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Bear Surprise

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Bear Surprise is a watercolor painting by the American painter and musician John Lurie, in a style described as primitivist and naive. It depicts a couple having sex in a meadow while a bear stands in front of them with its forepaws raised, a speech bubble beside its head reading Surprise. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Watercolour 1
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Painting 1
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Watercolor painting 1
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Source Bear Surprise (Wikipedia)

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Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. Bear Surprise (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Bear Surprise (often dubbed just Surprise!) is a watercolor painting by American painter/musician John Lurie, the style of which has been described as primitivist and naive
  • Genre reference
    Bear Surprise is a watercolor painting by the American painter and musician John Lurie, in a style described as primitivist and naive.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Bear Surprise (often dubbed just Surprise!) is a watercolor painting by American painter/musician John Lurie, the style of which has been described as primitivist and naïve. The painting depicts a couple having sex in a meadow, wi
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Wikidata: Bear Surprise
Wikidata Q4287249, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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