surrealist
/səˈriːəlɪst/
noun
- An artist or writer who creates works that combine strange, dreamlike, or unexpected images and ideas, often in a way that seems illogical or fantastical.
- As a surrealist, she wrote poems that mixed everyday scenes with bizarre, dreamlike details.
- Many surrealists were influenced by Freud's theories of the unconscious mind.
- The gallery featured a famous surrealist whose paintings showed melting clocks and floating objects.
- A person who has a very unusual, imaginative, or dreamlike way of thinking or behaving.
- The comedian's humor marked him as a surrealist, always surprising the audience with odd twists.
- She's a surrealist in the kitchen, combining ingredients like chocolate and pickles.
- My uncle is a bit of a surrealist — he once planned a picnic on a frozen lake in July.
adjective
- Relating to or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary movement that explores the irrational, dreamlike, and unexpected.
- He wrote a surrealist play where characters turned into furniture mid-sentence.
- Her surrealist photography used double exposures to create ghostly, impossible scenes.
- The museum's surrealist exhibition included paintings of floating eyes and upside-down trees.
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