SURREALISM

a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Creative Strategies Used in Surrealism

JUXTAPOSITION : the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

TRANSFORMATION: The act of changing in form ,shape or appearance. Turning something familiar into unusual or strange.

Some important Surrealist Artists

Salvador Dali

Rene Magritte

Dorthea Tanning

Leonora Carrington

Salvador Dali

Geopoliticus Goodness, Truth and Beauty

Galatea of the Sphere

Rene Magritte

Siren Le thérapeute

The Lovers

The Listening Room

I Saw Three Cities

KAY SAGE

The Gift

Dorthea Tanning

Family Portrait

Leonora Carrington

Create a collage that uses the following creative strategies:

Juxtaposition Transformation

Using your magazine shapes, create a clear sense of foreground, middle-ground and background

Cut your shapes from magazines in a way that gives them new meaning in the collage… no rectangle cutouts!

Create a scene that could not exist in real life.

SURREAL COLLAGE

SURREAL COLLAGELearning Objectives for the Surrealist Collage:

-Create a collage that uses the following creative strategies:Juxtaposition (comparing two things side by side that would normally not go together).Transformation (changing something from its original purpose to a new purpose in your collage.  Example: someone’s chin becomes a mountain in your collage.

-Using a compatible color palette (colors that cooperate with each other), create a clear sense of foreground, middle-ground and background

-Cut your shapes from magazines in a way that gives them new meaning in the collage… no rectangle cutouts! Experiment with a variety of cut edges to create visual pathways between photo sources.Create a scene that could not exist in real life.

SURREAL COLLAGE

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