Green_2D Project - 04 Surrealist Collage
Project Objectives: Create a surrealist collage/painting using magazine images with the following criteria:
The aims of Project 004
-Experience design principles, including balance, space,
scale, unity and variety
-Use exaggerated proportions to create a sense of fantasy
and dreams
-Practice collage or cut paper techniques
-Demonstrate Craftsmanship
Step one-Review
the works of Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, or another surrealist and develop your own theme from a dream you've had or an idea by using thumbnails. (Note, you might want to look at magazines, find some images first to help in this process, or you might already have an idea.)
Step two- From looking
at magazine images, or conceptual thinking of a dream, sketch out some ideas
(3-5 thumbnails) in your sketchbook. Be sure to include a perspective background that will add the element of space to the collage.
Step three-Create
your own Surrealist painting/collage using acrylic paint, cut paper, AND images
cut out from magazines or other sources.
You do not have to use cut paper
or painting if you can find the images you need from magazines to create
your collage. However, you must include some images cut from magazines.
The dimensions will be 11x17 mounted on a 12x19 bristol groundsheet.
Surrealism and the Surrealist Collage
Excerpts from Theartstory.org
"The Surrealist movement was founded in Paris by a small group of writers and artists who sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and powerfully influenced by Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists believed the conscious mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighting it down with taboos. Influenced also by Karl Marx, they hoped that the psyche had the power to reveal the contradictions in the everyday world and spur on revolution."
Remember to push the idea of space in your collage and alter scale and proportion to help further the irrational sense of Surrealism in your collage.
REVIEW: the ways to create the Illusion of Space
Overlap-overlapping shapes appear closer than those being overlapped
The dimensions will be 11x17 mounted on a 12x19 bristol groundsheet.
Surrealism and the Surrealist Collage
"Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life."
Excerpts from Theartstory.org
"The Surrealist movement was founded in Paris by a small group of writers and artists who sought to channel the unconscious as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. Disdaining rationalism and literary realism, and powerfully influenced by Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists believed the conscious mind repressed the power of the imagination, weighting it down with taboos. Influenced also by Karl Marx, they hoped that the psyche had the power to reveal the contradictions in the everyday world and spur on revolution."
Remember to push the idea of space in your collage and alter scale and proportion to help further the irrational sense of Surrealism in your collage.
REVIEW: the ways to create the Illusion of Space
Overlap-overlapping shapes appear closer than those being overlapped
Size-large objects appear closer
Shading-can introduce volume to forms
Value/Contrast-high contrast items appear closer to the viewer
Placement-objects placed near the bottom of the picture plane appear closer
Linear Perspective-1pt, 2pt, and 3pt laws of perspective create the illusion of space
Also:
Color Perspective-warmer colors tend to stand out further, cooler colors tend to recede.
Atmospheric Perspective-Hazy or muted edges and areas tend to recede back in space.
Here is a video (set to some cool jazz) that highlights these principles again (if you want a quick refresh)
Here are some more images from Surrealist Artists and Collage Artists to hopefully inspire you and give you some ideas on what to do in your work.
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