EVOLUTE99's Common Place

By Inenarrable "And they are dancing, the board floor slamming under the jackboots and the fiddlers grinning hideously over their canted pieces. Towering over them all is the judge and he is naked dancing, his small feet lively and quick and now in doubletime and bowing to the ladies, huge and pale and hairless, like an enormous infant. He never sleeps, he says. He says he’ll never die. He bows to the fiddlers and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his throat and he is a great favorite, the judge. He wafts his hat and the lunar dome of his skull passes palely under the lamps and he swings about and takes possession of one of the fiddles and he pirouettes and makes a pass, two passes, dancing and fiddling all at once. His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never...

  "surrealism, n.". OED Online . June 2012. Oxford University Press. 16 June 2012.  A movement in art and literature seeking to express the subconscious mind by any of a number of different techniques, including the irrational juxtaposition of realistic images, the creation of mysterious symbols, and automatism ; art or literature produced by or reminiscent of this movement. The term surréalisme , coined by Guillaume Apollinaire, was taken over by the poet André Breton as the name of the movement, which he launched with his Manifeste du Surréalisme in 1924; his statement there of the term's meaning is given in quote 1935.  "S urrealism , pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, verbally, in writing, or by other means, the real process of thought" ( D. Gascoyne tr. A. Breton in Short Surv. Surrealism iv. 61).  Hyperrealism, n.  A style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representatio...