1. 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

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

3. SURREALISM
WHAT IS IT?

4. 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

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

6. 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?

8. 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

9. MAGNIFICATION
MINNIFICATION
MULTIPLICATION

10. 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.

11. REVERSAL
SUBSTITUTION
REVERSAL
FRAGMENTATION

12. 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

13. DISTORTION
DISGUISING
PARTIAL DELINEATION

14. 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

15. TRANSFERENCE
SOFT FOCUS
METAMORPHOSIS

16. 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

17. COLLAPSING VOLUME
ANIMATION

18. 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

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

20. max ernst

21. salvador dali

22. rene magritte

23. rene magritte

24. man ray

25. man ray

26. man ray

27. WHAT WILL YOU DO????