How To Use Surreal In A Sentence
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Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance.
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The calm was eerie; the vista serene and surreal.
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His range of effects is unusually eloquent; there is something of the monoprint to them, as well as elements of the Surrealist techniques of decalcomania and frottage.
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June 17th, 2006 at 12:05 am just popping in on way to bed … my first french textbook was written by Eugene Ionesco … provided me with a most shall we say surreal vocabulary complete with the wonderful word “bathyscape” … nowadays my vocabulary consists of de rien and alors! with an occasional mon petit chouchou thrown in.
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Man Ray was experimenting with new techniques and compositions and many of the Surrealists used photography to signal that their art belonged firmly in the modern, mechanical world.
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Today, spruced-up Times Square is in the midst of a surprising, almost surreal transformation into a family-oriented entertainment center.
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Are photography and surrealism such an ‘unnatural coupling,’ as one observer has recently suggested?
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It was surreal and very funny - all I needed was a white cat to stroke menacingly and I was set.
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But the videos of robotic forms, Imprecise Bodies, that ooze into other forms, as if Salvador Dalí were haunting them, make an argument that there's life left in surrealism, thanks to the imagination that Netzhammer brings to it.
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The show opened as a surreal oasis of calm and culture in a tense and jittery city.
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With classical recitals on the central patio, well-stocked CD cabinets (all 14 rooms have hi-fis) and lots of surrealist art, it has bags more character than most cheapies.
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He made the details of the setting so vividly real that they became almost surreal.
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The old masters of surrealism aren't the only ones popular with today's art collectors, though.
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The film was launched with some inspired, and surreal, promotional stunts.
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After days of stories of poverty - and seeing a fair amount of it - the starched white tablecloths and formal service were surreal.
The Sun
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The camp greeted us with the surreal vision of a linen-covered dining table set on the bank, aglow in candlelight and sparkling crystal.
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However, not all of the surrealists saw psychoanalysis and the liberation of the human mind as an end in itself.
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Surreal is the best way to describe it: Monday is the figure you see on the bookjacket; the book begins with a description of his week, interactions with his friends, and as the seasons change so does Monday.
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- but the timeless survival saga quickly morphs into something very different: A new-fangled reality (or perhaps "surreality") TV show with life and death stakes.
Ben Sherwood: Rock Stars: How the Story of the 33 Chilean Miners Breaks All the Rules
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A surreal, oddly sinister classic, this expertly mixes a cruel and satiric sense of humour with wide-eyed wonder.
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Their sparse details and antic distortions are surreal yet recognizable enough to hit the target, whether it's a powerful politician or a basic human type.
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Dali's shoe hat was undoubtedly the most surrealist idea he ever worked on with Schiaparelli.
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By bolstering Clampett's vision with a kind of premade Surrealism imported from Dali, Freleng dilutes the ingenuity and visual brilliance of the original short, reducing it to a clever referential game rather than a truly original work invented out of whole cloth.
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The hustle and hurry of the job persist in a surreal atmosphere of expectation and denial.
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Composed at speed and in anger, the poem uses the popular ballad form with immense power and sometimes surreal effect.
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While Ranade deploys the resources of the surrealist tradition to achieve his ends, it would be simplistic to gloss his work under that rubric.
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With surrealism this involves, presumably, finding a way to integrate a surrealisticpresentation with one's prior conceptions of the way things are: surrealism becomes an alternative vision of the world, one that breaks from the "normal" perceptions most of us share only to portray that world just as truthfully if more obliquely.
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The Goon Show was a breath of surreal fresh air in dreary post-war Britain.
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Paolozzi, born in 1924, had even gone to Paris in the 1940s to study Dada and Surrealism at the source.
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Surrealistic and abstract human figures instead dominate his oil paintings.
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The calm was eerie; the vista serene and surreal.
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The case was so surrealistic that the novelist Francisco Goldman decided to abandon the magic of fiction and tell this "baroque story of perhaps perverse human passions" in journalistic form in The Art of Political Murder.
