Jerry Uelsmann
- 1. Jerry Uelsmann American Born, 1934- Gainesville Resident
- 2. A analogue photographer with surrealist inclinations and a photoshop aesthetic done completely in the dark room with multiple exposures and negatives.
- 3. “ My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.”
- 4. and he taught at UF, still lives in Gainesville and is married to artist, Maggie Taylor.
- 5. So if you remember…
- 6. Surrealism is an avant-garde movement in art and literature in the 1920’s that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.
- 7. Some common surrealist techniques are… Minification/Magnification Multiplication Fragmentation Metamorphosis Transference Distortion
- 8. Minification /Magnification: Something is made to appear smaller/bigger than expected.
- 9. Multiplication : Repeating images or forms within a composition
- 10. Fragmentation : Splitting or fragmenting objects or images. The subject may be either partially developed, fragmented, or dismembered.
- 11. Metamorphosis : Something in a progressive states of change.
- 12. Transference : The intrusion of an object or element into a space or environment not normally its own; the displacement of an object or elements into a new situation.
- 13. Distortion : the use of latent or hidden images; obscuring the qualities of an object
- 14. Apply the six common surrealist techniques to the following images.
- 15. A.
- 16. B.
- 17. C.
- 18. D.
- 19. E.
- 20. F.
- 21. M.C. Escher G.
- 22. Rene Magritte H.
- 23. Man Ray I.
- 24. Dali J.
- 25. K.
- 26. L. Kiki Smith
- 27. Frida Kahlo M.
- 28. Mark Ryden N.
- 29. Ron Mueck O.