surrealist
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surrealists
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Playwright Aleshea Harris makes a bold cinematic debut with the screen adaptation of her Obie Award-winning play “Is God Is,” a harrowing and beautiful slice of surrealist neo-noir.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
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
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
It was the surrealist touch that got me.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
Finally, the trap surrealists and the art-soul eccentrics have come to a territory-sharing treaty.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 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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