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SURREALISM
And the artists:
RENE MAGRITTE and
Salvador Dali
• Surrealism is a 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempted to express the workings of the subconscious by using fantastic imagery and the juxtaposition of subject matter.
• Surrealism is a term that refers to a heightened sense of reality; translated from French, the term means: “over-realism”-- a vision of reality that supersedes the mundane!
• Dream-like
• Out of the
ordinary…
Rene Magritte was a Belgian
surrealist painter.
He painted in a realistic style. While the objects appear to the viewer to
be recognizable, the composition of those recognizable objects appears fantastic.
Magritte was deeply
interested in the
process of thought,
and his paintings
tend to raise the
awareness of the
viewer to their own
thought processes.
• More often than not, Magritte chose ordinary things from which to construct his works - trees, chairs, tables, doors, windows, shoes, shelves, landscapes, people. He wanted to be understood via these ordinary things, but he also wanted to shock and surprise his viewers.
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Dali was a leader of the
Surrealist Movement, but
begin to clash with the rest
of the Surrealist and was
expelled from the group in
1934. His most well known
painting is of the image of
melting clocks called,
“Persistence of Memory”
Persistence of Memory
Surrealistic Techniques - “How to make the
ordinary look extraordinary”
• Scale
• Levitation
• Juxtaposition
• Dislocation
• Transparency
• Transformation
SCALE
Changing an object’s
scale, or relative size.
SCALE
Personal Values
SCALE
SCALE
LEVITATION
Floating objects that
don’t normally float
LEVITATION
LEVITATION
JUXTAPOSITION
Joining two images
together in impossible
combinations
JUXTAPOSITION
JUXTAPOSITION
DISLOCATION
Taking an object from its usual
environment and placing it in
an unfamiliar one
DISLOCATION
DISLOCATION
TRANSPARENCY
Making objects transparent that
are not usually transparent
TRANSPARENCY
TRANSPARENCY
TRANSFORMATION
Changing objects in
unusual way
TRANSFORMATION
TRANSFORMATION
Use the ideas of Surrealism to create a
unique perspective drawing.
Linear Perspective
Linear Perspective is based on the idea that
receding lines will meet at a common point on
the horizon
The concept of perspective was developed
during the Italian Renaissance
Artists became interested in
depicting the natural world around
them.
The Renaissance lasted from c1400
to c1600
Before the
Renaissance, in the
Middle Ages, most
paintings depicted
heavenly figures
worshipping Christ.
The backgrounds in
these paintings was
usually gold
The Renaissance marked a huge leap forward in
artists ability to show naturalism and depth in
paintings and sculpture.
M. C. Escher was a Dutch artist who loved to
play with the theory of linear perspective in
order to create visual puzzles.
Perspective can be drawn from
various points of view.
Normal Perspective Scene
Surreal Perspectives
Sale’s Surreal Perspective
Drawings
Today’s Activity: Draw boxes in 1 point perspective
2 point perspective boxes
(practice sheets will be a grade)
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