ArtTerm 4Year 8

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Seeing is Believing

A Trick Of The Eye: Optical ExperimentsEveryone has a blind spot - but usually your brain and other eye fill in the gaps so you don’t notice. Look at these two marks – one is a dot the other a cross. Close your right eye, while using your left eye to look at the cross. As you move this page closer to your face and away again, you will notice the dot will momentarily disappear.

Picture A Picture B

Can you draw your own version of this task? The length of the lines for both pictures is exactly the same. However the ends of the line in picture A are different and the shape around the outside of Picture B is different giving a different illusion.

Picture A

Picture B

What is Surrealism?

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Surrealism began as a ____________ movement that said the way to find _________in the world was through the subconscious mind and__________, rather than through logical thought. The ___________ included many artists, ________, and writers who expressed their _________ in their work.

Word Bank

Philosophical dreams poets

Truth movement theories

This painting was done by a very famous artist called Salvador Dali. He used ‘Surrealism’ to paint things in a way that made the unreal, seem more real. This painting is called the ‘Persistence of memory’. Salvador Dali strove to shock people, not only through his art. The melting clocks portray the idea that time is not always steady.

List what you see in this painting:

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These surreal pictures have combined 2 different items, what are they: _____________________________________________

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TASK 1 – This is your first chance to have a go at creating a surreal type artwork.

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This style of art is sometimes called ‘Random Juxtaposition’ which forces the viewer to create links between formerly unrelated objects.

This task will be marked and recorded by your teacher.

Choose ONE item for each category/element listed below- try to go with your first instinct.

Gather images from colour prints, magazines or newspapers, cut them out and arrange on a piece of paper until you reach a balanced composition that pleases you. Paste your images down and add extra details in ink, paint or collaged blocks of colour.

Your image MUST tell a story that you can explain (not just be random pictures stuck down)

Share your work with a friend and ask them to share the story it tells them!

You will need: Magazines and newspapers, scissors, glue, lead pencil, coloured paper, coloured pencils

Construct your Surrealist collage HERE:

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Write the story that it tells HERE:

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The False Mirror – Rene Magritte (Belgian, 1898–1967)

In Magritte’s painting, The False Mirror, a huge human eye completely covers the canvas.

The image jolts the viewer by removing the eye from its usual context, presenting it without the face to which it belongs. It further disrupts expectation by placing a circular sky inside the otherwise ordinary oculus. Sometimes called “magical realism,” such juxtaposition of normally unrelated objects within a seemingly incongruous context is characteristic of much of Magritte’s oeuvre. For Magritte and Surrealists working in a similar mode, these surprising, even bizarre combinations were considered the products of their unconscious minds. By visualizing them, the artists believed, they might also touch the unconscious minds of their viewers.

YOUR TASK – To create your own False mirror image on the eye below. The image MUST contain colour and show surrealist techniques of combining reality and fantasy.

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Do this task below. Choose 5 different colours to use alternately for each square.

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Alice in Wonderland8

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?""That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."

"I don't much care where –""Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”

“Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”

Using Alice as the centre, as a class create a mind map of everything that you know about the book or movie of ‘Alice in Wonderland’

Alice in Wonderland – Pie Corbett Style

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It was a warm summer day and Alice was reading a book. Suddenly, a little White Rabbit ran in front of her shouting, "On dear, oh dear, I'm late."

The Rabbit pulled a watch out of his pocket to check the time. He shook his head, then disappeared down a rabbit's hole. Alice ran to the rabbit's hole and peeped through the entrance.

Alice tumbled down and down and down until finally she landed in a long hallway with a tiny door at the end. "I'm far too big to fit through such a little door. On a three- legged table, she found a green bottle that said "DRINK ME". So Alice drank it.

Alice shrank and shrank until she was no bigger than a doll. She opened the door and quickly ran through it.

"Oh, I'll never get back to the right size," Alice cried. She went looking for help.

Soon, she saw a green caterpillar dressed in a pink jacket. He was sitting on the top of a large mushroom, "One side makes you big, the other side makes you small," "One side of what?" asked Alice

"The mushroom, silly," he answered. “Alice ate a piece of the mushroom. Thank goodness, I'm growing!" she cried, "But which way do I go now?"

"That path leads to the Mad Hatter’s tea party” said a Cheshire cat. Alice walked down the path, "How lovely! A tea party"

"There's no room for you!" shouted the Mad Hatter as she arrived, but Alice ignored them and sat down anyway to have a cup of tea.

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Later Alice continued her walk. She found herself in the middle of a field where the Queen of Hearts was playing croquet. "Have you ever played croquet?" the Queen asked Alice. "Yes," Alice answered. "But I've never used a flamingo or a hedgehog." "You will play with me !" ordered the Queen. "And let me win or I'll chop off your head!" Alice wasn’t very good at croquet. "Off with her head!" cried the Queen.

Just then Alice felt someone touch her shoulder, "Wake up. You've been sleeping" said her sister

"I had a strange dream," said Alice. She told her sister about the White Rabbit, the mad tea party, the Queen of Hearts. And as she stretched, Alice saw a little White Rabbit with pink eyes scurry behind a tree.

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