He used these images as the inspiration for surreal but fascinating paintings.

By the early 1940s, Tanning was working on her own surreal paintings while supporting herself as a commercial artist.

As she drove, the rain beat against the windshield, fracturing space and turning the streets ahead into surreal pointillistic paintings.

'It's particularly fun when all the actors come in dressed up in costume - it's like being in some surreal painting.'

On first glance, the darkness made it possible to think of the scene as a kind of surreal painting.

Nihonga-styled surreal paintings and installations that often feature wolves and other regular motifs.

He is known as a prolific producer of surreal paintings and book covers, for many science-fiction and fantasy authors.

For instance, one portfolio may be mainly for doing technical illustrations and another may be for surreal painting or sculpture.

She recalled an adolescent boy who was in complete tune with the surreal paintings of Magritte.

"It's like a surreal painting, and we'll try to show reality and non-reality at the same time."