Surrealism
noun
An art and literature style where unusual or dreamlike things are shown or described.
The Museum of Modern Art held a large exhibition of surrealism.
Often appears as...
- surrealism art
- surrealism movement
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Academic
noun
A situation or experience that is very strange or unreal.
The whole experience was completely surrealism and it felt like a dream.
Often appears as...
- experience surrealism
- surrealism moment
noun
An art and literature style where unusual or dreamlike things are shown or described.
The Museum of Modern Art held a large exhibition of surrealism.
Often appears as...
- surrealism art
- surrealism movement
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A situation or experience that is very strange or unreal.
The whole experience was completely surrealism and it felt like a dream.
Often appears as...
- experience surrealism
- surrealism moment
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Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Origin
Surrealism began as an artistic movement, so it's often related to creativity and the unexpected.
Her painting clearly takes inspiration from surrealism, blending reality with fantasy.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Combinations
Surrealism involves combining things that don't usually go together to provoke thought.
The sculpture was pure surrealism, with clocks melting over tree branches.
Pro Tip 3/3Dream Influence
Surrealism draws heavily on dreams, involving illogical scenes with a dreamlike atmosphere.
His art is full of surrealism, like walking through someone's dream.
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Origin
Surrealism began as an artistic movement, so it's often related to creativity and the unexpected.
Her painting clearly takes inspiration from surrealism, blending reality with fantasy.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Combinations
Surrealism involves combining things that don't usually go together to provoke thought.
The sculpture was pure surrealism, with clocks melting over tree branches.
Pro Tip 3/3Dream Influence
Surrealism draws heavily on dreams, involving illogical scenes with a dreamlike atmosphere.
His art is full of surrealism, like walking through someone's dream.
Pro Tip 1/3Artistic Origin
Surrealism began as an artistic movement, so it's often related to creativity and the unexpected.
Her painting clearly takes inspiration from surrealism, blending reality with fantasy.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Combinations
Surrealism involves combining things that don't usually go together to provoke thought.
The sculpture was pure surrealism, with clocks melting over tree branches.
Pro Tip 3/3Dream Influence
Surrealism draws heavily on dreams, involving illogical scenes with a dreamlike atmosphere.
His art is full of surrealism, like walking through someone's dream.
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Milton Glaser: How great...
I'm also convinced that, in an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. The phrase 'Art is whatever' expresses the current inclusiveness that surrounds art-making -- a sort of 'it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it' notion.
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The poet who painted...
On the other, the forms of artistic expression made possible through surrealism, cubism, and new inventions, like the cinema and the phonograph. Within that divide, through the creation of his most important contribution to poetry, the calligram,
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Milton Glaser: How great...
I'm also convinced that, in an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. The phrase 'Art is whatever' expresses the current inclusiveness that surrounds art-making -- a sort of 'it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it' notion.
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The poet who painted...
On the other, the forms of artistic expression made possible through surrealism, cubism, and new inventions, like the cinema and the phonograph. Within that divide, through the creation of his most important contribution to poetry, the calligram,
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Weyes Blood
American Musician
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.
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Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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Susan Sontag
American Author
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
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John Lennon
English Musician
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
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Jessica Stroup
American Actress
I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.
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Brad Holland
American Artist
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
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Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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Octavio Paz
Mexican Poet
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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Vincente Minnelli
American Director
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
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Mark Mothersbaugh
American Musician
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
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Weyes Blood
American Musician
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.
Quote examples
Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Quote examples
Susan Sontag
American Author
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
Quote examples
John Lennon
English Musician
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
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Jessica Stroup
American Actress
I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.
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Brad Holland
American Artist
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
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Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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Octavio Paz
Mexican Poet
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
Quote examples
Vincente Minnelli
American Director
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
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Mark Mothersbaugh
American Musician
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
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