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This unit has introduced you to the Surrealist art movement. Your task in this project is to apply the visual representation of a surrealist ideals in an artwork. It cannot just be a mish-mash of haphazard elements. You must show an understanding of surrealism elements: symbolism, the bizarre, juxtaposition, metaphor ... .
You will start your exquisite corpse landscape painting by developing a number of sketches and ideas combining NZ landscapes and your exquisite corpse drawing from earlier in the unit.
When creating your collage, refer to Taylors use of juxtaposition, repetition, size and contrast as well as her colour palette.
When deciding on your colours, you can use apps to create colour studies such as goart
ARTIST MODEL - Maggie Taylor
ARTIST MODEL - Maggie Taylor
Maggie Taylor is an artist who lives on the edge of a sun-drenched prairie populated by cows, alligators and birds on the outskirts of Gainesville, Florida. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961, and moved to Florida at the age of 11.
Her digital composites have been widely exhibited and have been collected by many museums around the world. Her work is featured in Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Her work invokes memories of dreams and otherworld beings.
STEPS TO FOLLOW
STEPS TO FOLLOW
Create 2-3 designs [use apps like Goart to play with colours]
Complete a small [A5] value study drawing of your final design
Prepare your surface for painting [gesso, colour wash]
Transfer your design [photocopy up or down as needed]. Do not waste time doing detailed transfer, simple edge lines only are needed
Painting. Remember the process for painting that we did for both the cupcake and landscape block works
dark violet for shadows
block colours in shapes
Main colour blends
details and highlights
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