John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism
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One guest said: 'It was very surreal.
The Sun
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And because the movie is an adaption of a novel, the script is just remarkably surreal.
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The French call a particular plant fungus the pourriture noble, or “noble rot,” for its influence on the character of certain wines, and the Surrealist poet Leon-Paul Fargue is said to have honored Camembert cheese with the title les pieds de Dieu—the feet of God.
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McGurran is best known for her paintings of women, including a number of surrealist self-portraits.
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It calls for ‘responsibility,’ then shirks it with surreal cravenness.
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One might characterize this as the microcosmically ideal Ballard fantasy, in that it partakes of the surreal — the “Gulliver” being represented as a huge flesh statue based on the work of Praxiteles — as well as of the Freudian: “as if the mutilation of this motionless colossus had released a sudden flood of repressed spite.”
The Catastrophist
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What Jackson does so brilliantly is to capture the surrealism of family life with its impossible combination of adults forced to explain and impose standards of behaviour that collapse into ludicrousness under the stern eye and wild logic of your average four-year-old.
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It's kind of the surreal capper of my whole surreal week.
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A striking, graphic array of evidence in the two books strongly suggests that it was Hodel who, on January 15, 1947, killed actress Elizabeth Short, then surgically cut her in two and transported the halved, nude, exsanguinated corpse — the internal organs kept painstakingly intact — to a vacant lot, where he laid the pieces out as if in imitation of certain Surrealist artworks by Man Ray.
California Dreamgirl
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They possess an intensity that feels almost surreal.
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Here are the final 15 words competitors were asked to spell at the Camera Regional Spelling Bee. vicariously propellable surrealist cosmetician duncical plummet absolution comandante roodebok dachshund egregious archipelago
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Everything seemed so strange, so surreal almost, and yet with a definite air of finality.
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Official Surrealism includes acres upon acres of bad painting, yet its ideas could not be more important to the century.
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And so, what might have been a great interview, had it been pared down and edited, became… well, surreal.
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Surrealist artists in the 1920s sought equivalents to automatic writing, e.g. André Masson's free ink drawings, Max Ernst's frottages, or Joan Miró's field painting.
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In fact, I just went and bought the “Surrealistic Pillow” track (via iTunes) to double-check — yep, that final line is definitely “Feed your head”.
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More than once he keeps matters from becoming too ponderous, especially during a recital of crimes his daughter committed, long and surreal and made deeply funny by his air of consternated frustration.
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When gangsta rap took over in the early '90s, hip-hop's surrealist streak didn't die: it just moved to Britain.
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The surreal depiction of the title ballet is the high point of this film's cinematic ambition, a
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The artist combines elegant lines, wiggles and pointillism to create an atmosphere of surreal spaces surrounding the character.
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In my art, I'm somewhat surrealistic …
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Our 'playpen' consisted of the odd comic strip, the novelisations, some vaguely surreal annuals, those Viewmaster slides, a Gareth Hunt doll and some stories that literally unfolded on chocolate wrappers.
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His work at this time was vaguely Surrealist, with forms resembling primitive hieroglyphs painted in a heavy impasto.
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The reader would never guess from this textbook that di Chirico exerted a huge influence on Dada, Surrealism and popular culture.
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The surreally fresh creel of sketch comedy was one of the freshest and inventive productions of the year - one that deserves to be remounted again, or toured.
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Instead of religious iconology, Cartier-Bresson finds playful expression in the Surrealistic image of a pair of high-heeled shoes shaped like a heart.
Two Sides of the Same Coin
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Here are jumbled together manifestos from the Bauhaus, Surrealism, Dada, the Suprematists and the Futurists.
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The works of dozens of surrealist artists are arranged in the exhibit.
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The surrealistic adventure game that will enthrall games of all ages with its moody atmosphere, you'll encounter engaging narrative and a cast of colorful characters.
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The play was a surreal mix of fact and fantasy.
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He describes his transition from Dada to surrealism as a compromise.
