surrealist
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On Friday, Sotheby’s offerings will include Rothko’s surrealist work on paper from 1946, “The Journey.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
A talented artist, the young Morris had spent his national service lecturing soldiers in fine arts and had exhibited surrealist paintings alongside Joan Miró.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Anyone dialed into online culture in the early aughts encountered the surrealist comedy series born from Flash animation and two brothers spoofing kids books.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
In the first episode, Nataliia pays homage to her homeland with a beautiful Ukraine landscape cake that looks more like a surrealist painting than a pastry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
It was the surrealist touch that got me.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Their touchstones are silent auteurs and surrealists: F.W.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
Under the spell of ancient tombstones and tablets, but also the “automatic writing” of the surrealists, Twombly took up the idea that the written word, legible or otherwise, could be thought of pictorially.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2023
In the 1940s and 50s, she and Rivera hosted Mexican artists, European surrealists, movie stars, wealthy art collectors, expats and political refugees.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
He cites the works of surrealists like Max Ernst and Salvador Dali with his lobster telephone as early inspirations.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2021
European surrealists came across this colorful new art in the first years of the twentieth century.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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