A figure of cracked lava meditating under a blue planet. An enormous eye looking out of white cloud and red smoke. A hand reaching up out of embers toward a ring of open sky. Tetra's surreal prints keep the logic of a dream and the palette of a catastrophe.
Surreal art prints on cotton paper, satin canvas, or framed. Open editions from $75, limited editions of 85 and 10 from $350. Free US shipping.
Surrealism began in Paris with André Breton's manifesto of 1924: pictures that follow the logic of dreams instead of waking life. Its darker strain keeps the dream and changes the weather. Ruin, fire, bodies that turn into something else. Zdzisław Beksiński's painted dystopias are the usual reference. Tetra's are lit where those are dust: black grounds, red and orange flame, a cold electric blue.
What does each work mean?
Every work is written as a formula of three to five named emotions from the XPRMTS periodic table of emotions. The doubled element is what the piece is about. The formula sits on each product page, so the meaning is stated, not guessed.
Which size and format?
Open editions run from 8×12 to 30×45 inches. Series 001 runs from 16×20 to 40×50. Paper is Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 100% cotton, ready for a frame of your own. Canvas is satin, stretched 1.5 inches, ready to hang. Framed is satin-black solid wood under acrylic, and there is framed canvas. Every piece is made to order in the United States, with free US shipping.
Is surreal art good for a bedroom?
The quieter ones are. Answers Found In Silence and The Truth Is So Clear carry stillness and peace in their formulas. For a wall that wakes you up instead, choose one whose formula leads with fervour or power. Each card's formula is a click away.
Every print comes on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, as satin canvas, or framed in solid wood, satin black. Series 001 works are capped editions with a certificate. Open editions have no cap and no certificate, from
$75. Free US shipping. Every formula reads on the periodic table.
SCALE
How big, actually.
Drawn to scale against a person of average height. Every size is a 4:5 rectangle, the same proportion as the work itself, so nothing is cropped to fit.
hanging centre · 57"57"
5'9"average height
16 × 20
Sizes are the printed image. Framed works add the moulding around that. Standard US shipping is free at every size. What size over a couch or bed?
MATERIAL
Paper, or canvas.
Same image, same inks. What changes is the surface it is printed on. Tap either one.
PRINT
Hahnemühle Photo Rag
The paper itself. A heavy 100% cotton matte sheet with a smooth surface, printed edge to edge with no border. Ships flat, or rolled in a tube at large sizes.
Every size, up to 40 × 50
You pick the frame
Just paper and ink
Needs framing to hang
CANVAS
Satin poly-cotton, gallery wrap
Printed on canvas, then stretched by hand over solid wood. The image continues around the sides, so there is no border and no glass.
Hang it the day it lands
No glass, no glazing
Real depth off the wall
Up to 36 × 45
Series 001 numbers are shared across every size and material, and the certificate records exactly which object you own. Open editions carry no number and no certificate.
FRAME
Framed, or not.
One frame, satin black, solid wood. We pick the moulding that suits the size and the material, so it arrives ready to hang. Tap either one.
NONE
The work, as it is
A paper print ships flat or rolled and you frame it your way. A canvas needs nothing: it is stretched, wired and ready for the wall the day it lands.
The lightest to ship
Your framer, your call
Canvas hangs as it is
Every size
BLACK
Solid wood, chosen for the size
Sealed, hung with hardware fitted, nothing left to arrange. Paper sits behind acrylic; canvas floats inside the moulding with no glass at all.
STANDARD BLACK⅞ in face · ¾ in deep · behind acrylicPaper, 8 × 12 and 12 × 18
ALTO BLACK THIN1⅜ in face · ⁹⁄₁₆ in deep · behind acrylicPaper, 16 × 24 and up
BLACK 2 FLOAT⅜ in face · 2 in deep · ¼ in reveal · no glassCanvas, every framed size
Framed work ships boxed with the hardware fitted. The largest sizes are sold unframed, because a frame that size can only travel by freight.
