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Surrealism WHEN: 20 th century WHERE: Europe WHAT: fantasy - dreams - subconscious - allow your subconscious mind to take over in your art. something extraordinary
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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)
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Salvador Dali Spanish painter. Very eccentric and bizarre. Depicted highly imaginative scenes, Look at his book on the board
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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?
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Surrealistic Techniques - “Ways to make the ordinary look extraordinary” Scale Levitation Juxtaposition Dislocation Transparency Transformation
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SCALE Changing an object’s scale, or relative size.
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LEVITATION: floating objects that don’t normally
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JUXTAPOSITION : joining things together abnormally
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DISLOCATION: Taking an object from its usual environment and placing it in an unfamiliar one
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TRANSPARENCY Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent
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TRANSFORMATION Changing objects in unusual way
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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…?
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When graphic artists get bored… Surreal images created by combing multiple images digitally
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personification
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Personification: Combine 3 different images into 1
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Fantasy landscape
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Enhance faces
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Avatar yourself
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Change sizes (proportion)
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Design a new product
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New product, change the marketing
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Unusual placement
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twisted
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humorous
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Fantasy / futuristic
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Unusual
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Make a statement about a cause
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What could this be a statement about?
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transparency
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Bring things to life!
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Create a hybrid
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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
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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. http://simplephotoshop.com/photoshop_tools/index.htm
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