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How to pronounce surrealist in English?

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Type Words
Type of artist, creative person
Derivation surrealism

Examples of surrealist

surrealist
That's the kind of surrealist move that's been in play at least since the 1920s.
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Surrealist painter and sculptor Enrico Donati added it to his collection in 1945.
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The work of Renee Magritte, the somewhat serene surrealist artist, comes to mind.
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Even for the surrealist avant-garde circus she belongs to, Petra is out of place.
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So, in typical surrealist style, we're paying on the double as taxpayers here.
From the guardian.co.uk
Keaton was too busy with sight gags to realize that he was a major surrealist.
From the time.com
How fitting, to reach Dali's beloved home town, staggering like a surrealist.
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She had fallen in love with the 46-year-old, married, surrealist painter Max Ernst.
From the guardian.co.uk
Published in 1920, the authors used a surrealist automatic writing technique.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • 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"
  • 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 ...
  • (Surrealists) 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.
  • (surrealistic) Describing something that is surreal
  • (surrealism) 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
  • (SURREALISM) Defined by Breton as "the process of thought free from the exercise of reason and every aesthetic and moral preoccupation". This 1924 hallucinatory art movement was a development of the irrational dictates of the subconscious mind. Renowned exponents include Dali and Magritte.
  • (Surrealism) A movement in literature and the visual arts that developed in the mid1920s and remained strong until the mid1940s, growing out of Dada and automatism. ...
  • (Surrealism) European literary and artistic movement that uses illogical, dreamlike images and events to suggest the unconscious.