Švankmajer has gained a reputation over several decades for his distinctive use of stop-motion technique, and his ability to make surreal, nightmarish, and yet somehow funny pictures.

They're surreal pictures, candy colored and strangely loving.

Abandoned Buildings and Dust Indeed, a candidate making a campaign stop in Morrisania would see a sometimes surreal picture.

This could conceivably be a sendup of Sommer's surreal 1939 picture of a chicken head shrouded in the membrane of its innards.

These make fascinating reading and, taken together, present an almost surreal picture of a nation in the midst of profound change.

Several surreal pictures of the head being carried about and then the headless body running around and eventually the two were matched up.

Now he's known, if at all, for a single surreal and nightmarish picture of children at play, which is in the Museum of Modern Art.

The tent interior melted into a surreal, fog-shrouded picture.

Bob was into Dali and making surreal pictures.

Blatantly artificial photographic simulationism is too common now, but Mr. Burzzone's mundane yet surreal pictures are compelling nevertheless (Johnson).