surrealist

[suh-ree-uh-list]

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) an artist or writer using the style, conventions, themes of surrealism.

adjective

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or conforming to surrealism.

Example Sentences

His surrealist reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian children’s novel, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” distorts the nonsense and whimsy: melting clocks and anxious White Rabbits, sinister playing cards and caterpillars on mushrooms.

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From her repetitious linework to her paintings of blue skies with surrealist feathers and self-portraits of her fragmented nude body, Hurtado’s art is marked by her sense of experimentation and constant changes in style.

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‘Government Cheese’ is a surrealist comedy on Apple TV+ about a Black family living in the San Fernando Valley that’s based on co-creator Paul Hunter’s own family.

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Oyelowo, also an executive producer, has a ready description of the tone: “it’s a parabolic surrealist absurdist family comedy,” he said in an interview.

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Accent and idiom are firmly in command as she transitions from Southern Gothic to surrealist horror, never losing sight of a character who’s as fragile as she is formidable.

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