― Salvador Dalí
The many mysteries of surrealist art are what led me to plan this lesson of surrealist collage dreamscapes.
The goal of the students was to create a surreal landscape that combines dream and reality. By cutting images from magazines, they were able to keep the realism but create the dream effect by combining them with other images using the Surrealist techniques.
As a pre-activity, I cut out multiple images and allowed the students to play with them and combine them to get an idea of how they might start their collages. Here's an example of what some of them came up with.
The group also talked about what they found was most successful the collage. They talked about how Sydnee, an 8th grader, did such a great job finding parts that fit each player so nicely. I was impressed!
Keep up the fantastic work 2D students!!