During this quarter you will continue practicing how to use the Photoshop tools already learned, as well as Blending Options (when you double-click a layer and open the Layer Style window) and Blend Modes. You will also learn how to use the Color Replacement Tool, the History Brush Tool, the Red Eye Tool, the Eyedropper Tool, the Healing Brush Tool, and the Stamp Tool.
You will also learn how to “enhance” photographs and images, how to use blend modes and adjust color, how to use the Liquify Filter and the Oil Paint Filter (and other Photoshop filters) and how to create “frames”and brushes in Photoshop. And you will learn how to create a collage using the Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee tools (using "feathering"), how to use Type more effectively and the importance of creating effective advertisements.
The exercises in Google Classroom teach you how to be more creative by looking at the work of well-known surrealist artists, like René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, André Bretton, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, Jindřich Štyrský and others, and trying to imitate some of their work.
What to learn? What is "surrealism"? Surrealism is a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images. Read more about this movement online and read a little more about the artists mentioned and their work. Look at samples of their work and see which ones you like best. You can check the following site and others: Surrealism (click the link).
What do you like about surrealism? Homework due December 21, 2016: 1) Give me a good definition of "Surrealism" (in your own words after doing some research); 2) How do "dreams" play a part in this movement (in surrealist work)? 3) Mention at least four surrealist artists that you like (after checking their work online) and tell me in general - why do you like their work? and lastly 4) Why do you think this movement is important in the art world?
Salvador Dalí's work (what's the name of this painting?)
