Surrealist Oil Paintings

The Far Shore of Sleep

Every painting begins where the waking world ends. Works by Attila Kovács.

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A tall, stained‑glass‑like composition forms a circular compass of colored segments — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
The last wink
2026 · Oil on canvas
A split world of greys and color: on the left, a smoky monochrome field holds a glowing amber sphere and shadowed — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
The final farewell
2026 · Oil on canvas
A warm, honey‑gold sky surrounds a dark, hulking, creature‑like mass crowned by an ear‑shaped spiral — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
The victims of pleasures
2026 · Oil on canvas stretched on cardboard
A surreal abstract painting filled with glowing organic shapes, bells, masks — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
My devil’s jester
2025 · Oil on canvas stretched on cardboard
A surreal, abstract painting populated by organic, virus-like and cell-like forms in glowing reds, oranges, teals — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Orgy of viruses
2025 · Oil on canvas stretched on cardboard
A surreal abstract painting dominated by glowing yellow, orange — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Birth
2025 · Oil on canvas stretched on cardboard
A surreal geometric painting with a central eye-like symbol surrounded by radiating shard-like forms in blue, red — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
...then everything comes to light II
2025 · Oil on canvas stretched on cardboard
A single stem rises from a split horizon, opening into a surreal bloom whose petals are hybrid instruments — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
A flower stem (shadow side)
2025 · Oil on canvas stretched on cardboard
A turbulent swirl of smudged pigments collides across the surface—reds, blues — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
A color mixer (driving into madness)
2025 · Oil on canvas stretched on cardboard
A golden, elongated figure is strapped to a spinning metallic wheel — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Spin with me
2024 · Oil on fiberboard
Numbered hopscotch cubes stack into a staircase across a tiled field, marbles and symbols scattered around — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
And that's that!
2024 · Oil on fiberboard
A fleshy mushroom cloud hangs like a body, tethered to the ground by sinew while red drops fall — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Bomb (reconsidered)
2024 · Oil on fiberboard
Two serpentine bands twisting like a DNA double helix, with varied elements bridging the strands — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Revelations of our characters
2023 · Oil on fiberboard
A pale spiral mass crowns and presses down on a green face — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
I cry
2023 · Oil on fiberboard
A faceted self‑portrait without a face: twin eyes sit like bearings amid prisms, grids, and stacked planes — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
(a numb) Self-portrait
2023 · Oil on fiberboard
Converging chevron bands form an hourglass that pinches the scene, with churning clouds above and a molten — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Time presses
2023 · Oil on canvas stretched on cardboard
Two monumental eyes meet iris-to-iris, their sockets grown from interlaced organic forms—nerves, valves — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Lovemaking with eye contact
2022 · Oil on canvas
A hyper-detailed blue eye fills the canvas, its iris radiating light as lashes sweep across the lid — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
I see everything
2022 · Oil on fiberboard
A nude figure holds a cruciform pose as her legs twist like a serpent — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Prostitute as a gift
2022 · Oil on fiberboard
A towering composite head emerges with everything radiating from the bridge between the eyes: stitched masks — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Catharsis II
2019 · Oil on fiberboard
A face coalescing from ribbons of flame and smoke, ember‑red and ochre currents carving fissured features — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Catharsis
1992 · Oil on fiberboard
Against a mosaic of map‑like panes, a gilded cruciform figure with a sunburst halo stands on a plinth — surrealist oil painting by Attila Kovács
Vile innocence
1990 · Oil on fiberboard
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Attila Kovács

I am a Hungarian surrealist painter whose work blurs the boundaries between imagination and reality — dreamlike landscapes and symbolic forms that reveal deep emotional and psychological layers.

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