surrealist
Illogical art maker
A surrealist is an artist or writer associated with surrealism, the early 20th-century movement that sought to express the unconscious mind through dreamlike imagery and irrational juxtapositions.
The term also works as an adjective: surrealist painting, surrealist film.
More loosely, surrealist describes anything bizarre or dreamlike: The meeting descended into surrealist chaos.
Below conscious awareness
- oneiricRelating to dreams
- phantasmagoriaShifting sequence of illusions
- hallucinatorySeeming falsely perceived
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
uncanny · dislocation · juxtaposition · chimera · apparition · enigma · illusion · fantastical
Strikingly unconventional
- absurdWildly illogical
- uncannyEerily beyond normal
- grotesqueDistorted, bizarre figure
- incongruousNot fitting together harmoniously
illogical · distorted · melting · floating · disembodied · fragmented · hybrid · biomorphic
Involuntary mechanical behavior
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- frottageTexture impression method
- decalcomaniaImage transfer technique
- photomontageCombined image artwork
assemblage · found object · double image · chance · spontaneity · free association · stream of consciousness
Absurdist artistic rebellion
- PhotomontageAssembled picture combination
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- SymbolismArt emphasizing ideas over reality
- FuturismArt glorifying technology and speed
subconscious
Below conscious awareness
- oneiricRelating to dreams
- phantasmagoriaShifting sequence of illusions
- hallucinatorySeeming falsely perceived
metamorphosis · uncanny · dislocation · juxtaposition · chimera · apparition · enigma · illusion · fantastical · ethereal
bizarre
Strikingly unconventional
incongruous · illogical · distorted · melting · floating · disembodied · fragmented · hybrid · biomorphic · symbolic
automatism
Involuntary mechanical behavior
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- frottageTexture impression method
- decalcomaniaImage transfer technique
photomontage · assemblage · found object · double image · chance · spontaneity · free association · stream of consciousness
Dadaism
Absurdist artistic rebellion
- PhotomontageAssembled picture combination
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- SymbolismArt emphasizing ideas over reality
Dalí
Spanish surrealist painter
Man Ray · Carrington · Hugo · Penrose
- genresaction, comedy, detective fiction, fantasy, horror
- art stylesimpressionism, cubism, pop art, minimalism, expressionism
- artistsPablo Picasso, painter, artist, illustrators, Leonardo da Vinci
- film genreshorror, comedy, drama, action, romance
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
- poetry typeshaiku, sonnet, limerick, ballad, ode
surrealistrealist
One accepting hard truths
naturalist · photorealist · hyperrealist · neorealist · literalist
surrealistrationalist
One guided by reason
empiricist · positivist · logician · literalist · materialist
surrealistconventional
Following accepted practices
prosaic · mundane · literal-minded · matter-of-fact · down-to-earth
- surrealist movementArt rejecting rational reality
- surrealist imageryIllogical visual compositions
- surrealist filmMovie rejecting conventional narrative
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