Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected colored furniture and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete.

The performances began with a projected sequence of surrealist images, depicting a razor blade cutting into an eyeball, from the 1928 film Un Chien Andalou, by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.

The production was set in an 1920s atmosphere and was inspired by the surrealist images of Man Ray.

She is the subject of some of his best-known images, including the notable surrealist image Le violon d'Ingres and Noire et blanche.

The film's use of Rabelasian wit and brutally surrealist images made it an unforgettable fable.

Pre-war he was a lot more confident in himself and experimented successfully with surrealism, indeed his work with the likes of Vivien Leigh are some of the most accessible surrealist photographic images known.

But what cast a special glow over the collection was his invocation of surrealist images, especially the red lips shown by Man Ray against a mackerel sky in his 1932 painting "The Lovers."

It depicts a seemingly minimal architectural setting with several surrealist images in its finer details.

"The Company's inimitable style of visual and devised theatre [has] an emphasis on strong, corporeal, poetic and surrealist image supporting text" (Stephen Knapper, 2010, Contemporary European Theatre Directors).

Liu Dahong has gone even further, using surrealist images to recreate the ebullience of life in pre-Communist Shanghai.