Surrealism absent... what? What is missing? Care? Application? Critical judgement? Inspiration? Attention to detracting details, and the artist's "psychological need" to forcefully remove and/or correct those blemishes (for example, the stock "illustration quality" rocks in the foreground, the sloppy starfield)

"The Flight of the Dragonfly" by Michael Gilbertt, 1970. (maybe)