Name: _______________________________

Surrealism Paintings
Goal: To make a painting that embodies the ideas of surrealism.

You

must:
A) Find your setting in order to determine horizon line and composition. Circle which
you plan to do:
Landscape (determine season)

Indoor Scene

Riverscape

Cityscape

Outerspace

Other: __________________

B) Change the normal scale of objects

(ex: fruit the size of a living room or bugs the size of people)
What are you going to do? _____________________________________________
C) turn the accepted order of things upside down
(ex: dogs walking people instead of people walking dogs)
What are you going to do? ____________________________________________
D) mix internal and external space
(ex: trees growing in a kitchen, seeing the inside and outside of an object at
the same time)
What are you going to do? ____________________________________________
E) transform one object into another
(ex: a car turning into a fish, an animal turning into a person)
What are you going to do? ____________________________________________
Your entire artwork needs to demonstrate that instructions and concepts of
surrealism are understood.
This is NOT supposed to look like anything you can see in real life! Draw a
THUMBNAIL SKETCH.