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
It depicts his partner and muse, the French surrealist artist Dora Maar.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 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
Because you work so hard to be on that stage and then, as Roger Waters so aptly describes in “The Wall,” you find yourself having a surrealist experience on that same stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 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
But what motivated him to paint forgeries of fellow surrealists and of Titian, and to dabble in counterfeiting?
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
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
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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