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SURREALISM. Figurative composition with imagined environment. ASSIGNMENT:Surrealist Artwork using shading and imagined landscape. Apply skills learned from shading/value lesson to shade the mannequin(s) to create the illusion of 3-D form.
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SURREALISM Figurative composition with imagined environment
ASSIGNMENT:Surrealist Artwork using shading and imagined landscape • Apply skills learned from shading/value lesson to shade the mannequin(s) to create the illusion of 3-D form. • Must include at least one full figure (head to foot). Optional include more than one full or partial figure/mannequin • Include at least one object of your choice from direct observation. Draw object in correct proportional relationship to mannequin, shade and/or color it. • Create an imagined environment in the negative space (background). Must be creative and inventive in doing this but also need to refer to visual references for greater verisimilitude • Use entire page and arrange objects to make an dynamic and balanced composition, with a clear center of interest. Make at least 3 thumbnails before you begin.
Surrealist figure assignment cont’d. • Apply previous knowledge of foreground, middle ground and background as well as attention to pleasing distribution of positive and negative shapes. • Show evidence of care and effort to produce a creative, original work of art • Artwork clearly relflects the influence of Surrealism as an art movement based on visuals displayed and discussed in class • Artwork expresses a complete idea and is completed by due date: • Materials: Grey paper, 18 x 24 inches, graphite sticks, white pastel, colored pastels, drawing pencils, kneaded eraser
Surrealism • Surrealism as an art historical early 20th century movement and a term used to describe certain kinds of artwork in which artists combine normally unrelated objects and situations...(in which) scenes are often dreamlike or set in unnatural surroundings.(see Bonner,Gerald. Davis Pub. Worcester MA, 1997. p.615) Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
SOME SURREALIST STRATEGIES • Juxtaposition of unrelated objects • Disproportion of one object to another • Distortion or exaggeration of features such as melting clocks • Opposites included in same picture such as day and night, interior and exterior, back view conflated with front view • Unrealistic or illogical events depicted (figures floating in air, mountain suspended in sky) • Threatening or dreamlike atmosphere or mood conveyed through extreme perspective and/or lighting
De Chirico, La Fabrique des Reves LINK TO DE CHIRICO .https://www.google.com/search?q=surrealism+chirico&oe=utf-8&rls=com.yahoo:en-US:official&client=firefox&um=1 To explore his work further. Especially note the emotional Effect evoked by his backgrounds or settings. What is it that makes them so foreboding????
Link to video on Salvador Dali and Max Ernst:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUGwqm7Q-vo&feature=fvsr Max Ernst The Barbarians 1937 S. Dali, Lighted Giraffes, oil on canvas, 1936-7
David Salle, Contemporary American painter David Salle, Angels in the Rain, 1998
David Salle (born 1952) is an American painter and leading contemporary figurative artist. Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma. He earned a BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with John Baldessari. Salle’s work first came to public attention in New York in the early 1980s.His paintings comprise what appeared to be randomly juxtaposed images, or images painted on top of each other with deliberately ham-fisted paint handling. His subject matter tended toward the popular, the gratuitous, and the pornographic, and was combined in ways that appeared deliberately incomprehensible. His work was called "cynical", "calculating", and "cold”. In the next few years he and his contemporaries - termed “postmodern” - achieved a succes de scandale with their work. He also turned his hand to set and costume design, photography, and directing mainstream cinema.
