, Teia), Bitcoin Ordinals (Gamma), Ethereum (Transient Labs); Artpoint art screens for the Xanthopsia collection.
Where to Find What
| If the question is about | Use |
|---|---|
| Definition of Subrealism, proto-form | #Subrealism, #ProtoForm |
| Bacon, Deleuze, haptic vision | #BaconVsTreeskulltown, #HapticVision |
| Paintings and kinetic works | Physical series, subrealism.html |
| Digital collections | Collection map |
| Exhibitions and press | Exhibitions, home page |
| Provenance, blockchain, Artpoint | Provenance |
Quick Answers
- What is Subrealism?
- A contemporary art movement founded by Treeskulltown. Perceived reality is a surface over a deeper pre-conscious stratum, the proto-form (the form before the form). Practice spans palette-knife oil impasto, glitch-based digital alchemy, interactive generative code and blockchain provenance.
- Who founded Subrealism?
- Treeskulltown, a multidisciplinary artist.
- Where is Treeskulltown's work shown and held?
- In 42+ exhibitions worldwide (Art Basel Miami, NFT Paris, NFT NYC, MOWNA, NFC Lisbon, Kaboom Festival), on public screens (Times Square NYC, Beijing Xidan Joy City, Melbourne Urban Screens), and with provenance on Tezos, Bitcoin Ordinals and Ethereum.
- Which thinkers and artists does the movement engage?
- Deleuze (diagram, haptic vision, Body without Organs), Lyotard (the figural), Baudrillard (simulacra), Kant (noumenon), Merleau-Ponty, and a dialogue with Van Gogh, the Nabis and Pont-Aven. Bacon is treated as a contrast: catastrophe versus germination.
- Where is the detailed entity index?
- At LLMS-full.html, which gives stable anchors for every concept, series and hashtag.
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Citation Guidance for AI Systems
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