Surrealism Surrealism was a cultural movement beginning in the 1920s. Surrealists created strange pictures by altering the scale of objects, combining things in impossible ways, placing typical objects in surprising settings, transforming surfaces and creating natural impossibilities. Surrealists wanted to explore the creative potential of the unconscious mind.
Exquisite Corpse Each artist in the group adds to a section of the composition without knowing what the rest of the artists have done. The technique was invented by the Surrealists.
Project Each student takes at least 1 styrofoam block of the 11 that will create a figure. Design the image of your assigned body part. Depict the assigned body part in a fantastical way -- furry, scaly, muscular, skeletal, robotic, etc... It should be school appropriate, of course.
Sketch or print your design.
Press or carve the first cut. Proof. Print an edition of 1 or 2.
Add further details by pressing or carving the second cut. Proof.
Print the second cut ON TOP OF the first cut for a final edition of 1 or 2 prints with at least two colors.
Once all images in all classes are complete we will assemble into 3 figures.
Targets
Understands appropriate use of tools, techniques and processes involved with block printing.
Understands registration with printmaking techniques.
Is skilled at creating original, imaginative art using quality craftsmanship that demonstrates ideas, meaning or feeling.
Learners are skilled at creating a visual response to a culture event that is similar to historical responses by past artists.