Sentences with phrase «embrace surrealism»

He was one of the first American artists to embrace surrealism and his style seems to be a blend of various types of painting incorporating techniques that range from the Renaissance to Folk Art and, of course, to Surrealism.

Mexican artists did not embrace surrealism in significant numbers, for which Breton never forgave them (or the country, for the assassination of Trotsky in August 1940).

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Rejecting social realism and regionalism of the 1930s, this generation of artists embraced abstract surrealism - a nonobjective language with limitless possibilities.

Painters like Williams are clearly attached to a tradition but compelled to advance it by embracing contrary traditions — abstraction, surrealism, naturalism — and by inventing a cohesive, if deliberately unstable, whole.

Embracing and melding abstraction, surrealism, social documentary and street photography, Walker's work challenges the myth of a singular African - American aesthetic.

A figurative painter at the outset of his career, Bischoff experimented with a form of surrealism during the 1940s before enthusiastically embracing Abstract Expressionism.