Dali and Surrealism

Dali And Surrealism

What is Surrealism?

How would you describe Surrealism?  Assignment:   Describe one of the Surrealism artworks.The art work you choose must  have the evidences  of Transformation and Dislocation.

• What makes you intrigued or interested in the artwork?
• What is the main focus of the artwork (what’s it about)?
•  What imagery/objects do you see in the artwork?
• What qualities make the artwork different from what you’ve seen in art? 

Please research one Surrealism artwork create a Google slide . Please upload this assignment to Google Classroom. 

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Salvador's

• The persistence of Memory

• Swans Reflecting Elephant

• Metamorphosis of Narcissus

This painting is Dalí's interpretation of the Greek myth of Narcissus. Narcissus was a youth of great beauty who loved only himself and broke the hearts of many lovers. The gods punished him by letting him see his own reflection in a pool. He fell in love with it but discovered he could not embrace it and died of frustration. Relenting, the gods immortalized him as the narcissus (daffodil) flower. For this picture Dalí used a meticulous technique which he described as 'hand-painted color photography' to depict with the hallucinatory effect the transformation of Narcissus, kneeling in the pool, into the hand holding the egg and flower. Narcissus as he was before his transformation is seen posing in the background. The play with 'double images' sprang from Dalí's fascination with hallucination and delusion.

Frida Kahlo's

• The Two Fridas
• Self-Portrait with Thorn
• necklace and Hummingbird

Rene Magritte's

• The Treachery of Images
• Not to be Reproduced
• The False Mirror 

Rubric:You will create an original artwork inspired by Surrealism 

Tools:  you need to explore the following tools

Select:
Move tool
Rectangular Marquee tool
Lesso tool
Magic Wang

Enhance: 
Healing brush tool
Clone tool
Sponge tool

Eraser tool
Paint bucket
Brush tool
Pencil tool








Filter Gallery
Image: Distort
Enhance: Adjusting lighting
                 Adjust Color

Art concept: Overlapping creates space
1. You need to have a foreground,  middle ground, and background. 
2. Composition:

• The rule of third 
• The elements of art 
• The principle of design into your artwork. 

4. You need to adapt the symbolic concept of Surrealism
5. You need to at least 4 or more references from realistic photos or things you draw. A background image, several middle and foreground images. 

Final Artwork:
1. Title
2. Theme-  automatism: Thoughts without any stopping. You must involve a continuing process and transformation. It has the evidence of development/ movement.
o Time- past; present; ; future

o Mythology - legend; culture myth; story ; belief.
o Childhood - present - adult
o Nightmares -in between- Reality
o Dream- in between-Reality
o Transformation of place/time/object
o Symbolism/ Metaphors f a though or a belief  

3. Short description of the big idea
3. Assessment 
4. Critique 

Title: The lotus is where my heart is
Theme: Symbolism
Big Idea: Go back to where I was from, I have never left home. I carry it in my heart. 

The original reference

Student Artwork examples:

Assessment