A woman who enjoyed rare success as an architect and theorist, Bo Bardi resisted the label of feminist pioneer and conjured a cheerfully surrealistic community leisure centre out of an abandoned factory in São Paulo.
Influenced by Pop art, commercial and advertising art, and comics, the Imagists created, to varying degrees, works that were figurative, narrative, and surrealistic and that butted against the Modernist abstract and conceptual art then dominating the New York City art scene.
At the same time, Fănuş Neagu depicted life in the Danube region and Bucharest in surrealistic colours in Îngerul a strigat (1968; "The Angel Cried Out") and Frumoşii nebuni ai marilor oraşe (1976; "Handsome Madmen of the Big City").
A curiously surrealistic intrusion into this tropical paradise is the Folly Ruins, the decaying remains of a Roman-style villa built by an American millionaire at the turn of the 20th century.
In the poetry of his maturity, he used a rich flow of surrealistic imagery in dealing with metaphysical questions.
The first film to utilize surrealistic production design in a major way, Caligari is a key work of the Expressionist movement in post-World War I Germany.
Mexican painter and muralist who created realistic and surrealistic works that were inspired by Paul Cézanne, El Greco, Vincent van Gogh, Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí.
His most important early book of verse, Le Marteau sans maître (1934; "The Hammer Without a Master"), was Surrealistic in style, being marked by verbal luxuriance and a free play of imagery.
Humour remained an important characteristic of his music, as in the Surrealistic comic opera Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1947; The Breasts of Tiresias), based on a farce by Apollinaire.
February 7 , 1929Tocopilla, Chile Alejandro Jodorowsky, (born February 7 , 1929 Tocopilla, Chile) Chilean-born French filmmaker and author known for his surrealistic films, especially El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973).
The overall impression is one of a surrealistic other world in which natural objects such as birds, trees, stars, cows, and fish have human emotions and human figures seem cosmic or semidivine.
