Surrealism

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Surrealism

• WHEN 20th 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
ordinarylook extraordinary

• Scale
• Levitation
• Juxtaposition
• Dislocation
• Transparency
• Transformation

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SCALE Changing an objects scale, or relative
size.
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LEVITATION floating objects that dont 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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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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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.h
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