Surrealism WHEN: 20 th century WHERE: Europe WHAT: fantasy - dreams - subconscious - allow your subconscious mind to take over in your art. something extraordinary
What does it all mean? WHY MELTING CLOCKS? Dali once said that the mind and time are like "cheese" that are full of holes (unreliable). Meaning memory can be deceiving. * He was also a philosopher - interested in psychology Shows an interpretation of dreams, reality, time, birth, death Ants attacking clock = anxiety associated with time. Dali would often make up ridiculous explanations for his paintings to purposely mislead people (opened the doors for multiple interpretations)
Salvador Dali Spanish painter. Very eccentric and bizarre. Depicted highly imaginative scenes, Look at his book on the board
Rene Magritte Belgian painter; realistic style. The objects appear to be recognizable, but it is presented in a fantastical way. What parts are real and which are imaginary?
Surrealistic Techniques - “Ways to make the ordinary look extraordinary” Scale Levitation Juxtaposition Dislocation Transparency Transformation
SCALE Changing an object’s scale, or relative size.
LEVITATION: floating objects that don’t normally
JUXTAPOSITION : joining things together abnormally
DISLOCATION: Taking an object from its usual environment and placing it in an unfamiliar one
TRANSPARENCY Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent
TRANSFORMATION Changing objects in unusual way
Think about YOUR dreams…. Have you ever dreamt about a person or place, but in your dream they looked different? Have you ever dreamt you were floating? Were you huge? Were you tiny? Have you ever dreamt you had superpowers like you could fly, swim underwater, walk on the moon…?
When graphic artists get bored… Surreal images created by combing multiple images digitally
personification
Personification: Combine 3 different images into 1
Fantasy landscape
Enhance faces
Avatar yourself
Change sizes (proportion)
Design a new product
New product, change the marketing
Unusual placement
twisted
humorous
Fantasy / futuristic
Unusual
Make a statement about a cause
What could this be a statement about?
transparency
Bring things to life!
Create a hybrid
Think about what YOU will illustrate: Fantasy landscape Convey a message / support a cause Hybrid animal Humorous Design a new product (futuristic) Change the marketing of a product
Adobe Photoshop Tutorial Now you will learn how to use a few basic tools like how to cut and paste, resize, and organize the layers. You are also free to experiment with the different artistic filters and styles.