Lesson 2Surrealism

Surreal Character

Objectives To use surrealism and the surreal Artists art

works to influence your own surreal work.

Outcomes To have participated in a group work activity. To have designed in a group a surreal character.

More key words/ideas and facts

Surrealism

Un real

fantasy

odd

unusualstrange

Dream like

irrationalSalvadore

Dali

Andre BretonRene Magritte

Unconscious mind

Marcel Duchamp

1920’s

Art movement

Juxtaposed

Look at these why are they considered to be surreal?

In pairs discuss the images. Use what we have learnt so far about surrealism to explain why the images are considered surreal.

Try to use some of the key words We learnt about last lesson.

Magritte

Work in pairs to design your own surreal character.

Do not show each other what you are drawing in each section.

Do draw a guide so the person after you knows where to begin their drawing.

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Class workCreate an interesting tile page for your new

project on Surrealism.

Think about some of the images we have looked at

Include a sentence

to describe what

surrealism is…….

INCLUDE KEY WORDS

Homework

Complete the title page you have started in class, include ,

drawing, words and colour.

Due: 17/1/14

Plenary

In your groups Describe your character to the rest of the class. Why is your character surreal?

Surrealism

Objectives To learn about the surrealist artists

Dali and Magritte in more depth.

Outcomes To have produced an image influenced by

Magritte and Dali (Artist response) to later be added to your final Surreal room outcome.

Key WordsJuxtaposedDaliMagritteArtist responseSurrealism

Magritte and Dali

What you will learn today about these artists?

Rene Magritte• Born: 1898 Died: 1967• Nationality: Belgian• He was part of the surrealism art movement.

• He is best known juxtaposition of ordinary objects. (placing objects together that would not normally be seen together.) he produced images which gave ordinary objects new translations

• His images were designed to be thought provoking. This is seen in works such as ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’

• Some of his works include ‘Son of Man’, ‘The talking room’ and Ceci n’est pas une pipe.

• Mother committed suicide when he was 14 years old-it is said that Magritte witnessed rescuers pulling his mothers body from the river, the fabric of her dress was covering her face. This vision haunted him and is seen in his works with faces covered with cloth.

Rene Magritte

Salvador Dali• Born: 1904 Died:1989 of heart failure

• Nationality: Spanish

• He was part of the surrealism art movement

• Dali is best known for his surrealism paintings, Photographs, films and sculptures.

• Some of his works include ‘Persistence of time’, ‘The metamorphosis of Narcissus’ and ‘Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach’

• His art works commonly contained images of armies of ants –which are said to represent death. They also contained images of melting soft clocks-which are said to represent the irrelevance of time in a dream like state.

• His parents told him that he was a reincarnation of his brother who died 9 months before he was born.

• He attended fine art school at the Academy of San Fernando, which he was expelled from after he claimed that no one at the school was fit to examine him.

• He tried to commit suicide numerous times after his wife died but was unsuccessful.

Salvador Dali

This image representsThe story of NarcissusWho fell in love with his Own reflection

What you will be doing today

You will be creating your own surreal image influenced by Salvador Dali or Rene Magritte's images.

You will need to use a whole page in your sketch book to do this.

Examples

This is not a Crunchie Bar

What ideas can you come up With?

Examples

Home work

Find a surreal image by the artist

Rene Magritte.

Make a copy of this image

then write about the image and

what you think it may represent.

Stick a small copy of the image

in your book and add

the title Rene Magritte.

SURREALISM SURREALISM COLLAGECOLLAGEEduardo Recife

JOHN STEZAKER:

EDUARDO RECIFE:Eduardo Recife is an artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and typographer from Brazil. He is creator of Misprinted Type, a website featuring his personal works, collages, drawings, and typefaces

Homework: (Due – Thursday)Homework: (Due – Thursday)

Draw 1 object you have at home but change Draw 1 object you have at home but change /add or take something away from it to /add or take something away from it to

make it surreal !make it surreal !

e.g. a toothbrush with legse.g. a toothbrush with legs

A bag with eyesA bag with eyes

A melting clock/watchA melting clock/watch

Shade or colour !Shade or colour !

MAGRITTE EYE

SURREALISTS EYES IN SHELLS

SURREALIST EYE RELATING TO TIME

Watercolour painting of a surrealist eye –You have previously been copying images of the surrealists looking at making them three

dimensional using tone and contour lines.

