surrealism
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- n a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
- As a school, surrealism has all but died of its own painted agonies.
- After surrealism, new channels for the creative mind There was a time, long past, when modern art was thought dangerous.
- Because the witches, warlocks and whirligigs of surrealism fall emphatically into the category damned by numbskulled Nazis as "degenerate" art, most people thoughtif.