Sentence examples for surrealist element from inspiring English sources

Many poems have a surrealist element.

Using black humour and grotesque and Surrealist elements, Arrabal creates nightmarish works.

He brought in many signature high-tech and surrealist elements, like an enormous LED screen backdrop (cue the flying doves and celestial imagery), floating lampposts and trapezes.

Somehow, the poem resembles a primitivist painting, one of the less exotic landscapes by Henri Rousseau, perhaps, vividly splicing realist and surrealist elements.

Through a conversation early in the book that the narrator has with an old man in the village, Azzam gives us justification of the book's surrealist elements.

Made in 1927, as the silent era was drawing to a close, the film is a highly kinetic farce that contains some residual surrealist elements, including a fantasy sequence with sinister men in silk hats, a bed that scoots around by itself, and a general delight in that favorite surrealist trope, furniture being flung out of windows.

Like the antic historical novels of an earlier generation — Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," Doctorow's "Ragtime" — or the sort of steam-punk fiction that William Gibson and Bruce Sterling have produced, these books sometimes seem to regard anachronism and surrealist elements not as pitfalls but as stimulating mashups.

"There is an element of surrealist about Warhol.

The juxtaposition of unexpected or impossible images is, for example, a particularly strong element in surrealist poetry and haiku.

Mr. Janas's images are unruly, symbol-heavy aggregates of Abstract Expressionist brushwork, distended bubble-gum-pink Surrealist forms and metallic elements of a sinister geometric Constructivist nature.

It's the old surrealist trick of combining elements from disparate sources to conjure outlandish images that seem to be from other worlds.