incongruity

Feeling word · 4 styles

Materials from different sources placed together. Inconsistent texture and gloss, no shared hue base; clear borders, no blending. Of material, image, pattern.

Styles

• Surrealism
• Dada
• Symbolism (Painting)
• Vienna Gold Symbolism

Co-occurs with

• the absurd
• spectre
• making strange
• the bizarre
• anamorphosis
• meaninglessness
• superimposition
• oddity
• juxtaposition
• dreamscape
• appropriation
• cipher

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