Yet these early works are thrilling thinly painted, intensely observed, sometimes surrealist and often awkward.
Hacking the electronics, he put the TVs on display, their pictures more distorted than Surrealist paintings.
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The absurdist quality in Mr Alys's pedestrian performances owes something to the artist's Belgian surrealist forebears.
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Dad, who does not appear in the film, is Pop-Surrealist painter Carroll Dunham.
Late-era surrealist paintings by Salvador Dali and bronze sculptures by Henry Moore continued to hold bidders' interest, though.
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Where other car-customizers modified Chevys and Fords, Roth built wholly new, surrealist cars.
Tapies' early work was strongly influenced by surrealist painters like Miro and Klee.
Mr Gao, who lives in exile in Paris, has translated the French surrealist poets, as well as Ionesco and Becket.
Man Ray in the 1920s used solarisation, which gives photographs negative and positive characteristics, a perfect technique for a surrealist.
His first stab at the art market a surrealist group exhibition was cut short by the outbreak of the second world war.
But by then surrealism had broken free from the surrealist movement to start changing the way we look at the world.
Gainesbourg, most recently seen in Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep, infuses the song with qualities of Gondry's sad, surrealist love story.
Once, she held a surrealist dinner, all diving suits and lobsters, over which she presided in a sheer green dress that was almost completely transparent.
The early-20th-century Surrealist art market has grown rapidly in recent years.
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Like their male counterparts, the women of this exhibition adhered to the Surrealist notion of accidental discovery, bucking bourgeois culture in favor of intellectual freedom and self-discovery.
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Autumn Fallin' features songs written in an imaginative, surrealist style.
From "pina colada pillow" cocktails to extracting the unique flavor of prawn heads, his kitchen team provide the unexpected in a way the surrealist would likely have approved of.
The same year saw the publication of "Picasso 1881-1973, " a collection of essays co-edited with Roland Penrose that included his own seminal discussion of Picasso's complex relationship to the Surrealist movement.
She points out how Ms. Abercrombie added Surrealist elements: a wise or perhaps not wise owl, a phallic lighthouse and a conch shell, which refer to sexuality, according to Ms. Fort.
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The couple is the exclusive dealer for photographer and surrealist artist David LaChapelle in Asia and launched their Hong Kong outpost with a successful show of Chinese artist Zao Wou-ki's colourful abstract canvases.
The Spanish Surrealist artist's 1949 watercolor and gouache drawing was one of more than a dozen works on display in the first exhibition of the gallery, launched last May by art collector Adam Lindemann.
The company organizes its products into nature- and literature-inspired collections, such as the plant-based Linneo (named after Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy) or South American cedar-heavy Borges, named after surrealist Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
From Cardiff a selected exhibition will go on to tour visiting Leeds- where one of Richards' work is still on display since a major surrealist show in the 1980s - and the Glyn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea.
"In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States" features about 175 works by 48 artists from the 1930s to the 1970s and examines women as both subject and creator within the Surrealist movement.
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So for example there was a surrealist philosopher called Francesc Pujols, who was a personal friend of Antonio Gaudi and a personal friend of Salvador Dali, and had a major influence on both those people as they did on him.
Once you descend into Cadaques, a town that drew Pablo Picasso (The Port at Cadaques, 1910), and Surrealist artists like Jean Miro and Marcel Duchamp, it is only a few more kilometres to Portlligat and the wondrous, white Salvador Dali House Museum (reservations are required).
The house is one of the Dali triad that includes the Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres and the Gala Dali Castle-House Museum in Pubol, but Portlligat is where the famous Surrealist lived from 1930 to 1982 and where he created works like The Madonna of Portlligat.
For the last quarter of a century, Mr Cartier-Bresson eschewed photography, taking only the occasional snapshot of friends and family, and turning his attention to drawing. (He trained originally as a painter, his early work influenced by his friend, the surrealist artist Max Ernst.) He maintained that he scarcely wanted to discuss photography any more.
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