Surrealism• WHEN: 20th 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

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

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.

http://simplephotoshop.com/photoshop_tools/index.htm