Théo van Rysselberghe abandoned realism and became an adept of pointillism.

In 1964 Parajanov abandoned socialist realism and directed the poetic Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, his first film over which he had complete creative control.

Abandoning realism, this virtuoso passage, deeply influenced by mid-century surrealism, imagines the ballet as if projected direct from Page's subconscious.

Charles Pollock abandoned social realism in the 1940s, and turned to abstract expressionism and Color Field painting.

He abandoned realism in favor of abstraction.

But it also enabled him to abandon realism and return to modern art.

It seemed that she had abruptly abandoned quasi-autobiographical realism for something thrilling or alienating, depending on your point of view.

After its publication, he abandoned realism and worked in a very different manner.

Abandoning realism, he turned to abstraction and collage.

About halfway through the book, after Roxanna flees both Iran and her family, Nahai also abandons magic realism.