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The writing is her usual blend of charming whimsy, heartbreaking poignancy and sometimes impenetrable surrealism.
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The story ends at a funeral, hovered over by a surreal balloon, from which hangs a fancied female acrobat.
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Just speaking to him was a bit surreal.
The Sun
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His uncanny, unmistakable style crossed Cubist austerity with lush Surrealism.
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It was a seminal collection of work, and he was a forefather to the surrealist movement, as I later found out, and was deeply influential to Marcel Duchamp.
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Pay growth is so subdued as to be almost surreal.
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From surreal puffball skirts to bulbous tops and slashed skirts, his clothes are not for the timid.
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After days of stories of poverty - and seeing a fair amount of it - the starched white tablecloths and formal service were surreal.
The Sun
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Much in the way Negritude was important to the Surrealists, white avant-gardists value the poem for its legitimizing linkage to white avant-gardism.
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One rescues representation in surrealist art by acknowledging the challenge to it.
Some Other Kind of Structure
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This lends a surreal tone to proceedings, especially during Matilda's monologues about herself and family.
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Its contents were by turns phantasmagorical, hyperreal, surreal, and saturnalian.
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Increasingly surreal security measures have seen protesters being warned to keep their voices down and not to use microphones.
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His facial expression never changed from its goofy, surreal state.
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Given the wild and underground nature of the shows they produce, it comes as no surprise that the Old Trout Puppet Workshop has a surreal story of origin, complete with apocalyptic subtexts.
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Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion.
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This seems to mean that the exhibition is indifferent to abstraction, surrealism or art of an introverted, asocial or eccentric nature.
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While the mommies in the crowd just nodded and smiled, the rest of the audience must have felt they were watching pure surrealism.
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The central portion of this book is dedicated to women's contributions to surrealism.
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But I have discovered that Anton Krashny, the reclusive Polish surrealist miniaturist and sometime performance artist, is en route to St Andrews.
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Talking to him is a mildly surreal experience.
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It was surreal to be performing something so very mundane while knowing we were heading straight into hell.
The Sun
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This surrealism is particularly notable in Listen to Britain, a cinema-poem about the sounds of wartime London which reaches out of itself to become a stirring portrait of its people.
GreenCine Daily: Weekend viewing in San Francisco.
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The crazy collage of styles is here but, overall, the feel is less zany and surreal.
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I am indebted to three of these crisis clubs for giving me an excellent, if slightly surreal, grounding in football management.
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The effect is like a surrealist making a palimpsest out of a mannerist piece of art.
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Like a surrealistic melting stone, the sculpture blows up, exaggerates, and even overthrows the communicative relationship of the nature and its subjective.
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Geometric abstraction, thirties activism, and Surrealism had their day in American art, but not at the Intimate Gallery or An American Place.
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Many slather gray mud over their naked skin, giving themselves a wan, ghoulish cast, and they saunter through a surreal panorama punctuated by eccentric installations.
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Celia ... with love, George ") in FO 1110/189 is a typewritten communication from the British embassy in Moscow:" Dear Department, "it begins, and is signed, surreally," yours ever, Chancery.
Orwell's List
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The plots often had wild, surrealistic turns in them.
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He couldn't even begin to explain it to himself; the view was too vivid to be real, like some forest rendition by a surrealistic painter, a primordial viewpoint of a world undulled by reality and human pollution.
The Woods Out Back
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Elements of surrealism and cubism, influences of the European avant-garde art movements of high modernism are all in evidence in this striking poem.
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Of course, with all of my lessons, this too became something more than a brief foray into Surrealism.
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Mothering takes on new meaning, and the mundane becomes surreal Kate's goldfish, according to the oceanologist Sara consults in a desperate effort to save the pet's life, requires bottled water, and the mere thought of buying Jesse a new pair of soccer cleats after Kate relapses seems downright obscene.
My Sister's Keeper: Summary and book reviews of My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
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Benjamin valorizes those art movements - Dada and Surrealism - that consciously attack bourgeois notions of artistic autonomy, while aligning Futurism with the aestheticized discourse of fascism.
