Final Shots For Surrealism

For the shots in the studio I tried portraying myself as shy and quite and for the secondary shots that i placed over top the studio shots, I used shots of nature to show that I like to be outside. For example, when I think of the beach I think a bright and happy place to be just like my actual personality people may not know. For heather we portrayed her as a layed back person who enjoys being in nature, which was also shown in the secondary photos. She said that her actual personality is just like what people see her personality as being,Although I struggled figuring out what photos to put where and how to blend them in my photos, I thought the final pieced turned out okay and I liked this abstraction. 

Photos for surrealism

Photos that represent me

i chose these photos that represent me because my head is always "in the clouds" and I like to be outside and enjoy nature. These photos are very bright and colorful and I thought they described me well. 

Rene Magritte & Surrealism

Surrealism is a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images. The man wearing a bowler hat in Renes pieces was a motif repeated in many photos, the reason why Magritte used this man was unclear. Some believed it was a portrait of himself. It was important that Rene varied the images of the man in the bowler hat because each painting then told a different story left for the viewer to interpret. Surreal artist create strange worlds with their art expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control. Juxtaposition, altered scale, and language helped Magritte explore Surrealism because the juxtaposition made the art random, the language is left for the viewer to interpret, and altered scale was used to disorient viewers. The reason Rene may have covered the faces of  his works was mostly because of when he was a child his mother committed suicide and when she was recovered her face was covered. Magritte strived for realism and precision in his paintings because it allowed for viewers to focus on the subject of work instead of the techniques used to paint it.

Examples: 

in both of these pieces juxtaposition is mainly used, these objects are random and are in areas you usually wouldn't find them. Altered scale is also used because the objects are enlarged and unproportional   

Examples from artist

Outward vs. Inward

Outward
It may seem, depending on what class I'm in, that I am a little quiet and more kept to myself because I like to concentrate a lot on my schoolwork. When I'm with my friends in school I'm usually smiling a lot and laughing, but other than that i usually have a straight face which could be shown in a photograph for my outward pictures. I think i would like to wear more black and white so the picture is more dark. I also would use less lighting in the studio.
List of words:
-sad
-quiet
-concentrated
-dark

Inward

The real me that people are unaware of is that I'm actually very loud and talkative around friends or people that I am used to talking to. I like to be busy most of the time with friends. This could be represented as a bright image with things in it that would be considered "happy". I would use a lot of lighting for this shot.
List of words:
-Happy
-bright
-smiley
-outgoing

Dada Final

cut copy paste

color blocks

halftone screen 

text

Summary

I really liked completing this project in an abstract matter because I personally like to edit my photos more and make them look unrealistic. I like the results from my project, I think that the edits were nice and I spent about a day and a half on each photo. This project ties into different aspects of dada using the cut copy paste, color blocks, ilegible text, and halftone screens. All four of these techniques were used for this project to represent dada.