VIDEO DEMO

CONTOUR CONTOUR LINESLINES:

CONTOUR CONTOUR LINESLINES:

Cross contour lines are drawn lines which travel, as the name suggests, across the form. Cross contours may be horizontal or vertical, as on the right side of the example, or both. Often, in more complex forms, cross-contours will be drawn at varying angles. In this rather lumpy example, the grid of cross-contours looks a bit like the gridlines on a globe

Homework: Homework: (Due – Tuesday 26(Due – Tuesday 26thth ) )

CREATE A RESEARCH PAGE ON THE CREATE A RESEARCH PAGE ON THE ARTIST SALVADOR DALI ON A ARTIST SALVADOR DALI ON A DOUBLE PAGE OR A3 PAPER.DOUBLE PAGE OR A3 PAPER.

INCLUDE:INCLUDE:

• A COLOURFULL TITLEA COLOURFULL TITLE

• 5 FACTS5 FACTS

• YOUR OPINION ON HIS WORKYOUR OPINION ON HIS WORK

• 2 IMAGES2 IMAGES

Objectives

To learn what one point perspective is/means.

To learn how to apply this knowledge to your own surreal room designs.

OutcomesTo have learnt what one point perspective means

and to have produced a one point perspective drawing of a room with a window and door

Does anybody know what one point perspective actually means?

Definition

A view looking deep into a picture, where everything in the picture leads to one point.

One point perspective

What is a vanishing point?

Where do you think the vanishing point is in this image?

What is a horizon line?

Where do you think the horizon line is?

One point perspective

Where is the Vanishing pointIn this image?

Where is the Horizon line in This image?

One point perspective

This is when all Major lines in an image lead to one point, This is called the vanishing point.

Even though we Know the railwayLines are the sameDistance apart theyAppear to meet at One point in the Distance the vanishingPoint. (the deepest spot of the picture where things appear to vanish)

With one point perspective the image always leads towards the vanishing point.The vanishing point sits on the horizonThe horizon is where the sky meets the land.

One point perspective

For each image using a coloured pencil mark and label the vanishing point and the horozan line

One point perspective:

One point perspective window

One point perspective door

Objectives To understand how to use influences from

both primary (observational drawing)and secondary sources(images of objects), to create a surreal room design.

To understand how to use surreal artists work to influence your work in some way.

Outcomes

To have created an initial design for your surreal room.

To have applied bold colour to this work.

You must include at least 2 objects you drew from observation in previous lessons

What you will be doing today

Pupils work

Pupils work

Pupils work

Pupils work

Comment on each others work

Swap your surreal room design with the person next to you.

Pick one object on their work you think they could make more surreal, now make a suggestion of how they can do this.

Now suggest to them another object or idea they could possibly introduce into their work.

They could make the object appear more surreal by……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

I also think they should include……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

TASKS:TASKS:

1.Create an A3 bedroom – remember to use one point perspective !

2.Fill the room with surreal objects , patterns and ideas – remember to refer to surrealist paintings to get the higher level.

Level 5 – 6Level 5 – 6

Level 4 - 5Level 4 - 5

ELLIPSE

An ellipse is a smooth closed curve which is symmetric about its horizontal and vertical axes.

ELLIPSE

Pupils work

Level descriptors for Surreal roomLevel 4• You have drawn a room with a bed, window and door using one point perspective with some accuracy.• You have included at least one object in your room which you have drawn from observation. (primary source)• You have made some changes to the objects in your room to make them appear surreal in some

way. (either by changing size or appearance)• You have included juxtaposed objects in your room.

Level 5• You have drawn a room with a bed, window, door and cupboard using one point perspective which is mostly

accurate. • You have included at least one object in your room which you have drawn from observation; you have added

some tonal areas to this object.• You have made some changes to the objects in your surreal room in some way. (either by changing size or

appearance)• You have included juxtaposed objects in your room.• You have included some sort of reference in your work to the surreal artists we have looked at in class Magritte or

Dali

Level 6• You have drawn a room with a bed, window, door and cupboard using one point perspective with

accuracy.• You have included at least two objects in your room which you have drawn from observation with

accuracy. (primary source)• You have added tonal areas with accuracy.• You have made considerable changes to objects in your surreal room. (Either by changing size or

appearance.)• You have included juxtaposed objects in your surreal room.• You have included reference in your work to one of the surreal artists we have looked at in class Magritte

or Dali. (your artist response is included somewhere in your room)

OP Art: HOMEWORK

On one A4 page in your book write 5 facts about OP Art, then find an OP Art image

and make a copy of it underneath.

Due – TUESDAY 23/04/13