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What is another word for surrealists?

Pronunciation: [səɹˈi͡əlɪsts] (IPA)

Surrealism is a movement that emerged in the 1920s which sought to explore the subconscious mind and free the imagination. Those who subscribe to this movement are commonly referred to as surrealists. However, there are several alternative terms that can be used to describe this group, such as dreamers, phantasmagorists, visionaries, and unreality artists. Additionally, some may refer to them as avant-garde artists due to their unconventional and experimental style. Regardless of the term used, surrealists have made significant contributions to the world of art and continue to inspire new generations of artists to explore the boundaries of the subconscious and push the limits of reality.
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  • Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.
    Kenneth Koch
  • The surrealists still see things as everyone sees them, they complicate them in a different way but the vision is that of everyone else, in short the complication is the complication of the twentieth century but the vision is that of the nineteenth century. Picasso only sees something else, another reality. Complications are always easy but another vision than that of all the world is very rare.
    Gertrude Stein
  • I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.
    J. G. Ballard

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