“The Day After Yesterday,” created by Desmond Morris in 1973, is a surrealist figurative artwork. This piece belongs to the Surrealism art movement and vividly represents imaginative and fantastical elements intertwined with figurative forms.
The artwork features a group of abstract, anthropomorphic shapes in a dreamlike landscape. Various forms are depicted in an array of colors—green, blue, red, and yellow—with each entity possessing distinctive characteristics such as appendages, protrusions, and seemingly lively attributes. The background of the piece displays a neutral gradient, subtly transitioning from light to darker hues, which serves to accentuate the vibrant foreground forms. The entities appear to interact with each other and the space around them, creating an enigmatic and whimsical scene that is characteristic of surrealist expression.
