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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 scape painting by developing a number of sketches and ideas combining NZ landscapes and origami pieces [perhaps refer back to your drawing assessment!]
When creating your collage, refer to Dentices use of juxtaposition, repetition, size and contrast.
When deciding on your colours, you can use apps to create colour studies such as goart
ARTIST MODEL - Candi Dentice
Candi Dentice is an artist with conscience. In her oil paintings nature is tightly ordered and contained. She has a Magritte-like attention to detail and her work is symbolic and allegorical, but unlike Rene Magritte and the Surrealists her focus is on ecology, the plight and fate of the natural world; the view outside our window.
Origami is a recurring motif. Flocks of paper birds take wing and paper boats are set adrift. Dentice’s style is bittersweet, her paintings evoke fragility. In Dawn and Dusk shadows stretch across panoramic vistas of sea and sky. The mood in her illustrative landscapes is wistful. The folded birds and boats become totemic, traces of the human hand. The delicate art of origami is matched by Dentice. Her paintings render and record an artificial world populated by native trees and leaves. Her level of skill is so convincing that it can take time to comprehend that her landscapes are fictitious; false.
STEPS TO FOLLOW
STEPS TO FOLLOW
Create your collage [use apps like Goart to play with colours]
Complete a small [A5] value study drawing of your collage
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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