surrealist
surrealist — adjective
1. connected with the early 20th-century artistic movement known as surrealism, in
connected with the early 20th-century artistic movement known as surrealism, in which artists and writers created strange, dreamlike images and scenes that combine ordinary objects in unexpected or impossible ways.
The museum's new wing displays surrealist paintings from the 1920s and 1930s.
collocation: surrealist painting
Linh wrote her final essay on dream imagery in early surrealist cinema.
collocation: surrealist cinema
Constanza's art history essay examined how surrealist photographs placed everyday objects inside empty desert landscapes.
Tamás finds the surrealist poetry of the 1920s both confusing and beautiful.
文法句型
surrealist + noun
用法筆記
This adjective usually appears before a noun (attributive position). Common nouns it modifies include painting, movement, artist, film, literature, and poetry. When the reference is to the official historical movement, some writers capitalise the word.
常見錯誤
surrealist — noun
1. an artist, writer, or filmmaker whose work belongs to the surrealist movement or
an artist, writer, or filmmaker whose work belongs to the surrealist movement or is created in the style of combining unexpected, dreamlike images.
The surrealist René Magritte painted everyday objects in strange, surprising settings.
proper noun appositive: The surrealist + [name]
A group of young surrealists published their first manifesto in Paris in 1924.
group reference: a group of surrealists
The female surrealist Remedios Varo painted characters who travelled in mysterious flying machines.
Surrealist Max Ernst filled his collage novels with Freudian dream symbols and strange hybrid creatures.
- modernist
broader category — all surrealists are modernists, but many modernists (e.g. cubists) are not surrealists
- avant-garde artist
a general term for any artist who experiments with new forms; not movement-specific
文法句型
a/the surrealist
用法筆記
When referring to a member of the official Surrealist movement founded in Paris in the 1920s, the word is sometimes capitalised (a Surrealist). The lower-case form is more common when the reference is broad or general.