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Sketchbook HW- SURREAL Hand Study

Sketchbook HW- SURREAL Hand Study. Project Goal. Create a drawing composition of a realistic hand rendered in grayscale with drawing pencils. There must be a creative or surreal component to the artwork. Your composition must include as much of one hand as possible. What is Surrealism?.

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Sketchbook HW- SURREAL Hand Study

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  1. Sketchbook HW- SURREAL Hand Study

  2. Project Goal • Create a drawing composition of a realistic hand rendered in grayscale with drawing pencils. There must be a creative or surreal component to the artwork. Your composition must include as much of one hand as possible.

  3. What is Surrealism? • It is a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that features the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, and non sequitur (subject matter defies logic). • Artists create scenarios that aren’t realistic, or are exaggerated in some way

  4. Famous Surrealists • Hieronymus Bosch • 15th century Dutch painter • Known as the “Pre-Surrealism Surrealist,” 400 years before the movement started! • Used fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives The Garden of Earthly Delights, c.1500

  5. Famous Surrealists • Hieronymus Bosch • The vivid imagery and bizarre creatures in this paintings brought about theories of heresy or witchcraft. Current evidence indicates that he used abstract symbolism to depict the temptation of evils of man rather than the occult.  Close-up Detail of The Garden of Earthly Delights, c.1500

  6. Famous Surrealists • Salvador Dali • 20th century Spanish painter • Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. Persistence of Memory, 1931

  7. Famous Surrealists • Salvador Dali The Face of War, 1940-41 Sleep, 1937

  8. Famous Surrealists • Rene Magritte • 20th century Belgian painter • He often switched his foreground and background, and sometimes included sentences under objects he painted that say they are something else • Example: “This is not a pipe” in the painting to the right The Treachery of Images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), 1929

  9. Famous Surrealists • Rene Magritte The Cicerone, 1947 The Therapist, 1937

  10. Famous Surrealists • Rene Magritte • Inspired a modern-day Volkswagon ad

  11. Famous Surrealists • Vladimir Kush • Late 20th century Russian painter and sculptor • Influenced by Salvador Dalí and Hieronymus Bosch • Kush himself refers to his surrealist style as "metaphorical realism“ • Ex. “African Sonata” symbolizes the trumpeting of elephants African Sonata

  12. Famous Surrealists • Vladimir Kush Departure of the Winged Ship Sunrise by the Ocean

  13. Project Requirements • Come up with a surreal or creative concept • Sketch the subject matter • Render the subject matter • Add detail / visual texture • Clean up the background

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