Example sentences for: surrealist

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  • It’s been a home-away-from-home for the extreme right Action Française group under Charles Maurras in 1899; the poet and surrealist precursor Apollinaire in 1914 (who, with his friends, liked to provoke brawls); and, during the 1950s, Sartre’s existentialists, a peaceful bunch who never got enough sleep to have the energy to fight.

  • He was drummed out by André Breton after two years--nearly all members were expelled sooner or later--but Breton eventually repented, calling him a "man of prodigies" and perhaps the truest surrealist of all.

  • The Catalan surrealist painter Joan Miró was a longtime resident of this area, and the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró displays a fine selection of his work, as well as his studio as he left it, and his living quarters.

  • He went from painting realistic New York scenes to concocting mythological motifs with titles like Archaic Idol and Tentacles of Memory . In a way, the shift was less abrupt than it seemed, for Rothko traded in one set of underground subjects, the subway, for another, the "depth psychology" strata of the unconscious, with dreamscape bric-a-brac lifted from Surrealist painters Joan Miró and Yves Tanguy.

  • The surrealist fantasy follows John Cusack and Cameron Diaz as a husband and wife who discover how to enter John Malkovich's brain though a miniature door in an office building.


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