FOUNDATIONS OF SURREALISM
This art movement explored dreams and the unconscious to create a reality beyond the real.
What is Surrealism?
Surrealists believed this part of the mind communicates through dreams and symbols.
What is the unconscious mind?
This famous Surrealist artist influenced fashion, advertising, and popular culture.
Who is Salvador Dalí?
This technique places objects in locations where they do not belong.
What is dislocation?
This is the total number of points the Surreal Transformation Artwork project is worth.
What is 20 points?
He is known as the founder of the Surrealist movement.
Who is André Breton?
This man is often called the “father of the unconscious.”
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Dalí worked in painting, film, photography, printmaking, drawing, and this cut-and-paste medium.
What is collage?
This technique changes something familiar into something strange or unusual.
What is transformation?
This rubric category focuses on how clearly your artwork shows surrealist thinking through symbolism, juxtaposition, or transformation.
What is Surrealism Concept & Visual Idea?
This earlier movement used art to make political and anti-war statements before Surrealism began.
What is Dada?
Freud’s ideas inspired Surrealists to explore what?
What is the subconscious?
What is the dreamlike mental world?
What is the unconscious?
Dalí’s strange dream imagery became widely used in this commercial industry.
What is advertising?
This technique combines things that do not normally go together.
What is juxtaposition?
Hatching and cross-hatching, layering local color, underpainting, burnishing, scumbling, stippling, smooth shading, and building strong value ranges are all part of this rubric category.
What is Colored Pencil Technique & Skill?
Surrealism developed as a response to this major war.
What is World War I?
Breton’s role in the war that made him question society was serving as this.
What is an Army medic?
Dalí’s wide-ranging artistic practice helped Surrealism spread into this broader cultural world.
What is popular culture?
This technique uses a concrete object to represent an abstract idea.
What is symbolism?
Having a strong focal point, balanced space, and an accurate transfer from collage design is scored in this category.
What is Composition & Planning?
This was the age at which Surrealism’s founder, André Breton, joined World War I.
What is 19 years old?
World War I took place during these years.
What are 1914 to 1918?
Dalí traveled to what country after Paris to escape WWII?
USA
Surrealist artists often used dislocation, transformation, juxtaposition, and symbolism to create this dreamlike effect.
What is a surreal reality?
A fully complete, clean, polished artwork with strong effort and detail earns the highest score in this rubric category.
What is Craftsmanship & Completion?