I have to do a stupid surrealist drawing for class. I need some ideas because God knows junior high killed my creativity.
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Surrealist Art Ideas
I have to do a stupid surrealist drawing for class. I need some ideas because God knows junior high killed my creativity.
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Get ideas from dreams. Have you brain do all the creativity for you.
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couldnt agree moreOriginally Posted by Avarance
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Change the size of things (i.e. make an elephant small next to a big glass of water). Distort shapes. Draw impossible things (i.e. have pigs flying). I have no idea if this counts as surrealist art. Good luck.
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I'm glad to know me and my buddies weren't the only ones to do this.
Anyways, draw surrealistic art = drawing bullshit.
Just draw all sorts of crazy bullshit, like banana-pigs with dragon wings that inhabit the northpole while barack Obama is singing the polish national anthem whilst standing atop a giant igloo shaped like a mans penis.
Have the clouds in the sky be covered newspaper-clippings(only the ones with the really weird and twisted news), and draw the sun like the angry shit in my sig, then top it off by writing FOCK CONFORMITY with a fat magic marker.
Now pour some smelly liquid on it and let the it soak into the paper.
Sign it, hand it in - profit.
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use google images, steal one thing from each image result.... and viola!!!
also, post your drawing once its done. would be interesting to see what you come up with.
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The point of surrealist art is to tap into your subconscious. This includes dream imagery. You can also try to fool people's perceptions - a lot of surrealist art likes to mess with the senses.
Meret Oppenheim's piece juxtaposes fur and porcelain, making the viewer imagine what it would be like to use furry utensils.
I love Max Ernst
really damn cool Rene Magritte piece, this is what I meant with the perceptions business.
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The trick to doing these and making them cool are using ideas that even you think are completely stupid.
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I did this before. I drew a Whale in the north pole fishing for humans. I had him a little bucket with some human remains inside=] Feel free to use it.. not too creative but yeah
O Hai, My sig isn't too big now is it?
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Since it's a drawing I thought of this example;
This is an example of the frottage technique. Max Ernst did rubbings of different textures, and then made them into a drawing (I guess he saw... some.. weird.. eye.. thing).
But basically his creative process was driven by the texture - he didn't have any preconceived idea of what he was going to do.
You can do the same by drawing random dots on a page, then connecting them, then seeing if it resembles anything and adding detail.
That would partially use the technique called automatism - which is random painting / drawing without ANY planning or thought, basically trying to have pure subconscious on canvas.
[[can you tell I'm an artfag ;_;]]
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I saw a fish at first, haha.
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You're a helpful artfag, though. I'll try automatism, since I don't have any textures I can use with frottage.Since it's a drawing I thought of this example;
This is an example of the frottage technique. Max Ernst did rubbings of different textures, and then made them into a drawing (I guess he saw... some.. weird.. eye.. thing).
But basically his creative process was driven by the texture - he didn't have any preconceived idea of what he was going to do.
You can do the same by drawing random dots on a page, then connecting them, then seeing if it resembles anything and adding detail.
That would partially use the technique called automatism - which is random painting / drawing without ANY planning or thought, basically trying to have pure subconscious on canvas.
[[can you tell I'm an artfag ;_;]]
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hmmmmmmm surrealism
look up some drawings on google and copyyyy off .. you belong in drawers block
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i thought i was the only one
to kitty: i always draw without knowing how its gunna turn up
i usually draw blindfolded if i have posterboard else i usually miss the paper
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Draw a picture of an everyday object melting away.
Salvador Dali is an artist who liked to do melting clocks.
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Try reading up on German Expressionism. That'll give you somethin' to work with.
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Edvard Munch's "The Scream"? Amazing. Surrealist art is quite expressive at times :] I'd do it.
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