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    Surrealism was an artistic movement that began in the 1920s in Paris. The artists involved, led by André Breton, were interested in exploring and depicting dreams, the subconscious mind, and irrational or unexpected juxtapositions. A key surrealist technique was metamorphosis, in which objects or people are morphed or transformed into other things. For example, Salvador Dali painted one of his favorite artists transformed into a table. The lesson provides examples of surrealist works and tasks students with creating their own surrealist images using metamorphosis and other surrealist techniques.

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    Surrealism was an artistic movement that began in the 1920s in Paris. The artists involved, led by André Breton, were interested in exploring and depicting dreams, the subconscious mind, and irrational or unexpected juxtapositions. A key surrealist technique was metamorphosis, in which objects or people are morphed or transformed into other things. For example, Salvador Dali painted one of his favorite artists transformed into a table. The lesson provides examples of surrealist works and tasks students with creating their own surrealist images using metamorphosis and other surrealist techniques.

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    Surrealism was an artistic movement that began in the 1920s in Paris. The artists involved, led by André Breton, were interested in exploring and depicting dreams, the subconscious mind, and irrational or unexpected juxtapositions. A key surrealist technique was metamorphosis, in which objects or people are morphed or transformed into other things. For example, Salvador Dali painted one of his favorite artists transformed into a table. The lesson provides examples of surrealist works and tasks students with creating their own surrealist images using metamorphosis and other surrealist techniques.

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    Surrealism Cover Lesson

    Surrealism
    STARTER - Read the text below.
    In the 1920s, a group of artists, writers and poets gathered in Paris; they were attracted to the
    ideas of the poet Andr Breton, the founder of Surrealism. These artists dedicated themselves to
    revising the standard definition of reality, creating fantastical images, recounting dreams and
    exploring the subconscious.
    Sometimes the surrealists used metamorphosis to create art works; this involves morphing or
    changing an object or person into something else, like an animal or an object. In one painting,
    Dal morphed one of his favourite artists into a table.
    Copy out the TRUE statements in your sketchbook or onto the piece of paper youre
    working on.
    Surrealism was formed in Paris in the early twentieth century
    Surrealists focused on making art that was realistic, like photographs
    The Surrealists dealt with making art that was surprising and unexpected
    Surrealists painted objects exactly how they saw them
    The Surrealists used dreams and the subconscious in their paintings

    TASK 1 - Metamorphosis
    Rene Magritte was famed for transforming one object into another. You can see this in The
    Explanation below, where a carrot is transformed into a wine bottle. Use the images of a Tomato
    and a Bowl and create your own metamorphosis image in your sketchbook.

    The Explanation Rene Magritte

    Extension Task
    Use this image of a cross section of a tomato
    and try to incorporate it into your original metamorphosis drawing,
    or recreate another drawing which uses the cross section and the bowl.

    Surrealism Cover Lesson

    Task 2 Melting Clocks


    One of Salvador Dalis most famous pieces is The Persistence of Memory, in which he painted
    his famous melting clocks. Use the image of a modern watch and try to draw it as though it has
    melted.

    The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali


    Task 3 Surreal Landscapes
    The little train appears in several of the paintings by the Italian Artist Giorgio De Chirico. Its
    precise meaning is not clear but that is often the case with Surrealist Art. Using your two previous
    designs, produce a landscape of dream-like ideas and images entirely from your own
    imagination. Make sure you include a little train in your image some where.

    Extension Task
    See if you can try to create your landscape using perspective, so that the image gradually
    vanishes the further away it gets.

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