surrealist
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Masson, like many of the most persuasive artists in “Dreamworld”—Picasso, Arp, André Kertész, Calder, Dorothea Tanning—engaged for a time with innovative Surrealist ideas but, evolving, didn’t forever worship at the altar of the absurd.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
It could be argued that the Surrealist impulse—primitive, mysterious, downright weird—isn’t modern but as old as art itself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
A painting by Spanish Surrealist artist Salvador Dali found in a house clearance is expected to fetch up to £30,000 - after being bought for just £150.
From BBC • Jul. 29, 2025
Another object with an impeccable Surrealist pedigree is over at Jacques Lacoste, which is showing French design from the 1930s.
From New York Times • May 9, 2024
The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by Rene Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then beneath it wrote in cursive Ceci n’est pas une pipe.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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