Example sentences for: surrealism

How can you use “surrealism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • During the 1940s she shed the last bits of hard-edged Weimar sensibility and enacted a version of Surrealism entirely her own, dense with Ernst-like bugs and birds and creepy Matta-ish plant forms.

  • It's a moment of sheer absurdity played straight and almost in slow motion, until we realize belatedly that the escalating surrealism has just earned us the only weeping session of the season.

  • As one ventures deeper into the 20 th century, from Dadaism to Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, it is Harnett one thinks of more often than Cézanne.

  • The struggle with influences and the experiments with points of view, narrative mode, characterization, realism, surrealism, vernacular language, and the like is all very natural--even predictable--and thus, baldly apparent here.

  • Rebelling against conservative religion under the dual influences of surrealism and psychoanalysis, Borduas led the school of Québec Automatistes, represented here with outstanding works by Jean-Paul Riopelle, born in 1923.


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