2. What do Surrealist artists paint
about?
•Salvador Dali •Life, or their childhood
•Rene Magritte •Magritte paints about
when he was imprisoned
and wants freedom.
• Their feelings
•Things that are inside
your body; dreams they
paint about
•They paint about how
they about things they
have lost; important
things
•Putting abiotic and
biotic things together,
making it imaginative
5. Painter: Dali
•How do you know:
more imaginative
because it has a guy,
looks like the devil,
moustache is horns
•Looks like other Dali
paintings, especially
the self-portrait
6. Painter: Magritte
•How do you know:
more realistic,
human body, man in
a suit, has the ocean,
the man’s head is a
fruit, looks like an
apple.
7. Painter: Magritte
•How do you know:
we know Magritte
loves strange rooms
with mixed and
matched items; with
realistic items in a
strange, weird room
8. Max Ernst
“Though it’s the feathers that make the plumage, it is
not the paste that makes the collage.”
12. Ernst’s strange “couple”
•This is a famous Ernst painting called “The Couple.”
• It looks like the people are made of lace or scraps, but Ernst
painted it!
13. Analysis …
•Take a close look at these unusual people. Notice the figure on the left. What is funny about this
person? Look at the face. Describe it?
•Look at the other person. What strange about the body? How would you describe the head? What is
this person doing?
•Do you think these people are men or women? What gives you that idea?
•Who are these people? Why do you think they look this way?
•What do you think they are doing together in the picture?
14. Analysis …
•Look into the background of the picture? Notice some of the details.
What do you see there?
•Where is this scene taking place? What seems to be make believe
about this place?
•What will happen next?
15. Other Ernst’s techniques
…
• Frottage
–Means shading over a
raised object
• We will try it with crayons
and various objects like:
–Coins, leaves, and odds
and ends
16. Ernst’s other techniques
…
• “Drawing Back”
– This means drawing random objects on
a page that at first look like nothing
• But, then you “draw back” into picture to
create real or imaginary objects, people,
places from the random things.
17. Ernst assignment #2
• Use objects to do frottage technique.
• Then, “draw back” and create real and
imaginary people, places, or objects.
• See Mr. DeSobe’s example.
