a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
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surrealism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | art movement, artistic movement |
| Derivation | surrealist, surrealistic |
Examples of surrealism
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Like many artists who discover art at an early age, she fell hard for surrealism.
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Don't have time now to read the more substantive comments about surrealism etc.
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This made Bourgeois's idiosyncratic kind of late surrealism well worth examining.
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Think you've seen everything by Man Ray, the master of photographic surrealism?
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The gallery is also one of the best places to study Dada and surrealism anywhere.
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Finding an understandable definition for surrealism is harder than you'd think.
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I am obliged to mention once again that surrealism is not an artistic movement.
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Dadaism and surrealism were historically linked yet also opposed to each other.
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Unsurprisingly, he cites the Dada movement and surrealism among his influences.
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- A 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
- (surrealist) an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism
- (surrealistic) phantasmagoric: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"
- Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
- Surrealist music is music which uses unexpected juxtapositions and other surrealist techniques. Discussing Theodor Adorno, Max Paddison (1993, 90) defines surrealist music as that which "juxtaposes its historically devalued fragments in a montage-like manner which enables them to yield up new ...
- An artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious
- (surrealistic) Describing something that is surreal
- A twist on Realism. It explores the subconscious mind, with subject matters concentrating on dream-images and often aims to distort the ordinary and what we call reality.
- Beginning in 1920s, the Surrealist art movement embraced the element of surprise and unexpected compositions. Working from a Manifesto, the Surrealist artists explored the philosophy of revolution.
