“The painting created a sense of surreality, with its bizarre mix of recognizable objects and dreamlike imagery.”
“The war novel contains an element of surreality in order to deny the horror.”
“It is dance as theatre, concert and ballet in one, and shows how full of originality and surreality high modernism could be.”
surrealism
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.