SURREALIST COLLAGE

WHAT IS SURREALISM?

• Art movement in the 1920’s• Made art about dreams and fantasy• Nonsense scenes that look “real”• Created strange creatures from everyday

objects• Allowed the subconscious mind to express

itself

Salvador Dali• He painted like a master but didn’t use real life

subjects• He did film, photography, and sculpture but best

known for his painting• Big imagination and attention grabbing subjects• Joined the Surrealist movement in 1930• Lived in Spain until 1940 then moved to US

Persistence of Memory, 1931 Salvador Dali

The Elephants 1948 Salvador Dali

Sleep 1937 Salvador Dali

What is Collage?

• Artwork that is made from collecting images or objects then assembling them to make a whole new piece of art

Surrealist Collage• Surrealists thought

making collage art would…

• Show how the subconscious

mind works

• Make people think about dreams and fantasies as art

• Help people see relationships between things that don’t normally go together

The Beautiful Girl by Hannah Hoch

Surrealism Buzz Words

Juxtaposition: pairing things that don’t normally go together

Dislocation: when objects are placed where they shouldn’t be

Transformation: turning something familiar into something unusual and strange

Scale: the size that something normally is in its environment

Learning Target

I can create a collage inspired by the ideas of Surrealism using the elements and principles of color, space, shape, variety, and scale.