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How we manage to exist like this, with these great surreal contrasts, is a mystery to me.
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Breton, Surrealism's leader and a past master of character assassination, claimed in the final issue of Minotaure that Dali was a self-confessed racist, and Dali chose not to respond.
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This year, visitors can enjoy works by Surrealist masters such as Andre Masson and Giacometti, as well as work by Picasso.
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Still, it wasn't quite as real or, shall we say, emi real, or surreal as Raiders..... and maybe it's hard to say why.
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After days of stories of poverty - and seeing a fair amount of it - the starched white tablecloths and formal service were surreal.
The Sun
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She's also an up-and-coming fiction writer with a penchant for the dark and surreal.
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The subjects are surreally grouped together, with no clear spatial relationships among them.
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The event became even more surreal as the heavens opened and a monsoon rain teemed down, but the boxing went on regardless.
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Furry bodies eclipsed the fans of light spilling through the shutters, turning the scene surreal.
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These wacky, often surreal numbers were shot everyplace from the local zoo to minimalist sound stages to colorful cardboard sets standing in for Bombay, London, Hell, or less identifiable realms.
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They include Mr. Shakhnazarov's perestroika-era "Zero City" 1988, a surreal allegory laced with absurdism, which screened in a series on Russian fantastic cinema.
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She said: 'It was a surreal moment.
The Sun
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Countering accusations of dullness, the insurer's job often borders on the surreal.
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Written in richly described flashbacks that slowly reveal the characters 'almost surreal connections, this deceptively understated novel asks crucial questions about how to live and reconcile history in an atomic age.
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Pay growth is so subdued as to be almost surreal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Capitalism is co-opting social forces, such as surrealism, that once were nobly subversive.
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Only, the surface of the fruit is covered with crystal, giving it a surreal look.
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Driving through the total darkness was a slightly surreal experience.
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Like many midcentury abstractionists, he was influenced by the Surrealist idea of automatism, which he incorporated into his early works.
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Then I asked for a pencil (a stub is all they’ll give you) and some note paper (about 4 inches square is the size I got), and drew a surrealistic view of the sink.
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George Condo: A Collection of Etchings | Condo is typically known for bold paintings so brash as to be referred to as gonzo "artificial realism," the term the artist uses to describe his works, which by turns are meditative, wry, irreverent and fantastical, reflecting Condo's now-iconic surrealistic mash-up of old and modern masters.
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The show ended up being quite surreal, particularly when after My Coco, the crowd would not stop cheering, seemingly choking up the band and the few longtime fans in the audience.
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In that, he is the true heir to Yves Saint Laurent, who could conjure up surrealism without looking a fool.
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What strikes me about the events of the past week is the surreal farcical vulgarity of it all.
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Please aliens come and pick me back home. .living on earth is friggin nightmarish in its surrealism.
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As arguedin this panegyric from the British Observer website, the 30-episode surreal crime drama subtly revolutionized television drama, moving it away from the superficial episodicsof the 80s towards the meatier, more literate fare that’s become the modern bastion of cable television from The Sopranos on down.
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His work is considered a unique style combining impressionism, surrealism and abstract modern painting.
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It's Carnival season here, surreally enough, and one of the features of Carnival during years of political repression was that veiled protest songs were allowed to pass as celebratory street music.
Beverly Bell: In Haiti, "We Will Never Fall Asleep Forgetting"
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Paolozzi shares many of the Surrealists' preoccupations, in particular an interest in the power of dolls and mannequins.
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In well-crafted chapters, Blake describes the interaction between primitivism and the fauvists, cubists, Dadaists, surrealists, and, lastly, purists.
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He is the purest surrealist painter, thinking from first principles about what an art of the unconscious might be.
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It is a surreal satire about spy thrillers.
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While the subject matter may be terminally uneasy viewing for many, the unprejudiced should award accolades to a surrealistic tale of brotherly love and dealing with one's lot.
