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
It depicts his partner and muse, the French surrealist artist Dora Maar.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 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
In the 1940s and 50s, she and Rivera hosted Mexican artists, European surrealists, movie stars, wealthy art collectors, expats and political refugees.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
Geometric and organic patterns collide, as if building to a bigger form and recalling the automatic drawings of the surrealists.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2022
He cites the works of surrealists like Max Ernst and Salvador Dali with his lobster telephone as early inspirations.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2021
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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