Today we introduced Surrealism, an art and literary movement that began in the 1920's. Surrealist work attempts to reveal the subconscious mind using fantasy and an unusual juxtaposition of images. We discussed with the children how dreams entwine events, people, places and things that are often unrelated in reality: upon waking, our dreams may not make sense to us and may leave us feeling quite perplexed!
We really enjoyed listening to some of the dreams that our students shared with us ~ definitely surreal and perfect for setting the stage for our project this afternoon! Students began by selecting a variety of magazine images and were encouraged to juxtapose and collage these images to create some very curious relationships: below you will find a snake slithering out of a plate of spaghetti, an owl with a toothbrush nose, a child with a chicken head and more : ) Enjoy!
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| Students observing Mr. Coppersmith's Surreal collage exemplar |
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| Mr. C's Surreal collage exemplar |
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| Ms. Jenkin's Surreal collage exemplar |
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| Andrew's surreal collage with pop-up elements (sea lion and snake) |
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| Anika |
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| Elise |
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| Emory |
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| Aidan |
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| Laila |
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| Dexter |
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| Jackson |
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| Emory |
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| Xavier |
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