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
He was also a surrealist painter and exhibited his work around the world alongside artists such as Joan Miró.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Throughout the ’80s and into the early ’90s, Zanzabar was host to queer gatherings and parties, as well as surrealist photoshoots with exquisite paper-cut set designs that Arnold entirely made from hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 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
The scene as described was a macabre picture — something that might have been created by a surrealist brush.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Their touchstones are silent auteurs and surrealists: F.W.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
He cites the works of surrealists like Max Ernst and Salvador Dali with his lobster telephone as early inspirations.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2021
He signals his debt to the surrealists by casting Jean-Claude Carrière, a longtime screenwriter for Luis Buñuel, as an older husband who gives James advice.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2020
By 1935, Maar was entrenched in the group of Parisian artists calling themselves surrealists.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2019
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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