Word: surrealistes
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...baroque frontiers, the surrealist police...
Traveling to Chicago, Surrealist Salvador Dali telegraphed ahead to a friend to notify the press he was coming. Upon arrival he went quickly to the Art Institute, had himself photographed beside one of his paintings while Mrs. Dali gurgled: "Isn't it awful? He has to submit to this everywhere...
...surrealist is Berney, owner of Berney's Restaurant, Jacksonville, Fla., but a wide-awake, up-and-coming restaurateur, who carries out a green motif from A to Z, scattering Irish shamrocks about his establishment with finesse seldom equaled by a Jew. Dressed completely in green day and night, he will give to any woman dressed entirely in green the choice of his menu, gratis...
Surrealism suited his extraordinary technical facility as a draughtsman, his morbid nature. Salvador Dali, with exquisite drawing and brilliant color, began to paint his nightmares on pieces of panel hardly bigger than postcards. He not only made surrealist paintings, he wrote surrealist poems, helped produce the first two surrealist films: Le Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. The first had a great deal to do with pianos filled with carcasses of dead donkeys. In the latter the great seduction scene to which the whole film rises is symbolized by a view of a bedroom window through which...
...word surrealist was first used in 1917 when late Poet Guillaume Apollinaire subtitled his play Les Mamelles de Tiresias, Drame Surrealiste...