Max Magnus Norman
Illustration — The painting Angels on Line by Max Magnus Norman • Illustration — The sculpture Death by Raygun by Max Magnus Norman • Illustration — Street art The sea cat, in Stockholms ström Cal Henrik Max Magnus Norman (born July 30, 1973) is a Swedish artist, painter, and sculptor. He paints visions and dreamlike images as accurately as possible, which results in paintings with a photorealistic quality. His works are intended to spread virally among social networks on the Internet; his art and stunts often deal with everyday events spiced up with a touch of the absurd.
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Illustration — The painting Angels on Line by Max Magnus Norman • Illustration — The sculpture Death by Raygun by Max Magnus Norman • Illustration — Street art The sea cat, in Stockholms ström Cal Henrik Max Magnus Norman (born July 30, 1973) is a Swedish artist, painter, and sculptor. He paints visions and dreamlike images as accurately as possible, which results in paintings with a photorealistic quality. His works are intended to spread virally among social networks on the Internet; his art and stunts often deal with everyday events spiced up with a touch of the absurd.
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A few examples of such works created for the Internet are the illustrated essay "The LED (minor) Artcrime Tutorial " and the Moose graffiti stunt, where the artist sneaks up on a wild moose and paints graffiti on it. His sculpture and plastic arts projects have received some exposure in Sweden, such as his art project that consisted of a woodpecker placed on a traffic camera on the E4 near Stockvik. In another of Max Magnus Norman's art projects the artist created an unknown (but huge) number of plastic monkeys, about 1 metres in length. One night in early May 2009 he put up these monkeys in different settings all over the small city Sundsvall. One monkey was riding a crocodile in the middle of the central stream Selångersån and one was placed upon a traffic light making it look like the monkey controlled the traffic, and some monkeys were even placed under water. A few of these monkeys still remain, amongst others one flying 20 metres up in the air, holding a beer can above the intersection Köpmangatan-Thulegatan. In 2008, a statue of his, "Kuken ska ha sitt,", which includes a 30 cm. Long penis, caused some local outcry noticed by the Swedish press: the "obscene sculpture" drew notice and commentary from the two largest Swedish papers, Aftonbladet and Expressen.
In 2014 Max Magnus Norman published the book Magnum Opus Part 1 (2014) where he claims he unsought managed to create the philosopher's stone. The book, written in Swedish, is built up as a manual on how to reach spiritual and physical enlightenment, though it only covers a few physical and meditative exercises, layered with autobiographical anecdotes.

Five angels sit on a golden quay. Fish swim in the water.
Max Magnus Norman, Swedish artist · Own work, CHMMN Max Magnus Norman, 2010-03-19

Katten i Stockholms Ström av Max Magnus Norman
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