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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surrealist

1917, from French surréaliste (see surrealism). From 1925 as a noun.

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surrealist

a. of, or relating to surrealism n. a surrealist artist

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surrealist

n. an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism

Usage examples of "surrealist".

One of those Dadaists or Cubists or Surrealists, whatever they were called, whose crazed paintings, sculptures, and writings revealed that their makers were rotten with sin and syphilis.

The Chilean painter, Roberto Matta, one of the last of the surrealists, asked this as yet unanswerable question.

Tanizaki indulges in a vein of almost surrealist fantasy: Okada, drained of health by a vampirish young mistress, is a prey to terrifying hallucinations.

All spring Mom was busy at the Women for Peace center and I was busy conspiring with surrealists and Yippies.

And I knew that it was this same thought which had sent the Impressionists and the Cubists and the Dadaists and the Surrealists and so on in their quite successful efforts to make good pictures which cameras and people like Dan Gregory could not duplicate.

Hundreds of books, as you know, have been filled with exegetical opinions about the Impressionists, Expressionists, Suprematists, Cubists, Futurists, Dadaists, and Surrealists of the early years of this century.

In retrospect, it's easy enough for us to see how Debierue captured the hearts and minds of the remaining Dadaists who were gradually, one by one, dropping out of Dada and losing their hard-earned recognition to the burgeoning Surrealists.

In a gesture worthy of the most accomplished surrealist he slipped them back into a small body cavity.

There is however, a flavor most known in connection with the Zen story - a hint of mindfucking absurdism approaching conceptual art of the surrealist school - which, when adopted by anarchism, transforms it into Zenarchy.

The whole world was suddenly ablaze, the mackerel sky overhead flaming to a surrealist pattern.

But Turbulence seems more like a genuine artifact of apocalypse, a powerful and disturbing work that falls somewhere between outsider art (Drescher is a self-taught illustrator) and the more self-conscious creations of the Dadaists and Surrealists.

Which is why Andre Breton, the leader of the surrealists at the time, began a counterattack on this part of Bataille, also in terms that are echoed by today's critics of postmodernists: "M.

And you can also realize, now, why the Surrealists were so anxious to claim Debierue.

Most Surrealists (Buñuel was an exception) held the opinion that Debierue had gone too far, feeling that he had reached a point of no return.

That's the Satanist, Surrealists and Sadists—the crew who began your illuminization in Chicago.