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Welcome
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Jeremy Leatinuu Education Coordinator
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Photo Chop! Te Tuhi pre-visit lesson 1
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Welcome to Photo Chop!
During the next few this lessons we will be
exploring

• Surrealism

• The art of collage

• Painting VS Technology

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Lets start this lesson by exploring
Surrealism.
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lism
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What is Surrealism? And who are the Surrealists?
At the time many styles of painting were being
created, from landscape painting to portrait
painting and still life painting
This group of artists and writers known as the
Surrealists, decided they wanted to create their
own style of painting
Surrealism started in the 1920s when a group of
artists and writers were thinking about new ways
of creating art
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Surrealists became interested in creating
paintings that were generally based on their
dreams.
Some dreams were strange and un-real but the
Surrealists liked the idea of creating paintings
of places people have never seen or experienced.
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st-salvador-dalia-paintings/ Text
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Their paintings were filled with familiar objects
which were painted to look strange or
mysterious.
Surrealists would often think about the size of
familiar objects and change them. This would help
them create paintings of places out of this
world.
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talenvironment.blogspot.co.nz/2010/11/artist-resea
rch-rene-magritte.html Text http//library.think
quest.org/J001159/artstyle.htm
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They thought that their paintings might stir
up feelings in the back of peoples minds
Surrealists hoped their odd paintings would make
people look at things in a different way and
change the way they felt about the world they
lived in.
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Over the years many artists decided to make art
this way, from painters to photographers and
sculptors.
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Surrealism inspired photographers to think about
how they could use photographs in an interesting
way
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ist/photographers-surrealists
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Artists working in sculpture also became inspired
by Surrealism, bringing imagination and fantasy
to life
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eautifully-surreal-sculptures http//www.art.com/p
roducts/p1631811061-sa-i4190593/wendy-connett-entr
ance-to-las-pozas-the-pools-surrealist-sculpture-g
arden-and-architecture.htm http//neosurrealism.a
rtdigitaldesign.com/modern-artists/?images/midsize
/fine-art/woman-in-bed.jpg
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Surrealism continues to inspire many painters
today
Artworks are by artist Vladimir Kush considered
as one of the best surrealist artists alive
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ic-paintings-by-vladimir-kush/ http//www.spirito
fspider.com/2011/11/vladimir-kush-metaphorical-sur
realism/
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As we have seen, Surrealism can be an
interesting way to create art
Lets recap on what we have learnt so far
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What have we learnt so far?
Surrealism

• started from a group of artists and writers who
  wanted to create art in a new and different way

• artworks are generally based on dreams,
  imagination and fantasy. Sometimes they use
  familiar objects and make them appear strange or
  mysterious

• offered people a chance to look at things in a
  different way and change how we felt about the
  world we live in

• has influenced many artists to think about how
  they make art. From painters to photographers and
  sculptors.

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In the next lesson we will explore The Art of
Collage.
End of lesson