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The document provides information about Surrealism and techniques used by Surrealist artists like Max Ernst, including collage, acetone printing, and the exquisite corpse technique. It then instructs on creating artworks using these Surrealist methods, having students make a collaged hybrid creature, trace it with cross-hatching, and add color and texture using rubbings inspired by Ernst's work.
Part 1: 2 Dimensions
- 2. Max Ernst and the Surreal Collage Learning Objectives Investigate the work of Max Ernst and the intentions of the Surrealists Develop an understanding of using existing imagery to create impossible scenes Learning Outcome All of you will create a collage that expresses absurdity, nightmares or dreams inspired by the work of Max Ernst Some of you will use acetone, transfer printing to create parts of the image
- 4. What is Surrealism? Watch the clip and listen for the answers to these questions…… Where did Surrealism begin? What did Andre Breton (godfather of Surrealism) believe? What did Surrealists do with everyday objects? What is Automatism? Clip- Introduction to Surrealism
- 5. Ernst created collages by cutting pictures from old catalogues and cheap novels, gluing them onto different backgrounds. Some of his most imaginative collages appeared in a novel in 1934 How do these collages created by Max Ernst fit with the ideas behind Surrealism?
- 7. Acetone printing Take a cotton ball and saturate it with acetone. Starting at the centre of the image, swipe your saturated cotton ball across the paper from the centre outwards. The acetone will reactivate the ink on the paper causing it to transfer. Try rubbing the wrong end of a pencil of blunt tool across the image, burnishing it to make sure it has transferred completely. Gently peel back the paper to check that it is transferring. If it is not try different amounts of acetone or pressure when rubbing- it’s not an exact science. The paper should peel up fine as long as the paper is still a little moist. If the paper dries completely, you can very lightly dampen it with a moist cloth and continue rubbing the paper off with your finger.
- 8. The Exquisite Corpse Learning Objectives Develop an understanding of how and why the Surrealists used a simple parlour game to generate artwork and how this has influenced contemporary artists, the Chapman Brothers. Learning Outcome Play the game using poly printing techniques to create an outcome.
- 9. Exquisite Corpse is based on an old parlour game called Consequences. It was played by several people, each of whom would draw on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and pass it on to the next player for his contribution. The technique exploited the mystique of accident. It was a kind of collective collage of words or images. Why would this process appeal to the Surrealists? “Poetry must be made by all and not by one.” Lautréamont
- 10. Consequences 1.Fold a sheet of A4 paper into three even rectangles 2.You will have 2 minutes to sketch out a head to the body and leave a neck line 3.Afterwards swap with the person next to you and they should draw from the neck to the waist 4.Continue to the next person and draw from the waist to the knees 5.FInally, the last person draws the knees to the feet
- 11. The Chapman Brothers Contemporary artists, Jake and Dinos Chapman, etch their part of the ‘figure’ into a metal plate. Their assistants then cover up the section they have etched before passing it onto the other brother. The result is only revealed when the plate is inked up and printed. These etchings feature comic- horror imagery typical of the Chapmans’ work: skulls, eyeballs on stalks, grotesque animal heads, liquids dripping and spurting from wounds, writhing intestines, and claw-like hands and feet . Is this Surreal?
- 12. Exquisite Corpse On the three strips of poly board provided, draw three sections of a creature, inanimate objects, animal or human. (Use the resources to help you) You should attempt a head section, middle section including arms and a final section showing legs and feet. This is a rough guide. The last thing we want is for your drawing to look ‘normal’. Swap two of your poly board strips with other members of the group. Print these in order to see the creature you have created. How to print
- 13. Assemblage Hybrid Learning Objectives Develop an understanding of using existing imagery to create impossible creatures Learning Outcome Collage hybrid creature
- 14. Use at least three different images to create your hybrid creature Ask yourself the following questions: How many legs / arms and heads will it have? Would it walk, slither or creep? Will it have an animal, insect or human face or a combination?
- 15. Practice these cross hatching techniques in fine liner before tracing your collage….
- 16. Trace your Creature Trace your original collage and use different crosshatching techniques to add tone and texture. Look at the work of contemporary artists Alessandro Maffioletti…..
- 17. …and Dan Hillier to see how they use different mark making techniques.
- 18. Max Ernst and Rubbings Learning Objectives Develop understanding of Max Ernst techniques in creating and using rubbings Learning Outcome Add colour and texture to the traced hybrid creature
- 19. Max Ernst collaged rubbings…. Click here
- 21. Either add rubbings of different textures directly into your pen drawing or collage rubbings behind sections of your drawing. Imagine the drawing on the right behind your tracing…