35 Times People Spotted “Accidental Surrealism” IRL And It Blew Their Minds

There’s accidental art…then there’s accidental surrealism. Artists from the surrealism movement seek the odd beauty and magic in the unknown without regard for anything ordinary.

That art is created intentionally but sometimes it occurs naturally in the wild and there’s a special Reddit group dedicated to pretty solid examples — called “Accidental Surrealism” naturally.

Naturally occurring, trippy instances of surrealism caught on camera should be their own genre.

35 Trippy Examples Of “Accidental Surrealism” From This Month

 

1. “Christ The Protector” Is Being Built In Southern Brazil Will Be Much Taller (43m) Than “Christ The Redeemer”

2. “This being is the authority of S P O R T S”

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5. “The Sky’s the Limit”

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6. “Bad Luck Buffalo”

7. “Tried to take a panoramic pic of the Eiffel Tower”

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10. Frozen Ramen

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13. “Accidental Skyline”

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14. “My scarf accidentally matched my hotel carpet.”

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15. “Brick wall worn down by the sea”

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16. “The Persistence of Garbage”

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17. “Oil on the ground.”

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18. “Childhood and Adulthood”

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19. “Camels In the Desert”

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20. “I took a picture of well trimmed trees and bushes in fog, creating a Mondrian-like composition”

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21. “This sculpture of kids swinging from a no longer existing tree”

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22. “Shadow”

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23. “A mosaic in Turkey being excavated that’s been rippled by earthquakes”

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24. “Ladders”

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25. “ennui yields to art”

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26. “Tried to take a panoramic picture of the Eiffel Tower today, it went surprisingly well!”

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27. “A melted timer.”

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28. “This frozen in place spoon”

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29. “Dali’s Disco”

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30. “Picture of building as reflected in broken mirror on pavement”

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31. “Swimming pool untouched by dirty flood water”

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32. “Shed overturned by a tornado”

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33. “These floorboards at my AirBnB”

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34. “Sky fox, snoozing”

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35. “The clear ice in my Absinthe looks like a chunk was cut out of it.”

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h/t: AccidentalSurrealism

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Nate Armbruster

When he's not doomscrolling Twitter or writing for Pleated-Jeans, Nate Armbruster writes jokes—and then tells them on stage as a stand-up comedian, where he can watch audiences (hopefully) laugh in real-time.