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SURREALISM

SURREALISM. a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images. Creative Strategies Used in Surrealism.

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SURREALISM

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  1. SURREALISM a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

  2. Creative Strategies Used in Surrealism JUXTAPOSITION : the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. TRANSFORMATION: The act of changing in form ,shape or appearance. Turning something familiar into unusual or strange.

  3. Some important Surrealist Artists Salvador Dali Rene Magritte Dorthea Tanning Leonora Carrington

  4. Salvador Dali GeopoliticusGoodness, Truth and Beauty

  5. Galatea of the Sphere

  6. Rene Magritte Siren Le thérapeute

  7. The Lovers

  8. The Listening Room

  9. KAY SAGE I Saw Three Cities

  10. The Gift

  11. Dorthea Tanning Family Portrait

  12. Leonora Carrington

  13. SURREAL COLLAGE • Create a collage that uses the following creative strategies: • Juxtaposition • Transformation • Using your magazine shapes, create a clear sense of foreground, middle-ground and background • Cut your shapes from magazines in a way that gives them new meaning in the collage… no rectangle cutouts! • Create a scene that could not exist in real life.

  14. SURREAL COLLAGE • Learning Objectives for the Surrealist Collage: • -Create a collage that uses the following creative strategies: • Juxtaposition (comparing two things side by side that would normally not go together). • Transformation (changing something from its original purpose to a new purpose in your collage.  Example: someone’s chin becomes a mountain in your collage. • -Using a compatible color palette (colors that cooperate with each other), create a clear sense of foreground, middle-ground and background • -Cut your shapes from magazines in a way that gives them new meaning in the collage… no rectangle cutouts! Experiment with a variety of cut edges to create visual pathways between photo sources. • Create a scene that could not exist in real life.

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