1. Surrealism & Photomontage
“The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality.” – Jerry Uelsmann

2. What is Surrealism?

3. Surrealism is aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control.
How do you create without making a conscious decision???
You can pull from old dreams/nightmares
You can pull from old memories
You can cheat and make something up
Express your inner artist and have fun!

4. Asian Contemporary Art Yang Yongliang - Viewing of the Tide 2008

5. Yang Yongliang’s photo collages combine the visual language of premodern landscape painting with digital techniques to engender moments of shock and surprise.

6. Surrealism & Photography
Jerry Uelsmann
Salvador Dali

7. Symbolism – How to use it?
An artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind.
Symbolist painters wanted their pictures to depict a meaning beyond just the figures they drew. 
The gown forms a powerful symbol of a person changing their identity as well as the hope of the future. 

8. Step 1 – Capturing your subject
Shoot a picture of a person you admire with exceptional lighting.
Be sure to pose your subject well and take several different poses so you have several good shots to choose from.

9. Step 2 – Capturing 7-10 background/foreground images
Landscapes
Walls
Textures
Sky
Objects such as:
Trees/branches
Flowers
Or anything with interesting characteristics
You will need 7-10 layers in Photoshop

10. Step 3 – Adding Painting Techniques using Photoshop
You will learn how to paint onto your photomontage with the amazing paint palette in Photoshop.
You are required to have some painting techniques added to your photomontage.

11. Step 4 – Options Using Pexels https://www.pexels.com/search/texture/
For free textures
Use text in your composition
You can use any of the skills & tools you’ve learned so far

12. Final Project – this will be split into 3 panels and stand upright

13. Resources Jerry Uelsmann http://www.uelsmann.net/# Jenya Vyguzov
Jenya Vyguzov
History of Surrealism in Art – this has links to the original Surrealists

14. 3 Panels like a Chinese Scroll

15. Getting Painterly

16. Adding Text

17. Jerry Uelsmann Style

18. Salvador Dali Style

19. Silhouettes & Cut Outs

20. The Strange & Unusual