the absurd

Feeling word · 3 styles

Premises that cannot hold. Spatial seams misaligned, proportion inconsistent, light and shadow contradicting; no transition. Of buildings, everyday objects.

Styles

• Surrealism
• Dada
• The Incoherents

Co-occurs with

• disorder
• incongruity
• juxtaposition
• the bizarre
• anamorphosis
• appropriation
• meaninglessness
• satire
• camp
• gallows humour
• illusion
• impossibility

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