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1. Surrealism:

2. What is Surrealism Art?
• Art that explores the inner mind
and your dreams
• Art that very imaginative
• Art that is kinda different!!
Let’s look at some examples …

6. As you can see …
Surrealism can be many different things

7. Surrealism can be …
•A piece of art that
shocks you because it
looks so different than
what we are used to

8. Surrealism can be …
•Everyday objects like
people can have a
strange size, color, or
shape

9. Surrealism can be …
•Anything your
imagination can
dream up!

10. Surrealism can be …
•Very detailed
and very colorful

11. How did Surrealism
happen?
•Artists were
responding effects of
industrialization/urban
ization and to the
horror of World War I

12. How did Surrealism
happen?
•They were an
expression of the
chaos and destruction
of modernity and war
and tired of all the
fighting and killing

13. How did Surrealism
happen?
•Surrealist artists
were members of the
avant-garde & they
believed ART could be
a force for social and
political change.

14. How did Surrealism
happen?
Surrealism started as
a movement in the
early 1920s:
Manifesto of Surrealism, by
Andre Breton-Paris 1924.

15. How did Surrealism
happen?
Surrealism is not
contemporary art
movement,
however, Some artists
still create surrealistic-
like artwork, and its
impact on all art is still
clear today.

16. If you want to be a surrealist artist
…
•Really explore and think
about your dreams.
Even the weird dreams
that don’t make any sense.
Then turn those dreams
into art!

17. If you want to be a surrealist artist
…
•Be different.
Try writing a story where
you write the first words
that come into your head
even if they don’t make
sense.

18. If you want to be a surrealist artist
…
•Try drawing or painting
without looking at your
paper.
• Whatever your picture
looks like it will be creative,
right?

19. If you want to be a surrealist artist
…
See the world in a
new way … mix
everything up!

20. Salvador Dali
A Spanish surrealist artist

21. Look at these Dali
paintings

24. What did you think?
Now look at this one …

25. •What
do
you see
here?
Salvador Dali:
“The Persistence of Memory”

26. What
would it
be like in
this
place?
Salvador Dali:
“The Persistence of Memory”
Memory

27. Notice the
clocks .
What is
unusual
about
them?
Salvador Dali:
“The Persistence of Memory”

28. Why are
the clocks
soft?
How
would you
explain
this
mystery ?
Salvador Dali:
“The Persistence of Memory”

29. Take a
look at
the large
object on
the
ground.
What
could it
be? ?
Salvador Dali:
“The Persistence of Memory”

30. Find a
tree.
What is
strange
about it? ?
Salvador Dali:
“The Persistence of Memory”

31. What
would the
weather
be like in
this
place? ?
Salvador Dali:
“The Persistence of Memory”

32. What
about this
place is
like a
dream ?
Salvador Dali:
“The Persistence of Memory”

33. Would you
want to
be in this
picture?
Why or
Why not? ?
Salvador Dali:
“The Persistence of Memory”

34. CREATE
Your own Dali masterpiece
Follow the directions on the following slides!

35. Directions for your surrealism art
project
• Make the place.
• Paste a magazine picture on
construction paper. Then cut so the
picture is the same size on the sides.
Leave extra space at the top!

36. Directions for your surrealism art
project
• Trick the eye.
• Cut out magazine pictures of things that
can stand in for something else. For
example, wheels might be made of chili
cans.

37. Directions for your surrealism art
project
• Arrange
• your pictures to create an imaginary
place.

38. Directions for your surrealism art
project
.
• Write
• a short story about your picture.

39. Directions for your surrealism art
project
• Make the place. Paste a magazine
picture on construction paper. Then cut
so the picture is the same size on the
sides. Leave extra space at the top!
• Trick the eye. Cut out magazine
pictures of things that can stand in for
something else. For example, wheels
might be made of chili cans.
• Arrange your pictures to create an
imaginary place.
• Write a short story about your picture.

40. HAVE FUN!!!