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Daliesque

[ dah-lee-esk ]

adjective

  1. of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of the surrealist art of Salvador Dali:

    giant advertising posters depicting Daliesque distortions of everyday objects.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of Daliesque1

First recorded in 1940–45; Dali + -esque
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His painting “Maison hantée” took three months to paint, and the dozens of images, many of them quite disturbing and Dalíesque, reflect the state of the world, he said.

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He was dressed in a rather severe dark suit, no one around him, a solitary figure, available for a ruling if called upon, but looking more like a fragile figure in a Daliesque landscape.

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I clicked the mandala again, and the machine continued writing its Daliesque version of Ross’s Profile, using, in addition to the first prompt, the prose it had already generated to generate from:

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Take the piggy bank: Once a simple symbol for savings, it’s been transformed under Trump into a Daliesque container of grotesque impossibilities.

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Oscar Akermo, a wispy 22-year-old Swede, does Daliesque portraiture in black and gray ink.

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