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SURREALISMAnd the artists:
RENE MAGRITTE and Salvador Dali
• Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and
artistic movementthat attempted to express
the workings of the
subconscious by using
fantastic imagery and
the juxtaposition of
subject matter.
• Surrealism is a term that refers to a heightened
sense of reality; translated from French, the
term means: “over-realism”-- a vision of
reality that supersedes the mundane!
• Dream-like
• Out of the
ordinary…
Rene Magritte was a Belgian surrealist
painter.
He painted in a realistic
style. While the objects
appear to the viewer to
be recognizable, the
composition of those
recognizable objects
appears fantastic.
Magritte was deeply
interested in the
process of thought,
and his paintings
tend to raise the
awareness of the
viewer to their own
thought processes.
• More often than not, Magritte chose ordinary things from which to construct his works - trees, chairs, tables, doors, windows, shoes, shelves, landscapes, people. He wanted to be understood via these ordinary things, but he also wanted to shock and surprise his viewers.
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Dali was a leader of the Surrealist Movement, but begin to clash with the rest of the Surrealist and was expelled from the group in 1934. His most well known painting is of the image of melting clocks called, “Persistence of Memory”
Persistence of Memory
Surrealistic Techniques -“How to make the
ordinary look extraordinary”• Scale
• Levitation• Juxtaposition• Dislocation• Transparency• Transformation
SCALE
Changing an object’s scale, or relative size.
SCALE
Personal Values
SCALE
SCALE
LEVITATION
Floating objects that don’t normally float
LEVITATION
LEVITATION
JUXTAPOSITION
Joining two images together in impossible
combinations
JUXTAPOSITION
JUXTAPOSITION
DISLOCATION
Taking an object from its usual environment and placing it in an
unfamiliar one
DISLOCATION
DISLOCATION
TRANSPARENCY
Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent
TRANSPARENCY
TRANSPARENCY
TRANSFORMATION
Changing objects in unusual way
TRANSFORMATION
TRANSFORMATION
Surreal Collage Drawing
Find at least 3 images to cut out from the magazines and use them in your drawing.
Projects will be graded on:
• Craftsmanship- cut very carefully, no glue showing, scribble coloring, etc.
• Creativity: how creative were you in creating your collage drawing?
• Skill: how does this artwork compare to the work you have done in the past?
You can use collage as the main part of your artwork,
or your drawing can be the main design with the collage as an addition.
Using the collage to create one image: a face for example, with a touch of drawing for detail.
Today…
• Find, cut out, and save as many images as you can that might help you create a surreal collage. (put them in your sketchbook or box)
• Using those images, sketch out some ideas that you might want to do for your drawing.
• Remember to cut with good craftsmanship…
• no jagged lines
Next class: fill the paper with images, drawing and color!!
BE CREATIVE!!!