Art Movement: Surrealism artists

Here are some surrealism artists, I have chosen these 3 images to look at.

Salvador Dali 'Sleep'

I quite like this painting by Salvador. The face is being help up by wooden crutches, it also looks as if its just balanced right and any movement will cause it to fall and wake the face up. The background is quite barren apart from a temple looking building on the far right. This gives a hint that this is drawn in the dream, that it is not real.

Giorgio de Chirico 'Melancholia'

Max Ernst 'Europe after the Rain II' Decalcomania technique

This is a Decalcomania technique. Paint is placed on a board of some sort with some water, you mix the paint and water around and place a piece of paper down then peel it off. It leaves a paint mark that you are able to work into with paint brushes or pens / pencils. This was created using this technique. I quite like the look of this and it does look like the buildings have been eroded away after the rain, part of the buildings are slumped or not there to show the damage. I have also tried this technique with my own work.

Surrealism excersises

This is a drawing of a zombie in a suit. During lesson we were asked to draw something from a dream or a nightmare, one of my recent dreams was of me being in a zombie apocalypse and decided that I would draw a zombie as I am no good at drawing any detail so it is quite sketchy. I decided to give lots of marks as if the skin had cracks and parts were mauled off. For example the arm with no shoulder, part of the brain showing and no ears. This was drawn with only charcoal there are no pencil marks underneath, drawn straight from charcoal which means that any mistakes will be part of the drawing. Since the lines were quite light I decided to go over them while pressing hard on the charcoal which made the outlines darker and thicker. This meant that the lighter marks wasn't going to blend into one mess.

The right shoulder of the zombie looks bigger on purpose due to I didn't want it to look plain and boring facing forward. So I decided to have it leaning forward on one side slightly, as if swinging its arms back and forward when it takes a step forward. 

 

 

These are pieces of work that I did in class. We had to take out 3 words at random from a bag of other words and create images from those three words. These are what I created from each combination, I even wrote what the words were so that others knew what I was trying to make.

Some are quite silly and some are plain and simple as there may have not been more than one or two combinations.

Some are quite surreal if you look at each one individually, they are something that you wouldn't think to draw randomly, they were created with a mixture of words.

Art Movement: Surrealism

Surrealism

My first art movement will be about surrealism as I love working with this type of art. One of the artists I have learned about is called Salvador Dali, he works with surrealism to produce many diverse pieces of work which has attracted many views and followers.
Here are some of my favourite pieces of his work:

 These two are my most favourite out of the majority of his collection. I love how he shows the butterflies as the sails of a ship in the sea and how the bending and breaking of the clock. These gives people different emotions or thoughts in their head.


I myself like surrealism as a whole, but a more darker side. The dark eerie backgrounds with broken things, or dark creatures. I have even created pieces of surrealism work for projects.

One of the surreal artists I have studies is HR Giger. His work uses airbrush and creates a dark eerie setting that intrigues others. HR Giger is the person who created the Xenomorph from the Alien movies and Alien Vs Predator.

Hans Rudolf Giger was a Swiss surrealist painter, sculpter and set designer. Giger was part of the special effects team that had won an Academy Award for 'Best Achievement in Visual Effects' for their design work on the 'Alien' film. Giger was named to the 'Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame' in 2013.

 

Giger's style and thematic execution were influential. His design for 'Alien' was inspired by his own painting 'Necronom IV' which earned him an Oscar in 1980.

 

 

For part of my school project I have created this image on the left using only black and white chalk / oil pastel. It took me a while but it looked very good in the end. The image on the right is one of the doorway looking images I made. I had cut half the image and re-created it using plaster mesh. It took awhile to make, dry and paint.