Project 6: Surrealism Final Picture

For the past week, we have been working on surrealism. We posted about the history of surrealism and talked about some of the pioneers in surrealist art. We finished by creating our own surrealist style images. In my image, I used six different images and using Photoshop edited them all together to create the final product.

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Project 6: Surrealism

Surrealism was a mass cultural movement that began in the 1920s. Surrealist art is known for unsettling and illogical qualities. It is often described as a mixture of dreams and reality. The surrealist movement was based in Paris and gradually spread around the world affecting things such as theatre, visual arts, film, literature, as well as philosophy and social thought and practice. Below are some examples of surrealist art by three renowned artists.

The Lovers II by Rene Magritte 1928

Microcosm by Remedios Varo 1959

The Temptation of St. Anthony by Max Ernst 1945

A more modern take on surrealism is contemporary or "magical realism" photography. Below are some examples I found of photographs with surrealist qualities with a slightly more modern take.

Rebeca Cygnus

Melvin Sokolsky

Elaine Reinhold

Project 5: Basic Photoshop Editing