Surrealism in Art and Photography

Surrealism is an artistic movement that was founded in the early 1920s. It's influences include Sigmund Freud (famous psychoanalyst who was fascinated by the subconscious mind and dreams). "Surrealism style uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create art without the intention of logical comprehensibility." In other words, it doesn't make sense in the real world, only the surreal world. Surrealism includes an element of surprise and uses unlikely juxtapositions and blends dream and reality.

Please research Surrealism in Art and/or photography and create a vuvox presentation that includes the following: (Please post your finished vuvox presentation on your blog by Wednesday Nov. 2, 2011. Ready to present please!)

1. What is Surrealism? (In your own words please!)

2. Pick one Surrealist artist and briefly discuss their view on surrealism, the years they produced art (or birth-death), and who they are as artists in general. Were they part of other artistic movements?

3. Show 8 examples of Surrealist art by the artist you have selected.

Please pick one artist each so that we can cover all of them.

Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Hieronymus Bosch, Yves Tanguy, MC Escher, Erik Johansson (modern day photographer), Jerry Uelsmann (modern photographer who worked with negatives to create surrealist photos).

4. PLease include any and ALL links that you have used to find your information. Please do not copy and paste directly from these links!! That's called plagiarism and it's a big fat NO-NO!

5. You can include a reference list at the end of your presentation, but you MUST embed a minimum of 3 links (they could be videos, audio interviews or just other websites with more information) into your vuvox presentation.

6. Don't forget to use hotspots and cutouts. Make the presentation surreal, but make sure we can clearly see and identify the artist's works, as well as the text that answers the questions above.

This is a precursor to your Photoshop assignment, so start thinking about ideas for your own photoshopped surrealistic dreamscapes... here are a few kind of fun ones to whet your appetite.

http://www.alltelleringet.com/