surrealist
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Certainly it’s fascinating to see Wilder, never a strictly naturalistic playwright, continuing in his latter years to embrace the surrealist style that marked much of his dramatic oeuvre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
A talented artist, the young Morris had spent his national service lecturing soldiers in fine arts and had exhibited surrealist paintings alongside Joan Miró.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
In the first episode, Nataliia pays homage to her homeland with a beautiful Ukraine landscape cake that looks more like a surrealist painting than a pastry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 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
He cites the works of surrealists like Max Ernst and Salvador Dali with his lobster telephone as early inspirations.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2021
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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