1. SURREALIST COLLAGE

2. WHAT IS SURREALISM? Art movement in the 1920’s
Made art about dreams and fantasy
Nonsense scenes that look “real”
Created strange creatures from everyday objects
Allowed the subconscious mind to express itself

3. Salvador Dali
He painted like a master but didn’t use real life subjects
He did film, photography, and sculpture but best known for his painting
Big imagination and attention grabbing subjects
Joined the Surrealist movement in 1930
Lived in Spain until 1940 then moved to US

4. Persistence of Memory, 1931 Salvador Dali

5. The Elephants 1948 Salvador Dali

6. Sleep 1937 Salvador Dali

7. What is Collage?
Artwork that is made from collecting images or objects then assembling them to make a whole new piece of art

8. Surrealist Collage Surrealists thought making collage art would…
Show how the subconscious mind works
Make people think about dreams and fantasies as art
Help people see relationships between things that don’t normally go together
The Beautiful Girl by Hannah Hoch

10. Surrealism Buzz Words
Juxtaposition: pairing things that don’t normally go together
Dislocation: when objects are placed where they shouldn’t be
Transformation: turning something familiar into something unusual and strange
Scale: the size that something normally is in its environment

12. Learning Target
I can create a collage inspired by the ideas of Surrealism using the elements and principles of color, space, shape, variety, and scale.