Art Movements Minilesson: Surrealism

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• Leerjaar 3

Art Movement Trio Choice: Surrealism

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• Get out your materials (Dummy/ Pen)
• Be Silent and face the teacher
• Get ready for instruction 

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

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

René Magritte

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

MC Escher

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

Salvador Dalí

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

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!

Choose your artist:

MC Escher

René Magritte 

Salvador Dalí

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let's apply

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

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

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