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But he has the ability to run with issues, to blend text messages and audience e-mails into the mix, constructing a surreal farrago of opinion and comment.
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An unusual slot for surreal comedy, I thought, it must be pitched at the universal absurdist rather than the usual 25-35 pisshead.
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It was said to be a vision of surreal beauty, though evil beyond a child's wildest dreams.
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Only guttural grunts and surreal words-in-isolation issued from my brain and mouth while the record played.
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His style has been loosely described as expressionistic, surrealistic, naive, and primitive, but was also strongly influenced by the urban realism of John Sloan.
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One of his first exhibitions was of Bauhaus work, including type, book and periodical design, and later exhibits expanded to include documents of Dada, Futurism, and Surrealism.
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I would have to say that the movements of Dada and Surrealism have had a positive influence on me.
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The Invisibles is a wild, disorientating, surreal adventure which splices big screen thrills to situationist philosophising.
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After a few years, Dada was replaced by the dreamlike ideas of Surrealism, which continues to the present day.
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The lighting is usually subdued, making colours appear surreal.
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She arranged for her work to be shown in Paris, but she did not regard herself as a surrealist.
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The film was launched with some inspired, and surreal, promotional stunts.
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It was another surreal moment; I know people who would spend a lifetime trying to catch an albino catfish.
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The anti-bourgeois, anti-war and anarchistic Dada movement in the early 1900's is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.
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His universe was a bizarre and surreal place but his writing also hinted at serious themes.
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The room was without air conditioning (global warming ) and it all felt rather surreal.
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His surreal comedy should prove a perfect fit for a kitsch classic, back after nine years, as members of the public sing as their favourite stars.
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The results are surreal; the taste questionable.
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The result is a book that is as addictive as it is surreal, and dripping with caustic humour.
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With other band members singing some of Cuomo's leads, a massive onstage "hootenanny" that had fans playing along to acoustic renditions of tracks like "Island in the Sun," and even the surreal sight of Cuomo kicking over a record player (set up pre-encore) before blasting into a cover of Nirvana's "Sliver," the band has never been so refreshing.
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I have found that the best way to put together completely surreal, futurist combinations of clothes is to go shopping at a Salvation Army or other thrift store in your local gay district, where they will have the best clothes, natch.
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Sometimes Doogan abandons her classical re-visions altogether and heads into surrealism.
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Connections, "said the concept" seems really tragic, kind of surreally tragic "in ways that sex services don't because it symbolizes the worst kind of social isolation.
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Lose yourself at the Wits Theatre in Braamfontein, where Just In Time interweaves mime and movement, and illusion and the surreal take centre stage.
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In her affinity for miniaturism and her desire to make an art about her own past or her fears, she was also on the same track, although not moving at the same speed, as a number of artists associated with Dada or Surrealism, including Dalì, Max Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.
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If the remake, with Nicolas Cage as a rogue cop named Terence McDonagh, commits the sin of entertainment, it's redeemed by a sense of life's contradictions and distinguished by surreal flourishes that include a pair of iguanas, slithery witnesses to Terence's mania.
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There are traces of surrealism, symbolism in his works.
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The cult of artistic and existential evasion in Dada and surrealism made suicide a leitmotif of literary life in inter-war France.
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Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurist performance activities seem to have shared a similar spirit of exploration, of breaking down boundaries, of looking to process instead of product.
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The long greasy blond locks in his face, the raspiness to his voice and his stage presence all scream Cobain in a surreal, time-travel way.
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The ultimate logic of this method is automatic writing developed by the surrealists.
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It seemed a suitably surreal omen for the journey.
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Matt Dillon is as surreally handsome in person as he is on screen.
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He showed a growing distaste for surrealism because of its perceived irrationalism and its criticism of the USSR.
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French surrealists, cubists, and impressionists mostly influence Lebanese artists, who add an oriental touch to the French technique and subject matter.
