Explore Surrealists through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Surrealists meaning
plural of surrealist
Using Surrealists
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of surrealist
- In the example corpus, surrealists often appears in combinations such as: the surrealists, surrealists and, surrealists in.
Context around Surrealists
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Surrealists
- In this selection, "surrealists" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fellow, york, identified, satisfaction, believed and may stand out and add context to how "surrealists" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include to the surrealists satisfaction the and all fellow surrealists in a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "surrealists" sits close to words such as abbe, abeyance and abp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with surrealists
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Not all of the artists in the show are surrealists. (10 words)
Much to the Surrealists' satisfaction the exhibition scandalized the viewers. (10 words)
By 1930, Queneau separated himself significantly from Breton and the Surrealists. (11 words)
In this view, the Surrealists may have been producing great works, but they were products of the conscious, not the unconscious mind, and they deceived themselves with regard to what they were doing with the unconscious. (36 words)
In this sense, Surrealism does not specifically refer only to self-identified "Surrealists", or those sanctioned by Breton, rather, it refers to a range of creative acts of revolt and efforts to liberate imagination. (34 words)
Long after personal, political and professional tensions have fragmented the Surrealist group into thin air and ether, Magritte, Miró, Dalí and the other Surrealists continue to define a visual program in the arts. (33 words)
You probably already know it but…How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
Breton had been insulted by Ehrenburg—along with all fellow surrealists—in a pamphlet which said, among other things, that surrealists were " pederasts ".
De Chirico claimed to have foreseen it in this painting and the surrealists believed him.
Not all of the artists in the show are surrealists.
Before Debord, other well-known artists and poets like the surrealists and Charles Baudelaire had already celebrated the virtues of the city stroller or flâneur.
You probably already know it but…How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
A history of the uneasy relations between Surrealists and Communists from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Breton slapped Ehrenburg several times on the street, which resulted in surrealists being expelled from the Congress.
By 1930, Queneau separated himself significantly from Breton and the Surrealists.
Don Salvador Dalí y Cusi strongly disapproved of his son's romance with Gala, and saw his connection to the Surrealists as a bad influence on his morals.
Freud's work with free association, dream analysis, and the unconscious was of utmost importance to the Surrealists in developing methods to liberate imagination.
His use of the minotaur came partly from his contact with the surrealists, who often used it as their symbol, and it appears in Picasso's Guernica.
In 1942, for the First Papers of Surrealism show in New York, surrealists called on Duchamp to design the exhibition.
In this sense, Surrealism does not specifically refer only to self-identified "Surrealists", or those sanctioned by Breton, rather, it refers to a range of creative acts of revolt and efforts to liberate imagination.
In this view, the Surrealists may have been producing great works, but they were products of the conscious, not the unconscious mind, and they deceived themselves with regard to what they were doing with the unconscious.
Like many surrealists, he entered psychoanalysis—however, not in order to stimulate his creative abilities, but for personal reasons, as with Leiris, Bataille, and Crevel.
Like the surrealists and dadaists, they not only satirically attacked society but also the very structure of film – a counter-cinema that deconstructs narrative and traditional processes.
Long after personal, political and professional tensions have fragmented the Surrealist group into thin air and ether, Magritte, Miró, Dalí and the other Surrealists continue to define a visual program in the arts.
Many writers from and associated with the Beat Generation were influenced greatly by Surrealists.
Much to the surrealists' satisfaction, the exhibition scandalized many of the guests.
Much to the Surrealists' satisfaction the exhibition scandalized the viewers.
Common combinations with surrealists
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the surrealists 14×
- surrealists and 4×
- surrealists in 2×
- many surrealists 2×
- surrealists as 2×
- by surrealists 2×