Example sentences for: surrealists

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

  • He was an early member of the surrealists and director of the group's Central Research Bureau.

  • It is likely that one's taste deteriorates under the continuous barrage of vulgarity: many who today admire the dadaists, cubists, surrealists, hard-edge realists, nonobjective and abstract artists would have reviled them, along with a significant percentage of the population, had they been dalive when their paintings first appeared, just as staid, conservative critics condemned the impressionists and advocates of other nouvelles vagues . Is it that we gradually become accustomed to what we first perceive as trash--as vulgarity--and become inured to it, or that we come to understand and, if not enamored of it, at least tolerate it as a legitimate form of expression?

  • On both counts, prewar anti-clericalism and postwar apocalyptic angst gave the Surrealists and Dubuffet, respectively, historic urgency lacking in the gratuitous neo-primitivism of Ofili.

  • He went to Paris and hung out with Surrealists, deepening his sense that a writer's job is to reveal what society tries to repress.

  • The great bohemias of history--Murger's and Charles Baudelaire's 19 th -century Paris, Bloomsbury, the French and German Dadaists, the Surrealists, the Beats, the indie rock scene--were flamboyant and self-enthralled.


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