Breadth+2

= //This specific assignment is loaned from Ms. Carrie King, Mount Eden High School. When you click on the thumbnail images, you will be taken to her class website to view the images.// = = = = **[|Surreal Perspective Drawings]** Use linear perspective and surrealism to create spaces that are out of this world.=

= = =[|Surrealism: WORLDS of Imagination “Beyond Reality”]=

// “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” // -Jean Jacques Rousseau The Surrealist movement was about recovering from the destruction of World War I and II. The Surrealists turned INWARD – escaping into a private reality based on  • DREAMS (including nightmares) • MEMORIES • and FEELINGS The new science of Psychology suggested that the “UNCONSCIOUS” mind guides our inner feelings, fears and desires, and that CLUES to this unconscious can be found in DREAMS. Surrealist art is about: • JUXTAPOSITION of objects – joining of objects in unusual combinations • NATURAL LAWS are reversed • SCALE CHANGE • DOUBLE IMAGES echo and repeat • SYMBOLS Below are some of my favorite examples of landscapes by various surrealist artists. 1 of 9 Below are some of my favorite examples of interior spaces or rooms by various surrealist artists.

1 of 8 Here are some surrealist artists to research: The old masters: Salvador Dali: [] Remedios Varo: [] Rene Magritte []

Georgio de Chirico: []

Max Ernst: []

Some New masters: Josh Keyes: []

Greg Simkins: []

Bob Dob: []

Surreal Interior in perspective

 Goals: • To show a liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious. • To show a strange and unreal-like imagery in the collage. • To create a perspective drawing based on the collage in pen & ink • To use compositional principles of design like balance, center of interest, and harmony in the collage project.

 Process:  1. Take a photo of the space you’ve chosen to depict and print it in black and white.  2. Find the vanishing point(s) and by lining up rulers with the lines in the room. Draw a few of these lines directly on your print in red pen.  3. Fantasize your space to trigger surreal, preposterous, outlandish, outrageous, bizarre thoughts. Topple mental and sensory expectations. How far out can you extend your imagination?  // Think: // “What-if” thoughts: What if automobiles were made of brick? What if alligators played pool? What if insects grew larger than humans? What if night and day occurred simultaneously?  3. Create a collage by gluing images found in magazines, online etc. to create a fantasy environment. Here are some examples of surrealist collages (although most of these are landscapes): 1 of 17  4. Use the collage to create a drawing. Sketch in pencil first, starting with the vanishing points and major parts of the room. Then add shading using various pen & ink techniques. Below are few examples of pen and ink drawings that use hatching, cross-hatching, etc to create shading and a sense of depth. 1 of 6  Below are few examples of a similar assignment called "Surreal Classroom in Perspective" by AP Studio Art Student's over the last decade. Most were done in Pen & Ink using hatching, cross hatching, stippling and other kinds of shading in ink. 1 of 11  The AP student examples below are in other black & white media (not ink) and range from normal to surreal to completely imaginary spaces. 1 of 7  These AP student examples are in color and are completely random. Many of these are the surreal bedroom homework assignment. 1 of 13 Below are some 1 point interior samples- very simple, no surreal stuff... Just examples of how things line up with the VANISHING POINT (yes, you'll need one...)  1 of 12 Below are some 2-point interior perspective samples- also simple, no surreal stuff... Just basic images that will help show you how to tackle 2-point perspective! 1 of 5 Some of the earliest and finest examples interior spaces using linear perspective. These examples also show you HOW to find the vanishing points in a photograph. 1 of 5 Here you can see how the vanishing points were found on a photo by lining up two or three lines going the same direction. I often do this using two rulers.  If you're doing 2-point it's often best if your vanishing points are FAR away from each other, even beyond the edge of the paper. Feel free to put them on the drawing board. Just be sure they're level by using a yardstick to make a horizon line.

=[|Surreal Buildings in Perspective]=

Some examples from AP students: 1 of 14

__**These are exercises for homework due MONDAY 8-22-11: (Preparation for Breadth 2)**__

In your sketchbook, use a straight edge, and pencil.
 * 1) Do a 1-point perspective drawing which contains at least SEVEN rectangular solids (in the same drawing, using the same horizon line, same vanishing point), of varying sizes, and with objects ABOVE, AT, and BELOW eye level.
 * 2) Incorporate ALL techniques on pages 4-7.
 * 3) Create a single light source, and shade the entire scene according to that light source. Add enough detail to make it interesting.

Now __**do the same**__ with 2-point perspective!