Surrealism Vocabulary and Art

Putting 2 or more objects side by side that don't normally belong together

• Transformation

• Dislocation

• Juxtaposition

• Scale

Changing the size of something to create a new meaning

• Scale

• Juxtaposition

• Dislocation

• Transformation

Putting an object where it doesn't normally belong

• Juxtaposition

• Scale

• Transformation

• Dislocation

To change the physical properties of an object such as from hard to soft.

• Scale

• Transformation

• Dislocation

• Juxtaposition

What is Surrealism?

• Art that looks real

• Art that uses dreamlike or bizarre situations that are meant to shock or surprise the viewer

• Art that explores how light reflects off of objects

• Art that shows one image from several viewpoints

A visual technique when an artist creates an image within another image in the same artwork

• Scale

• Juxtaposition

• Transparency

• Double image

Transparency

• When objects in an artwork are see through

• When an object is placed where it shouldn't be

• Placing two objects side by side that don't normally belong

• Changing the size of an object to create new meaning

What is one way to create a SURREAL artwork?

• Create a dream like setting

• Create objects with holes cut out of them

• Change the physical qualities of the objects

• Create animals that metamorphose into something else

A Surrealist technique where an object changes from one thing into another like a dragonfly into a paperclip.

• Transformation

• Metamorphosis

• Dislocation

• Double image

Which artist is known as a Surreal artist?

• Joan Miro

• Rene Magritte

• Salvador Dali

• Charles Barkley