Art History: surrealism
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The Surrealist artists sought to channel the unconscious thoughts as a means to unlock the power of the imagination. They did not place value on rationalism and literary realism.
The work of Sigmund Freud was profoundly influential for Surrealists, particularly his book,The Interpretation of Dreams (1899). Freud legitimized the importance of dreams and the unconscious mind; his exposure of the complex and repressed inner worlds of human desires are the basis for much of Surrealism. Surrealism 's style is contradictory and paradox. The paintings are hyper-realistic rendered in which objects were depicted in crisp detail. However they images are juxtaposed by irrational content and meaning therefore emphasizing the dream-like quality of the art. Such artist that used this style were. Dalí, Tanguy, and Magritte is painted in . |
Modern Surrealist aykut aydogdu
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About
Aykut Aydogdu was born in 1986, Ankara - Turkey. He started studying Fine Arts at high school and graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts - Graphic Design. He has various works on commercial illustrations, magazine covers, movie posters. His surreal figurative works are mainly concentrated on the dilemmas of the daily life.https://www.aykworks.com/about Despite that his work is purely digital, ( painted in Adobe Photoshop) he is able to capture the complexity of the human soul. He is surrealist, his portfolio is extensive, diverse in themes and styles and he let the viewer decide what’s real and what’s not. He creates appealing and poetic portraits, directing us into a surreal world overflowing with symbols and visual metaphors. http://meetingbenches.com/2017/06/aykut-aydogdu-turkish-illustrator/ |
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About the Assignment
Like magritte and aykut-aydogdu we will be taking a Organic form (person or animal) and combine them with other non organic or expected/ normal objects. The objective is to combine/ collage them in such a way that its creates a symbolic meaning and a dream like conceptional statement. From this collage you will be digitally painting your artwork. Bellow are some examples of past students
Surreal Facial Feature Painting steps
Step:1
In photoshop collage with at least one facial feature ie nose, mouth, or eye with some other imagery that alludes to a concept ie a dreamlike story.
In photoshop collage with at least one facial feature ie nose, mouth, or eye with some other imagery that alludes to a concept ie a dreamlike story.
Step:2
In a new file in Photoshop paste in your collage image ane paint the entirety of the picture. Remember to paint first general shapes of color ie blocks of color then blend the colors later to focus on painting details. General to specific just like the light source painting.
In a new file in Photoshop paste in your collage image ane paint the entirety of the picture. Remember to paint first general shapes of color ie blocks of color then blend the colors later to focus on painting details. General to specific just like the light source painting.
Digital painting technics
hairHair is tricky to paint. It needs to be linear but still work as a whole shape. I've found luck with blocking out with linear paint stroke all painting in a parallel direction then with a very light about of smudging with smudge tool it can look feathery while retaining the individuality of each hair. bellow is a few websites that show other technics that you may find helpful.
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eyeEyes are equally as hard but for different reasons. First everyone things they inherently know what an eye is suppose to look like and would also say that the eyes background is white.....WRONG. the eye is actually round in shape so there it has alot of value ie highlights and shadows making the white of the eye anything but straight white.
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Digital painting textures
A large part of achieving realism in digital painting is applying different textures to different parts. The hair of a person should look different than the smoothness of the skin. The way to achieve different textures is to apply different ways of blending or no blending at all. bellow is a worksheet that will help walk you through different blends.
AssignmentLike magrite we will be taking a facial feature that we can then play with the symbolic meaning of to creae a conceptional statement. For example my example is a pic of a eye with a rose for an iris and thorns around the eye. I am trying to say that humans have a very beautify and passionate core but are very guarded making it easy to miss.
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