Student Examples

Students will randomly draw three nouns of which they must incorporate into a single image. Within the image, they must also include one photo that they have taken this year.

Wednesday Videos on Surrealism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOoFCV4gAP0

Get Surreal with Salvador Dali part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTn1hdmrb9E

part 2

After videos, answer in your notebook: List one Surrealist of whom you like their work. (You may want to google other surrealism artwork.) Explain why you chose this artist.

Surrealism

Influenced by the theories of the pioneer of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (German, 1856-1939), the images found in surrealist works are as confusing and startling as those of dreams. Surrealist works can have a realistic, though irrational style, precisely describing dreamlike fantasies, as in the works of René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967), Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1988), Yves Tanguy (French, 1900-1955), and Alfred Pellan (Canadian, 1906-1988). These artists were partly inspired by Symbolism, and partly the Metaphysical Painting of Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888-1978). Or, it could have a more abstract style, as in the works of Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983), Max Ernst (German, 1891-1976), and André Masson (French, 1896-1987), who invented spontaneous techniques, modeled upon the psychotherapeutic procedure of "free association" as a means to eliminate conscious control in order to express the workings of the unconscious mind, such as exquisite corpse.











Close Reading:
Why did she use her face on the deer?
What else do you notice in the painting?
What is the significance of the broken branch?

Symmetrical or Not

Students will have a photo taken of them, and then they will duplicate one side of their face. We will see how symmetrical we actually are.