2 Point Perspective Surrealism Creating Atypical Cities What
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2 Point Perspective & Surrealism Creating Atypical Cities
What does SURREALISM mean?
SURREALISM Surrealism
Surrealism Facts at a Glance: • Dreamlike—having qualities associated with surrealism • i. e. bizarre landscapes & distorted objects • Started by Andre Breton in 1920 • Main Themes: • socialism • dreams and the subconscious • symbolism • unconscious worlds • Arcimboldo—remember him? Summer 1573 The Persistence of Memory by Dali
• Surrealism is an invented word "sur" means beyond or farther than, so "surreal" means to go beyond real. • Surrealism tried to meld the conscious and the unconscious, the world of dreams and fantasy along with reality so that the line between these ideas was completely blurred. • wanted to shock their viewers with the unexpected and make people think in new ways.
Surrealist Artists: • • Max Ernst Salvador Dali Rene Magritte Jean Arp Joan Miro Man Ray M. C. Escher
Surrealistic Techniques “How to make the ordinary look extraordinary” • • • Scale Levitation Juxtaposition Dislocation Transparency Transformation
SCALE Changing an object’s scale, or relative size. We talk about this in relation to other objects.
SCALE
LEVITATION Floating objects that don’t normally float
LEVITATION
JUXTAPOSITION Joining two images together in impossible combinations
DISLOCATION Taking an object from its usual environment and placing it in an unfamiliar one
DISLOCATION
TRANSPARENCY Making objects transparent that are not usually transparent
TRANSPARENCY
TRANSFORMATION Changing objects in unusual way
TRANSFORMATION
Girogio de Chirco Facts at a Glance: Lives: 1888 -1978 Nationality: Italian Art Media: Painting Art Movement: presurrealist/Surrealism Legacy: strongly influenced the surrealist movement The Archaeologists (detail), 1968, Oil on canvas
The Disquieting Muses by Giorgio de Chirico. Oil on canvas, 1947, University of Iowa Museum of Art. Doppio Sogno di Primavera (The Double Dream of Spring) 1915, oil on canvas, 57 x 54 cm
René Magritte Facts at a Glance: Lived: 1898 -1967 Nationality: Belgian Art Media: Painter Movement: Surrealism Most Notable: know for witty and thought-provoking imagery La Durée poignardée (Time Transfixed) 1938, Art Institute of Chicago
Salvador Dalí Facts at a Glance: Lived: 1904 -1989 Nationality: Spanish Art Media: Painting, Drawing, Photography, Sculpture, Writing, Film Training: San Fernando School of Fine Arts, Madrid Movement: Cubism, Dada, Surrealism Destino a film by Dalí & Walt Disney The Skull of Zurbaran 1956
Vladimir Kush “His paintings have something of a visionary mystical quality and many of them feature recurrent themes like butterflies, sailing ships, fruits and other natural forms, and visions within cloud formations. ” “Kush calls his work metaphorical realism. ”
Vladimir Kush How are perspective and surrealism related in this work? What feelings or emotions does this work evoke? Why do you think the artist combined these elements? Artist Website
Jacek Yerka Interesting Fact— pressured by professors to study realism and did not object Subject Matter: -odd beasts -whimsical landscapes incorporating extraordinary architecture -imagery gleamed from his childhood, such as his grandmothers kitchen Artist Website
His bright, sharpfocused acrylics make outside in, up down, and near far. Walls and doors exchange places with trees and sky. Cities float and blow away as they age. Sea and sand change roles, household objects become towns, buildings become land, land becomes animals, animals become mountains and islands. Hidden worlds wait around every corner and magic seeps through every door.
THINK…. 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 could fly, swim underwater, walk on the moon…
Project Guidelines • Create a surrealist fantasy city • Bring in one object from home to inspire your city • Have references for your city this could be: real estate pictures from the newspaper, buildings in magazines, architect books, or construction photos (I will be providing some of these but feel free to bring things in!) • Can be indoor outdoor
Project Guidelines • Sketch out 4 ideas on how to create your project • Create a surrealist fantasy city using twopoint perspective! (use methods like scale, levitation, juxtaposition, dislocation, transparency, transformation) • Sketch out in pencil first. • Add forms and details to create your city. • Paint with watercolor to finish your city.
Student Examples
Resources • • surrealist website atypical cities Examples Vladimir Kush
- 2 point perspective box
- Surrealism 2 point perspective
- Surrealism 2 point perspective
- 1 point perspective buildings
- Atypical bacteria
- Nodular melanoma
- Typical vs atypical chest pain
- Etiologic agent
- Atypical bacteria
- Npi compliance
- Atypical psychology definition
- Atypicalfilms
- Inisotol
- Atypical workers
- Neuroleptic drug
- Suprasternal notch
- Type of pneumonia
- Difference between typical and atypical pneumonia
- Pneumonia classification
- Atypical odontalgia
- Atypical behavior
- Benign febrile convulsion
- An atypical accumulation of fluid in the interstitial space
- An atypical accumulation of fluid in the interstitial space
- Atypical cartilaginous tumor
- Silo perspective vs business process perspective
- Two point perspective room
- 2 point perspective drawing city
- Nionicle
- One point perspective vocabulary
- What is 1 point perspective
- 1 point perspective street view
- One point perspective drawing
- One point perspective vocabulary
- One point perspective names