Overview
Before getting started, look through the art work made by famous surrealists. They balance the fantastic and the real, the possible and the impossible in a way that is engaging and sometimes uncomfortable. When you are looking through the following images, see if you can identify unifying characteristics that are indicative of the movement as a whole. These can include but are not limited to things like the fact that objects and images used in Surrealist art are often symbolic. In addition, these artists rendered things realistically while also manipulating scale and perspective. Humor and personal revelations are often used in surrealism. For this assignment, you will need to incorporate the characteristics of Surrealism to create a landscape that incorporates hands.
Vocabulary
Surrealism- artistic movement against a society ruled by rational thought, the Surrealists tapped into the “superior reality” of the subconscious.
juxtaposition- two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
Famous artists: click the links below to check out more surrealist artists.
Salvador Dali
Rene Magritte
Marcel Duchamp
Frida Kahlo
juxtaposition- two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
Famous artists: click the links below to check out more surrealist artists.
Salvador Dali
Rene Magritte
Marcel Duchamp
Frida Kahlo
Featured artist- Jacek Yerka- Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte get a lot of attention (rightfully so) but there are a lot of contemporary artists whose works are inspired by Surrealism and are great examples of creating the dream like and subconscious qualities that were such a big part of the original movement. Click on images to see full size examples. Notice that no matter how strange the images get, each image is a cohesive whole. The artist has created a world in which all of the manipulations of scale and strange juxtapositions make sense.
Surreal Handscape Instructions
- Sketch- use source photos to draw 3 different hand positions. You are shooting for realistic proportions here. Shade one of them using graphite. Make sure that you get a range of values and that those values are placed correctly to achieve the illusion of form. Turn in your sketches for a grade.
- Plan- Figure out how you want to incorporate your hands into a landscape and lightly draw everything out as a contour drawing (no shading yet) submit your drawing for an in progress check so that adjustments can be made before you start adding shading.
- Finish- Add value, texture and detail to your drawing to finish your piece. Your hands should be done in graphite but if you want to add accents in colored pencil or watercolor that is fine. Submit your drawing and the source photos of your hands with a completed rubric for a grade.
![](http://www.weebly.com/weebly/images/file_icons/rtf.png)
handscapes_.docx |