1. Surrealism
Barnett, J

2. Surrealism
What is it?
Avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.
Identifying Characteristics
juxtaposition -  the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect
Artists in the Movement
Frida Kahlo
Salvador Dali
Marcel Duchamp
Vladimir Kush

3. The Wounded Deer – Frida Kahlo

4. Girl on Beach Throwing A Rock - Picasso

5. Persistence of Memory - Dali

6. Artists Focus: Vladimir Kush
Who is he?
Vladimir entered the Moscow Higher Art and Craft School at age 17, but a year later he was conscripted. After six months of military training the unit commander thought it more appropriate to employ him exclusively for peaceful purposes, namely, painting propagandistic posters. Etc. Etc.
Aesthetic
Multi Media
Otherworldly dreamlike concepts
Surreal

10. Questions from teacher to students?
What I want students to know? Why?
How to identify the Period of a work of art based on the aesthetic characteristics of the artwork.
By learning how to DESCRIBE, ANALYZE, INTERPRET, and JUDGE the aesthetic characteristics of an artwork they will be able to more fully understand artworks in general, critically think about art, and become more proficient in the rendering of their art activity.
What type of activity will I have them do?
Research the “Focus Artist”
Art Activity: Mixed Media Macro drawing