Benjamin F. Berlin Prints – Surreal Faces & Constructed Figures
Benjamin F. Berlin prints combine recognisable faces and bodies with constructed or mechanical-looking forms. Curved contours can run through a figure and its background, making the surrounding space part of the same design. Explore these images alongside abstract art, geometric prints and figurative painting, following the changing boundary between body and structure.
A face assembled from layered forms
Surreal Abstract Self Portrait sets the head against a dense blue field, with pale vertical and curved elements running through the features. Smaller mechanical-looking parts cluster below. The profile remains partly recognisable, but its surface and surrounding space appear joined by the same interlocking lines and shaded divisions.
Dark bodies within crossing blue planes
Surreal Abstract Figures gathers elongated shapes near the centre of a dense arrangement of curves, bars and angled colour. Small pale and warm accents distinguish parts of the forms. The surrounding geometry repeatedly crosses the bodies, preventing a simple separation between a figure and an empty background.
A patterned figure within architectural blocks
Surreal Abstract places the large head and striped limbs among brick-like walls and bright yellow and green planes. Smaller upright forms establish a different scale at the edges. The recognisable building fragments give the imagined body a setting while leaving the relationship between its parts deliberately unfamiliar.
Related artists and collections
Compare constructed bodies in Fernand Léger, ambiguous space in Walter Kurt Wiemken and layered geometry in Karol Hiller. Further abstract prints follows the interlocking surfaces, while geometric art extends the repeated curves, bars and architectural divisions.
Read more in our František Kupka guide to abstract art.