In his third Shakespeare screen adaptation (after "Henry V" in 1944 and "Hamlet" in 1948), Olivier added material from "Henry VI" to set historical context and, Mr. Lees says, gave the sets a surrealistic look to prepare audiences for the language.
Among the better known artists are Alasdair Gray, a successful novelist who makes strange, surrealistic prints that look a bit like drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, and Steven Campbell, a member of the 1980s Glasgow Boys.
(This yields the surrealistic-looking imagery of elderly Indonesians wearing spectacles with multi-coloured lenses, looking like characters in a sci-fi movie).
Mr. Kozol said he remembered children playing with garbage in the stairwells, and he described the ballroom of the Prince George as packed with shouting adults and crying children and looking like a "scene from a surrealistic movie".
In this series, the artist's world is a kind of surrealistic society made up of bizarre iconic characters that you might find parading around Times Square looking for a handout.
With extended looking, one starts to feel a certain leveling decorousness, but there are intriguing oddities, like Stavit Allweis's picture of a wild-eyed girl in a pool of water, a kind of surrealistic fairy painting (Johnson).
It looks like a surrealistic chandelier or the aftermath of an ice storm.
In both his most popular play (the backstage farce Noises Off, 1982) and his least popular (Look, Look, 1990, a surrealistic piece set in an auditorium), Frayn played with the physical comedy and philosophical oddity of people watching people pretending to be other people.
Some have Brancusian simplicity; some are surrealistic and some look like backwoods folk art (Johnson).
Full of surrealistic cliches, his bright, glossy oil paintings mostly look like sophomoric illustration; but two large pictures of hyperactive hipsters, in apartments where things mysteriously levitate, have a trippy urgency (Johnson).
The main banking hall now has desks, a bar, Mexican banners and a fantastical assortment of art and objects: snakeskins, surrealistic paintings, a carousel horse, a painting that looks like an old-master portrait.
