Magritte, The False Mirror, 1928

Requirements:
1. Look for images in magazines.
2. Composition must utilize a minimum
of 7 different images.
3. Final must incorporate at least 4 of the
different ways to show depth in a
picture.
4. The picture needs to use Unity as the
dominant principle.
5. Translate image to tracing paper and
transfer onto canvas board.
6. Match and mix colors and save in a
sealable container.
7. Acrylic painting is about layers. Block
in basic shapes with simple color wash
first. Then work back to front, light to
dark, general to specific, add details
last!

Surrealism or surrealist art - A

twentieth century avant-garde art
movement that originated in the nihilistic
ideas of the Dadaist and French literary
figures, especially those of its founder,
French writer Andr Breton (1896-1966).
At first a Dadaist, he wrote three
manifestos about Surrealism in 1924,
1930, and 1934, and opened a studio
for "surrealist research."
Influenced by the theories of the pioneer
of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud
(German, 1856-1939), the images found
in surrealist works are as confusing and
startling as those of dreams. Surrealist
works can have a realistic, though
irrational style, precisely describing
dreamlike fantasies, as in the works of
Ren Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967),
Salvador Dal (Spanish, 1904-1988).
Delahunt, M. (2007). Artlex on Surrealism.
Retrieved on September 25, 2007 from
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/surrealism.ht
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Critique:
1.
How did you incorporate 4 different ways to depth in a picture? Explain!
2.
How did you create Unity? (What 3 principles are working together?)
3.
How is the final composition Surreal?