A Transcendental part of human nature always looks for its own
Eternal source and inevitably has doubt regarding visible reality. The
conditionally perceived illusionary surroundings require examination
and overcoming... Surrealism, through it's inner absurdity and
paradoxes, destroys trust in reality. It is an aesthetic game of the
human imagination with a nostalgia for everlasting spiritual liberty.
But Visionary Art has a different field of the play, the Contemplative
artist is a participant of the action himself, he doesn't play with the
help of mind by the symbols and their mechanical constructions anymore,
but operates with energies, forces which bear the images, intuitive way
... A Visionary artist can not be Atheist, he always serves a certain
Power and represents it by own creative activity and life.

Paintings by Oleg Korolev

See also beinArt Interview with Oleg Korolev.