Apollinaire

American  

[uh-pol-uh-nair, a-paw-lee-ner] / əˌpɒl əˈnɛər, a pɔ liˈnɛr /

noun

1. Guillaume Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, 1880–1918, French poet and art critic, born in Italy.

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Apollinaire British  

/ apɔlinɛr /

noun

1. Guillaume (ɡijom), real name Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki. 1880–1918, French poet, novelist, and dramatist, regarded as a precursor of surrealism; author of Alcoöls (1913) and Calligrammes (1918)

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Example Sentences

“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

Suspicion initially fell on poet Guillaume Apollinaire and artist Pablo Picasso.

From Barron's

So Picasso and Apollinaire decided to throw the statues into the Seine.

From Literature

He had previously used several Iberian stone statuettes stolen from the Louvre by a friend of a friend, the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire, as a model for his 1907 painting “Demoiselles d’Avignon.”

From New York Times

The term itself was coined in 1917 by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire.

From Washington Post