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/səɹˈiəlɪzəm/
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[ US /sɝˈiəˌɫɪzəm, sɝˈiɫɪzəm/ ]
[ US /sɝˈiəˌɫɪzəm, sɝˈiɫɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
How To Use surrealism In A Sentence
- Are photography and surrealism such an ‘unnatural coupling,’ as one observer has recently suggested?
- But the videos of robotic forms, Imprecise Bodies, that ooze into other forms, as if Salvador Dalí were haunting them, make an argument that there's life left in surrealism, thanks to the imagination that Netzhammer brings to it. GreenCine Daily: Miami Dispatch.
- The old masters of surrealism aren't the only ones popular with today's art collectors, though.
- By bolstering Clampett's vision with a kind of premade Surrealism imported from Dali, Freleng dilutes the ingenuity and visual brilliance of the original short, reducing it to a clever referential game rather than a truly original work invented out of whole cloth. 12/17: Porky In Wackyland; Dough For the Do-Do; Quai des orfèvres
- With surrealism this involves, presumably, finding a way to integrate a surrealisticpresentation with one's prior conceptions of the way things are: surrealism becomes an alternative vision of the world, one that breaks from the "normal" perceptions most of us share only to portray that world just as truthfully if more obliquely. Experimental Fiction
- Paolozzi, born in 1924, had even gone to Paris in the 1940s to study Dada and Surrealism at the source.
- What Jackson does so brilliantly is to capture the surrealism of family life with its impossible combination of adults forced to explain and impose standards of behaviour that collapse into ludicrousness under the stern eye and wild logic of your average four-year-old. Seeing The Funny Side « Tales from the Reading Room
- Official Surrealism includes acres upon acres of bad painting, yet its ideas could not be more important to the century.
- The reader would never guess from this textbook that di Chirico exerted a huge influence on Dada, Surrealism and popular culture.
- Here are jumbled together manifestos from the Bauhaus, Surrealism, Dada, the Suprematists and the Futurists.