Surrealist Collages
Surrealism was a literary and artistic movement that began in the 1920s in Europe. Surrealist artists were upset with the reality of their world and were more interested in their dreams. They developed techniques for accessing their unconscious and created many dreamlike images. Students worked in groups to analyze paintings from surrealist artists including Salvador Dali and Leonora Carrington. Students saw that the work was painted in a realistic way but looked dreamlike due to the size of objects, the objects themselves, or how the objects were placed together in unusual ways. Students then used magazine collage as their medium to create their own dream like images.