Luis Buñuel

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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1. When was Luis Buñuel born?February 22, 1900, in Calanda, Spain
2. When did Luis Buñuel die?July 29, 1983, in Mexico City, Mexico
3. What is the career?Filmmaker, director, screenwriter
4. What is the key artistic movement?Surrealism
5. Who was Luis Buñuel?Luis Buñuel was a Spanish filmmaker born in 1900 who made movies that looked like wild dreams and challenged what people expected.
6. What is surrealism?Surrealism is an art style that shows strange, dreamlike scenes and mixes ordinary things in unexpected ways.

Surrealism: A 20th-century artistic and literary movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, as by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
Avant-garde: New and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature; the people who develop these ideas.
Satire: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Iconoclast: A person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.