Art Movements Minilesson: Surrealism

Art Movement Trio Choice: Surrealism

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Art Movement Trio Choice: Surrealism

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Art Movement 
Harmonica 
Reminder
The Assignment 
  • The _____ of the Art Movement
  • The _____ ______ of the Art Movement
  • ___________ of the Art Movement (that you have implemented in your drawing)
  • Examples of (at least 2) ______ famous in that Art Movement
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
artists
Claude Monet
time period
impressionism
name
Characteristics 
pop art
Bright Colours 
visible brushstrokes 
Andy Warhol
1960s
19th Century

Slide 2 - Drag question

Art Movement: Surrealism

Trio Choice:
This lesson you will choose 1 of 3 artists from Surrealism 

Each have their own surrealist style, you will apply your chosen style on your own drawing afterwards

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René Magritte

  • Belgian Surrealist painter
  • Depicting ordinary objects in unusual contexts
  • Interested to learn more?

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MC Escher

  • Dutch surrealist graphic artist
  • Mathematics
  • Interested to learn more?

Slide 5 - Slide

Salvador Dalí

  • Spanish Surrealist Artist 
  • Striking and Bizarre images
  • Interested to learn more?

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The exercise:
             When looking at the video,                 pay attention to the following:
  • The artists' relation to surrealism
  • The artists' technique/ style
  • The artists' artworks

I have prepared an exercise for each of the videos, be prepared to answer!

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Choose your artist:
MC Escher
René Magritte 
Salvador Dalí

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For those who chose MC Escher: connect the right concepts/ image
MC Escher the late Dutch master of lithographs and woodcuts, filled his work with mindbending _________ and impossible ________ _________ remarkably he did it all by hand.
Escher is perhaps most famous for his ______ _________ that show seemingly logical scenes that are actually _________. But he's also known for his ______ _______ _____ of _______ and _______. 
So you see you almost don't see the transformation so he is ________ but he is tessellating with ______ and _______ objects. And what does the tessellation mean? The way we have the ________ _______, but here how they fit so perfectly into each other like puzzle pieces. 
optical Illusions
illusions
geometric patterns
impossible
animals
intricate pattern work 
objects
repetative patterns
tessellating
animate
inanimate

Slide 9 - Drag question

After this video, what can you explain about the art of MC Escher?

Slide 10 - Open question

For those who chose Dalí: connect the right concepts/ image 
Surrealism means _______ ________ which is very different from a realism meaning ____ _______. Surrealists seek to represent an _______ _______ one that isn't excesible by our __________. 
They believed that this alternate reality could be observed by accessing our ____________ through _______ and ____________.
This explains why Dalí would often call his paintings ________ _________ _________ and The Persistence of Memory is definitely one of them. 
Through dreams we could have access to an alternative way of seeing our ________ one that isn't bound to our necessesity of coherent _______ and ______ __________. 
subconsciousness
universe
beyond realism
hallucinations
hand-painted dream photographs
not real
consciousness
dreams
alternate reality
memory
time-perception

Slide 11 - Drag question

After this video, what can you explain about the art of Salvador Dalí?

Slide 12 - Open question

For those who chose Magritte: connect the right concepts/image
Magritte is all about making _______ that make you ______ _____ _______. He's the artist who looks at ______ ______ but in these _________ ways.
In 1927 Magritte joined ___________ ___________ and other artists in Paris, they became known as the _________ creating ________ often ___________ imagery. 
Challenging the viewers _______ of _______ would become Magritte's _________. (Example 'The False Mirror')
André Breton
pictures
perception 
think about pictures 
hallmark
Salvador Dalí
reality
ordinary objects 
Surrealists
extraordinary
unexpected
dreamlike

Slide 13 - Drag question

After this video, what can you explain about the art of René Magritte?

Slide 14 - Open question

Let's apply

After you've discovered more about your chosen artist, apply his art style to your third drawing.

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To Do at Home: Art Movement Info
  • Fill Out the Information Sheet 
  • Use different sources, see examples on                    Assignment Sheet p. 1  (QR Codes)
  • Bring to next Class!

Next Up: CLEAN UP

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Clean - Up task
  • Make sure your materials are back in the right place
  • Clean your table
  • Clean under your table
  • STAY AT YOUR TABLE I'll come check
  • If sufficient you may leave 

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