How can you mention nonsense without mentioning Lewis Carroll and Salvador Dali? The latter of which is clearly the parent of this.
James and the giant peach and MSND are pale examples of surrealism compared with the Alice books (not saying they aren't good, but hardly the best example of surrealism)
I didn't mention Lewis Carroll (even though he's actually my favourite purveyor of nonsense) because I'd already used two children's book writers in my analogy and I didn't want to give the impression that nonsense is only for kids. James and the Giant Peach seemed like a more suitable analogy to these paint things because of its content, which was visually evocative and simple, rather than Lewis Carroll who is visually evocative but highly complex, and also with a greater level of wordplay (which doesn't really work as an analogy to silly MS Paint pics).
And I didn't mention Dali because even though he's a surrealist, he isn't funny.
I didn't mention Lewis Carroll (even though he's actually my favourite purveyor of nonsense) because I'd already used two children's book writers in my analogy and I didn't want to give the impression that nonsense is only for kids. James and the Giant Peach seemed like a more suitable analogy to these paint things because of its content, which was visually evocative and simple, rather than Lewis Carroll who is visually evocative but highly complex, and also with a greater level of wordplay (which doesn't really work as an analogy to silly MS Paint pics).
And I didn't mention Dali because even though he's a surrealist, he isn't funny.