These descriptions might fit with the weird crap reposted ... from scammers to professional artists — stuck on this flat, kitschy, sometimes hackneyed form of surrealism?

"All the artists in our exhibition were personally ... brush reality aside when it gets too distressing". If we find Surrealism funny, we're not necessarily missing the point.

It was a literary idea that became an art movement and revolutionized nearly all forms of cultural production. It’s now commonplace to call pretty much any weird experience “surreal.” ...

Rome artist Luigi Serafini became a cult rock star of the art world with the 1981 publication of his surreal and whimsical ...

It was the next era of the fetishisation of food, taking shape in weird and wonderful jelly ... In the work of today’s food artists, as with many of their predecessors, sustenance takes on a surreal ...

the $120 million paid for René Magritte’s L’empire des Lumières (1954), and the fact the word “surreal” lives on in the vernacular, flattened to simply indicate something weird.

Laure Prouvost, creator of work that is gloriously messy and unrepentantly weird, is an art star. When she represented ... The accompanying video recounted a surreal road trip by car, horse ...

Gala exhorted him to rename himself Paul Éluard and in 1917 married him in Paris, where the couple joined other artists and writers at the dawn of Surrealism.