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.

  • As Lacan progresses through psychiatry, World War II (as a doctor in France), surrealism, psychoanalysis, structuralism--Lacan's life was apparently a magnet for everything intellectually interesting happening in France: He was, for example, Picasso's personal doctor--he seems to have had a knack for finding useful fathers.

  • 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.

  • Ballard's complex, image-driven fiction partakes of surrealism, hovers within the orbits of sci-fi, and laps at the outré.

  • A retrospective rescues the American sculptor from his reputation as the unsubstantial "user-friendly modernist" (Roberta Smith, the New York Times ). Reviewers say the show highlights the way Surrealism inspired Calder's now-forgotten grotesque sculptures from the 1930s.


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