Surrealism Target Group: Grade 7 Goal (Terminal Objective): Drawing, Design, Painting Objective: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize knowledge and ideas for the expression and production of art. Students will identify the sources for art expression and describe the processes artist use in developing their ideas. Students will generate an artwork based on a personal theme. National Standards: Visual Arts Grades 5-8 Content Standard 1: Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes Visual Arts Grades 5-8 Content Standard 2: Using knowledge of structures and functions Visual Arts Grades 5-8 Content Standard 3: Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas Visual Arts Grades 5-8 Content Standard 6: Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines. Language Arts Cross Curriculum Connection Purpose: Students will become aware of variations of media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas and interpretation of individual dreams and fantasies. Students will become familiar with the Surrealist Movement in Art by conducting research and generating individual and group presentations on the movement. Student will become familiar with artists who are associated with the Surrealist Movement: Marc Chagall, Salvatore Dali, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, and Joan Miro. Students will create a painting in the Surrealistic style by interpreting a thought or dream. New Vocabulary: fantasy, make-believe, imaginary, dreams, nightmares, invent, distort, proportion, opaque, texture, transparent Materials:

Sargent Matt or Gloss Medium Liquid Metal Acrylic Sargent Acrylic Paint 22-8815 22-8808 22-1206 22-2499

Sargent White Glue Sargent Gesso 22-1103 22-8801

Matt board, heavy tag or paper, white or light colored tissue, a variety of patterned paper Time: This lesson may be modified from one to five hours, depending upon the size and complexity of expectations.

Introduction and Motivation (Set): View referenced websites to analyze exemplars Surrealistic art. Focus on the works of surrealistic artists such as Marc Chagall, Salvatore Dali, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, and Joan Miro. Discuss how these artists have used their art form to convey contemporary themes using imaginary imagery. Instruction: Demonstration of paper collage techniques. Review of the characteristics of Surrealistic art. Experimental drawing techniques discuss and observed. Students will split into several groups to research a surrealistic artist and provide written individual reports on that artist as well as a group presentation. Under teacher direction, students may want to do composite group drawings to stimulate imagination. 1. Form a group of three or more people and fold a single piece of paper in even sections, one section for each person in the group. 2. The first person draws in the first section and into about one eighth of the next section so that when the paper is folded back, the next person can see only a little bit of the first drawing. 3. The paper is passed around the group with each person adding to the drawing keeping the paper folded until it passes through the group. 4. Include a wide range of lines, values, and textures and introduce color if possible. 5. A group can work on several drawings at once. Activities: (1) Guided Practice: 1. Students create a narrative of a dream they have had.* 2. Students create illustrations of that dream.* 3. Students will create a sketch of a simple object they saw in their dream. 4. Students create sketches of several imaginary creatures. 5. Students will research the Surrealistic Movement and provide a group presentation selecting one artist per group. 6. Students will use sketchbook renderings to create a surrealistic painting. (2) Independent Practice and Check for Understanding: Teacher circulates among working students visually recording students demonstrating understanding of objectives and provides reinforcement. 1. Using their sketches, students will develop a surrealistic composition on a piece of tag board, matt board, or heavy paper. Keep pencil lines to a minimum, saving most of the details as additions after the paper background preparation stage.

2. Crumble pieces of white or light colored tissue paper and then smooth them out.

3. Cover entire surface of drawing by painting on Sargent matte or gloss medium, laying down the tissue paper and covering over with another coat of medium. Work quickly, covering entire surface. Do not smooth out wrinkles. Let dry.

4. Apply gesso to background areas of the surface. Scrub the gesso into wrinkles, For flatter areas, use an old credit card or plastic squeegee to swipe through a layer of gesso. Let dry.

5. Select 1 or 2 colors of Sargent Acrylic paint to serve as base coat. Lighter shades work best. Mix equal parts of Sargent Medium and paint. Work quickly. Cover entire surface with the first of the two colors. Remove a fair amount of wet paint with a paper towel, dabbing specifically around drawn motif.

6. Sprinkle water over surface and dab again. 7. Repeat process with the second color in random patches. 8. Use another color, repeat process again in random patches. As many layers as desired can be added. 9. Use Sargent white glue and specialty papers to glue onto surface. Some ideas for these papers could be wallpaper, gift wrap, magazine cut outs, greeting card paper, etc.

10. Gadget stamp onto surface with full strength Sargent acrylic. Some ideas for gadget stamps: bubble wrap, cardboard, pencil erasers, plastic grocery bags, sponges, etc. 11. Use full strength acrylics to create painting on this prepared surface.

12. Wash surface with a glaze composed of water, medium, and acrylic paint. Dab off. This may be done many times. Let dry.

13. Use Sargent Liquid Metals paint to dry brush over surface.

. (3) Closure: Students record, either by checklist or writing prompt, the symbols used, the connection to the exemplar, and the innovations they provided to the piece.* Students will generate a title for the

surrealistic painting and compose a paragraph about the dream and the symbols chosen to illustrate that dream. Evaluation: Teacher/student critique and Individual Evaluation. Students will write an evaluation discussing the following topic questions: Was an interesting collage created as a basis for the painting? Were surrealistic elements added to the final painting? Was the background created with layers of texture and how was that texture created? Extension: Surface may have three dimensional objects glued onto it as a relief design. Students may explore Surrealistic art in the form of sculpture or printmaking. *Sketchbook extensions Resources: DAVIS PUBLICATIONS INC catalogue from Gazelle Book Services, ARTSTARTERS : 50 Nifty Thrifty Art Activities [Ande Cook] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism http://www.surrealism.org/ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-surreali.html http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/surrealism.html

BY JANE STRICKER Art Consultant ________________________________________________________________________________________ www.sargentart.com

01/27/2008