#surrealism

#surrealism

In the opening scene of Time Flower, a surrealist film by the zoologist Desmond Morris, a woman is lying facedown on the ground, clutching the grass with manicured hands and shaking her head.

In OsamaSon's new music video for "Ref.", director Walker Andrews delivers a surreal visual experience, featuring striking imagery that amplifies the song's themes.

The streaming platform Apple TV+ seems to prize quirky, kooky narratives set in whimsical mid-century settings over coherent storytelling, leading to a focus on style over substance.

The unreality makes a high-concept reveal feel inevitable, whether it's a Don't Worry Darling scenario where the characters are living in a simulated reality or some kind of Stepford Wives situation where half the residents are either robots or have been brainwashed into docile perfection.

I love that this game is easy to understand. The first time I played with a group of friends, the game went on for two hours because we could brilliantly sabotage each other and team up so no one won but everyone was close.

Tatsuya transforms everyday objects into surreal miniature art, creating optical illusions that allow viewers to see familiar scenes from a new, imaginative perspective.

Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, actively engaged in anti-fascist resistance during WWII, strategically disrupted Nazi soldiers’ morale through the dissemination of subversive materials throughout Jersey.

Pivi's installation challenges viewers' expectations, creating visual tension between the helicopter's imposing presence and its newfound stillness inside the deconsecrated church.

I can't explain it, but stuff just appears inside and somehow I know who needs it.

Art is the revelation of nature's darkest secrets, those that remain hidden beneath the everyday appearance.

Tanning's art captures the duality of confidence and fragility as she presents a still moment in her otherwise dreamlike, motion-filled paintings featuring mythical transformations.

As we know, surrealism is based on the idea of a higher degree of reality connected to certain associations previously overlooked, on the impotence of the dream, and on the disinterested play of thought.