• Task: compose one surrealistic picture
– Idea /concept
– Composition
• Present: 4 minutes per group
– Verbal presentation
– Visual: Sketch or Cut and paste
• Blog exercise:
1. Upload your class discussion & sketch, cut and paste etc.
2. Give your personal comment on a selected masterwork
(either painting or photography), in the context of surrealism.
What is surrealism and how it comes about?
Surrealism was officially launched as a movement with the publication of poet André Breton's first Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924. The Surrealists did not rely on reasoned analysis or sober calculation; on the contrary, they saw the forces of reason blocking the access routes to the imagination. Their efforts to tap the creative powers of the unconscious set Breton and his companions on a path that carried them through the territory of dreams, intoxication, chance, sexual ecstasy, and madness. The images obtained by such means, whether visual or literary, were prized precisely to the degree that they captured these moments of psychic intensity in provocative forms of unrestrained, convulsive beauty.
In short, surrealism is meant not to be bounded by imagination, it should be illogical and out of the world.
Personal Comment:
The creator of this piece of work did not state explicitly what kind of idea he's trying to bring across. He simply said he did this for a break from his routine work. I supposed this thought of escapism is reflected in his work.
The door in the middle of nowhere could symbolize an entry to a serene and slow-paced world which the author very much wanted to go to. The calm sea would be that destination and the balloon at the background symbolizes freedom.
This piece of work is a pretty 'toned-down' kind of surrealistic photograph, not the usual morbid kind.
Nonetheless, the Photoshop skill is neat!
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