Apollinaire
Americannoun
noun
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“Dreamworld” opens, in the section “Waking Dream,” with harbingers of Surrealism—fusing classicism and modernism, reality and fantasy—by Giorgio de Chirico, whom Apollinaire described as a painter of things beyond the observable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
Suspicion initially fell on poet Guillaume Apollinaire and artist Pablo Picasso.
From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025
"We demand justice and reparations for the family," said Narcisse's older brother, Apollinaire Rititingar.
From Reuters • Oct. 28, 2022
The term itself was coined in 1917 by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2022
They were a perfect pair: Picasso couldn’t talk, but he could paint like no one else; Apollinaire couldn’t paint, but he could talk like no one else.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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