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You can feel the writers trying to create a new evil nemesis for Steed and the crew, and the surreal set designs and hammy acting by the lead bad guy more than makes up for the 1930s era tin man cyborgs.
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It was surreal walking at around 4am with soldiers and Orthodox Jews walking with a siddur in one hand, a rifle slinged over their shoulder.
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Though suggestive of mystic, pagan rites of purification and primitivism, the film, like all true surrealism, outrageously defies attempts at pigeonholing analysis and close reading.
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The script does wobble - we lurch from naturalism to cinematic surrealism, with apparently little to justify it.
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There is also a large selection of styles - from landscapes and still lifes to abstract expressionism and surrealist art.
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First staged in 1968, the play has often been compared to the surreal and absurd works of world-renowned dramatists Harold Pinter and Eugéne Ionesco.
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Dining out in Japan is a lot more diverse and surreal than it used to be.
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Under the influence of the drug my mind was filled with surreal images.
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The lyrics - slightly surreal sometimes - are suitably uncontrived, simplistic and understandable.
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The script does wobble - we lurch from naturalism to cinematic surrealism, with apparently little to justify it.
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Driving through the total darkness was a slightly surreal experience.
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Johan merges many images together to create his surrealistic dreamscape portraits, with strange little boys as their usual subject matter.
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Events in the office continue to take a turn for the surreal.
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Yes, yes, I know Stephen Fry would be terrific doing that ... but Jim Dale would turn the whole thing into a fairytale rather than an exercise in surrealist humor.
And the one thing that would make it better is actual pie
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The "surreality" of network television is a part of our daily lives.
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The visitors gawk as they troop through one of 10 distinctive pagoda-shaped high-rises at the center of the village, taking in the surreal view from the balcony on the top floor.
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But the house-share, thankfully, was just a springboard for some surreal flights of fancy, particularly aimed at film buffs.
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Which is redolent with the central tenets of surrealism that made Lamarkin swoon (“beauty will be convulsive or not at all.”), when it involved a deep awareness of the unconscious, before it became a synonym for indolence and an excuse for the dirty word of indifference.
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She began to make surrealist sculptures from textile materials.
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Similarly, with Bishop we can see how ongoing interests shaped her work — her early interest in surrealism, or her love of ballads and blues.
Paper Trail
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Los elementos que más lo caracterizaron en sus mejores trabajos, están las perspectivas exageradamente dramáticas, las figuras robustas, el uso audaz de color y frecuente surrealismo, ejemplificados en
David Alfaro Siqueiros ( 1896 - 1974 )
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The surreal absurdity of all this is a joy in itself, while the iridescent underwater scenes border on photorealism.
Times, Sunday Times
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It came out in the art of the teens and twenties, Cubism, Futurism, the Bauhaus, Surrealism.
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This is a magical piece of theatre, with a streak of engaging, sly humour and playfulness that takes you into a theatrical world where naturalism and expressionism, realism and surrealism sit side by side.
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You have to be careful when you incorporate breaking headlines into your scatological slapstick or surreal satire.
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For decades McGarrell has been known for complex paintings that jumble myth, invented fictions and surreal landscapes.
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This season's collections are full of Surrealist touches that make an imaginative change from the dreary crop of smock dresses on the high street.
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Hitler and the Nazis did it effectively, brutally waging war against decadent surrealists and any other artists or writers they considered an aberration from the pure Aryan ideal of art.
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A parody, a surrealistic sculpture in green slime.
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This was surrealism in action long before it moved into the realms of art.
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I had the opportunity to kind of eavesdrop on a couple of interrogations, which are certainly surreal, if you're used to this sort of anti-American propaganda, where the guys are in dungeons and chains, chained to these little, wooden chairs under the bare light bulb, or some guys beating the information out of them.
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These wacky, often surreal numbers were shot everyplace from the local zoo to minimalist sound stages to colorful cardboard sets standing in for Bombay, London, Hell, or less identifiable realms.
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I heard somewhere that Salvador Dali used that technique in order to dream up his surreal images.
