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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.