COLLABORATIVE PROJECT FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS surrealistic ME SELF PORTRAIT COLLABORATIVE PROJECT FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PROJECT DEADLINE APRIL 15, 2012 BOOK AVAILABLE APRIL 2012

The project Collaborative project for high school students selected images will be made into a book all proceeds support a school for aids orphans

SURREALISM WHAT IS IT?

Surrealism - defined :expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention. :a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or non-rational significance of imagery :a movement in art and literature in the 1920s, which developed especially from dada, characterized by the evocative juxtaposition of incongruous images in order to include unconscious and dream elements : the principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations

characteristics of surrealism Influence of Freud: Dreams and subconscious impossible scale reversal of natural laws double (or more) images juxtaposition

WHAT ARE SOME DREAMS YOU’VE HAD? DID THEY MAKE SENSE? WHAT DO DREAMS MEAN? WHAT ARE SOME DREAMS YOU’VE HAD? DID THEY MAKE SENSE? DID IT SEEM LIKE REALITY, OR MORE SURREAL?

Operational techniques TO CREATE SURREALISM Magnification - THE ‘RECONSTRUCTION’ OF A SUBJECT ON A MUCH LARGER SCALE THAN THAT OF THE ORIGINAL. minification - SOMETHING IS MADE TO APPEAR SMALLER THAN EXPECTED multiplicatioN - REPEATING IMAGES OR FORMS WITHIN A COMPOSITION

MAGNIFICATION MINNIFICATION MULTIPLICATION

Operational techniques TO CREATE SURREALISM SUBSTITUTION - CHANGING THE ORIGINAL QUALITIES OF OBJECTS AND SURFACES: A ‘SOFT’ TELEPHONE, A ‘WOODEN’ LIGHTBULB, ETC. REVERSALS - REVERSING COLOR, PERSPECTIVE, FUNCTIONS, RELATIVE SIZES, ETC., REVERSING THE LAWS OF NATURE... FRAGMENTATION - SPLITTING OR FRAGMENTING OBJECTS OR IMAGES.

REVERSAL SUBSTITUTION REVERSAL FRAGMENTATION

Operational techniques TO CREATE SURREALISM PARTIAL DELINEATION - AN OBJECT IN A HALF FINISHED STATE DISTORTION - CHANGING AN OBJECT OR IMAGE BY DEFORMATION, DISTORTION, OR PROGRESSIVE STATES OF DEGRADATION. AN OBJECT BURNED, DISSOLVED, STRETCHED, MELTED, ETC. DISGUISING - THE USE OF LATENT OR HIDDEN IMAGES; OBSCURING THE QUALITIES OF AN OBJECT BY WRAPPING, MASKING, OR CAMOUFLAGING

DISTORTION DISGUISING PARTIAL DELINEATION

Operational techniques TO CREATE SURREALISM METAMORPHOSIS - SOMETHING IN A PROGRESSIVE STATE OF CHANGE SOFT FOCUS - CHANGING FOCUS OF ALL OR PARTS OF AN IMAGE; BLURRED EDGES OR CONTOUR LINES. AN IMAGE BLURRED BY MOVEMENT OR PANNING TRANSFERENCE - THE INTRUSION OF AN OBJECT OR ELEMENT INTO A SPACE OR ENVIRONMENT NOT NORMALLY ITS OWN

TRANSFERENCE SOFT FOCUS METAMORPHOSIS

Operational techniques TO CREATE SURREALISM COLLAPSING VOLUME - RENDERING THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS TO SEEM FLAT OR TRANSPARENT...OR VICE VERSA ANIMATION - INANIMATE OBJECTS MADE TO ‘COME TO LIFE’; INORGANIC SUBJECTS CAN BE GIVEN HUMAN QUALITIES

COLLAPSING VOLUME ANIMATION

Operational techniques TO CREATE SURREALISM PROGRESSIVE IMAGE BREAKDOWN - SUBJECTING AN IMAGE TO TREATMENT THAT TENDS TO DETERIORATE, OBSCURE, OR PROGRESSIVELY BREAK IT DOWN TO SIMPLE SHAPES AND PATTERNS POSITIVE-NEGATIVE REVERSAL - USING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE, RATHER THAN THE POSITIVE (OR BOTH) IN A COMPOSITION

Surrealistic artists André Breton Max Ernst Salvador Dalí Roberto Matta Rene Magritte Man Ray

max ernst

salvador dali

rene magritte

rene magritte

man ray

man ray

man ray

WHAT WILL YOU DO????