surrealism

IPA: sɝˈiɫɪzʌm

An artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious.
(informal) Art with a surreal aesthetic or narrative, regardless of whether or not it is linked to the surrealist movement

Examples of "surrealism" in Sentences

But literary surrealism is a little forgotten, no?
The affinity of the new style with French surrealism is striking.
It's entirely possible that I'm using the term surrealism improperly.
I don't know if magical surrealism is a genre but that's what I would call Kafka on the Shore.
Anyone with half a brain will be leaving this country really soon ... definitely before this four year tour into surrealism is over!
Similarly, with Bishop we can see how ongoing interests shaped her work — her early interest in surrealism, or her love of ballads and blues.
This surrealism is particularly notable in Listen to Britain, a cinema-poem about the sounds of wartime London which reaches out of itself to become a stirring portrait of its people.
But the videos of robotic forms, Imprecise Bodies, that ooze into other forms, as if Salvador Dalí were haunting them, make an argument that there's life left in surrealism, thanks to the imagination that Netzhammer brings to it.
Watching him watch the waitress from behind, you can't help but think of Jan Svankmajer (whose surrealism is never equaled by Drained), or of the silly strain of Czech films epitomized by I Served the King of England by Jirí Menzel, which played at Berlin this year.