Surrealist
noun
A person who follows or practices surrealism.
The surrealist used unusual, dreamlike images in his artwork.
Often appears as...
- famous surrealist
- surrealist artist
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Artistic,Academic
adjective
Related to or characteristic of surrealism, an art and literature movement that seeks to express the subconscious and non-rational aspects of humanity by using fantastical, dreamlike imagery.
The film had a surrealist style, blending dreams and reality in an illogical way.
Often appears as...
- surrealist art
- surrealist imagery
Usage tips
Artistic,Academic
noun
A person who follows or practices surrealism.
The surrealist used unusual, dreamlike images in his artwork.
Often appears as...
- famous surrealist
- surrealist artist
Usage tips
Artistic,Academic
adjective
Related to or characteristic of surrealism, an art and literature movement that seeks to express the subconscious and non-rational aspects of humanity by using fantastical, dreamlike imagery.
The film had a surrealist style, blending dreams and reality in an illogical way.
Often appears as...
- surrealist art
- surrealist imagery
Usage tips
Artistic,Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Art Movement
Surrealist as a noun usually relates to the cultural movement that started in the 1920s.
He's a well-known surrealist who explores dream themes in his sculptures.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Art
A surrealist doesn't only work in visual art; they might write or make films too.
As a surrealist, her poetry often features bizarre, illogical scenes.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Reality
Surrealists aim to unlock the mind to go beyond realistic depiction in artwork.
The surrealist painted a clock melting over a tree, challenging our perception of time.
Pro Tip 1/3Art Movement
Surrealist as a noun usually relates to the cultural movement that started in the 1920s.
He's a well-known surrealist who explores dream themes in his sculptures.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Art
A surrealist doesn't only work in visual art; they might write or make films too.
As a surrealist, her poetry often features bizarre, illogical scenes.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Reality
Surrealists aim to unlock the mind to go beyond realistic depiction in artwork.
The surrealist painted a clock melting over a tree, challenging our perception of time.
Pro Tip 1/3Art Movement
Surrealist as a noun usually relates to the cultural movement that started in the 1920s.
He's a well-known surrealist who explores dream themes in his sculptures.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Art
A surrealist doesn't only work in visual art; they might write or make films too.
As a surrealist, her poetry often features bizarre, illogical scenes.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Reality
Surrealists aim to unlock the mind to go beyond realistic depiction in artwork.
The surrealist painted a clock melting over a tree, challenging our perception of time.
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The poet who painted...
Guillaume Apollinaire was a well-known fixture. As an art critic, Apollinaire explained the cubist and surrealist movements to the world, and rose to the defense of many young artists in the face of what was often a xenophobic and narrow-minded public.
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Titus Kaphar: Can beauty...
The series of paintings takes place in a supersaturated, maybe surrealist world, not that far from the one we live in. But in this world,
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The poet who painted...
Guillaume Apollinaire was a well-known fixture. As an art critic, Apollinaire explained the cubist and surrealist movements to the world, and rose to the defense of many young artists in the face of what was often a xenophobic and narrow-minded public.
Video examples
Titus Kaphar: Can beauty...
The series of paintings takes place in a supersaturated, maybe surrealist world, not that far from the one we live in. But in this world,
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Henry Rollins
American Musician
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.
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Marcel Duchamp
French Artist
The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the dadaists, but unfortunately, these latter were nihilists and didn't produce enough to prove their point, which, by the way, they didn't have to prove - according to their theory.
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Henry Moore
English Sculptor
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.
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Manny Farber
American Artist
The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
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Kenneth Koch
American Poet
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
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Rene Magritte
Belgian Artist
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
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Frida Kahlo
Mexican Artist
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
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J. G. Ballard
British Author
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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Billy Connolly
Scottish Comedian
I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
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David Morrissey
English Actor
My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.
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Henry Rollins
American Musician
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.
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Marcel Duchamp
French Artist
The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the dadaists, but unfortunately, these latter were nihilists and didn't produce enough to prove their point, which, by the way, they didn't have to prove - according to their theory.
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Henry Moore
English Sculptor
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.
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Manny Farber
American Artist
The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
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Kenneth Koch
American Poet
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
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Rene Magritte
Belgian Artist
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
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Frida Kahlo
Mexican Artist
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
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J. G. Ballard
British Author
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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Billy Connolly
Scottish Comedian
I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
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David Morrissey
English Actor
My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.
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