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Surrealism Study Guide

Surrealism Study Guide. How to critique. Step 1 : Description - Make a visual inventory. Describe exactly what you see. Step 2 : Analysis - Describe how the work is organized as a complete composition. Not “it’s complete or it’s not complete. . .”

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Surrealism Study Guide

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  1. Surrealism Study Guide

  2. How to critique • Step 1 : Description - Make a visual inventory. Describe exactly what you see. • Step 2 : Analysis - Describe how the work is organized as a complete composition. Not “it’s complete or it’s not complete. . .” • Step 3 : Interpretation - What is happening? Base on what you see. What do you think the artist trying to communicate? • Step 4 : Judgement- Present your opinion of the work’s success or failure & EXPLAIN why.

  3. Magritte ~ “The Human Condition”

  4. Giger, Pilot in cockpit I

  5. 6 Surrealistic Techniques I will show you an image, you tell me what it represents from these terms. The images today will NOT be on the test, but VERY obvious & similar. Scale: changing an object’s scale or size Levitation: floating objects that don’t normally float Juxtaposition: joining 2 images together in impossible combos Dislocation: taking an object from its usual environment & placing in an unfamiliar one. Transparency: making objects transparent that are not usually transparent. Transformation: changing objects in an unusual way.

  6. Name at least one thing that Surrealism embodies: • No intention of making the work logically comprehensible. (making sense) • Was deeply influenced by the psychologist theories of Freud. • Fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind. (dreams or nightmares) • Attracted many members of the Dada movement.

  7. S. Dali – The Persistence of Memory

  8. R.Steadman~ “Run over the bull”

  9. Giger, Derelict I

  10. M.C. Escher- Relativity

  11. S. Dali – The three sphinxes

  12. • A representation of human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship, described as "biomechanical” or biomechanics. Created by. . . . .who? • Escher explored the concept of representing infinity on a two-dimensional plane. • Steadman had a long working partnership with the American journalist Hunter S. Thompson. In his caricatures , he is known as : ________ & ____________.

  13. Magritte ~ “Golconde”

  14. 2 impossible objects : the Necker cubeand the Penrose triangle.

  15. M.C. Escher ~ “Another World”

  16. R.Steadman – Lizard Lounge

  17. You will have 1 or 2 pieces you have NOT seen that you will critique. EXPLAIN, don’t tell me “I don’t like it” & “it looks complete & stuff” 2 possible bonus. You will need to know the answer AND why to get full credit. (study your other notes, that is, if you wrote it down).

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