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Surrealism

What is Surrealism?

A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter.

2. Show 3 examples of Surrealist art (listing the artist’s name)

Young Chimera / Jeune chimère. 1921. Collage, gouache and Chinese ink on paper. 29 x 9 cm

Artist René Magritte, Year 1964, Type Oil on canvas, Dimensions 116 cm × 89 cm (45.67 in × 35 in)

Artist Salvador Dalí, Year 1931, Type Oil on canvas, Dimensions 24 cm × 33 cm (9.5 in × 13 in) 

3. Pick one Surrealist artist and briefly discuss their view on surrealism.

One surrealist artist I like is Rene Magritte. The reason I like Rene Magritte is because he had a very abstract definition of life. He always made paintings that show the truth of life and man. For example his painting, The Son of Man. It was a self portrait. It was what he thought of himself. About the painting Rene Magritte said:


At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

4. Find two examples of Surrealism in modern day photography using Photoshop (or…perhaps not using Photoshop) (list the photographer and explain if you can, how it was done)

Noname, Created by litzer:

http://www.photoshopfiles.com/photoshop/abstract/surreal_artwork_427.html

Ther_cocoon , created by djedamrazuk

http://www.photoshopfiles.com/photoshop/abstract/ther_cocoon_58.html

Stop Motion Animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alDP12wEE5c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywu1DeqXTg4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9YRh0LynGE&NR=1&feature=fvwp


1. What is the main focus of the video? (i.e. the impact of prejudice, discrimination, systemic discrimination, racial slurs?)
The main focus of the video is discrimination.

2. Describe how the video gets this point across.

The video gets the point of discrimination by showing diffrent people wit diffrent shirts of colours in diffrent groups. One person from each group trys to go to another group, but the members dont let them because they are discriminating against their shirts. the video shows the left out people in another group with diffrences which shows the point that we need to stop discrimination and take a step away from it.


3. What techniques are used in the video to help convince the viewer of the point of the video. (Look at shots, music, content, text, voice, voice-over, sound fx etc.)

There is sad music, it says stand out and fight racism at the end of the video and all the shots are about acceptance and discrimination.

Steave

I checked out http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit07.htm
and saw an awsome optical toy called a Phenakistoscope. It is an instrument people used to animate with, around 1829, though it was shown to the public in 1832, it was used a couple of years before. I like the Phenakistoscope because it is not something people use these days. It was surprising to see diffrent kinds of animation techniques before computers were created. The phenakistoscope works by 2 discs ontop of each other on the same axis. When you look at the discs through a mirror in the slots, the pictures on the second disc appear to move.

http://ashketchumpokemon.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post.html#comments

Our video, for CyberARTs
This video was created by Cinan, Fasai, and Nic.
This video was based on doing three perspective shots of the same object, from different angles and diffrent things happening, about what appens infrot of one door. Using IMovie, we edited to make the slow motion effects, the sound effects, and the music. Along with cutting out parts we created the video, as a exercise .

VIDEO SEQUENCING

Video Sequencing is the foundation of every video story. Basically video sequenceing is a scene broken down to a short clip but stil delivering the same message. Instead of a 4 minute video of a person walking down the stairs out the door and into a car it would be a 10 second video showing the same thing. When video sequenceing dont pan or zoom. Just take a 10 second shot whatever. it really help. What also helps is haveing lots of b roll.


http://masteringmultimedia.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/sequencing-the-foundation-of-video-storytelling/

Our assignment was to edit a picture we had taken in class on photoshop and make it look realistic.

To start off I edited the gradient and made it black and white, to create a nice realistic effect. I thought it would work best because we used charcoal which is black, so basically grayscale would make it look more real. I increased the hue and the saturation. I also increased the exposure, and gamma. Finally I decreased the brightness and cropped the picture. As you can see above, this was what I had ended up with. :)

CINANIME PRODUCTIONS

 CINANIME productions are the new anime. We specialize in Asian styled animations.  Anything that involves animating or cartoons, we will do.  We are always optimistic and will always finish the job on time with great quality. We have an angel on our logo because we fly above the competition and make sure that we finish the job without causing much damage to the environment. We chose an angel for our logo because angels represent dignity, glory, honor and bearers of joyful news. And because we always satisfy our customers we thought an angel would be perfect because we always bring joyful news.
My logo contains many lines. I wanted all the lines to have some sort of curve in them to make them look fun and cool. I did not leave many strait lines because I did not want it to look boring.  I chose strong bold lines to make my picture pop out and be noticed. I wanted to express that we are cool, that we are the new anime and we are now the best.
I added a mixture of warm and dark lines. I used many warm and vibrant coloures like yellow and peach to make you feel calm and steady but added a mix of dark blues and grey’s to tell you that though we are easy going, we are also very competitive and have a strong personality.
My third logo solution was very difficult to make compared to the black and white logo because I had to add colours. My second logo was easy to make because I am very good at making gray scale pictures. I do not enjoy colouring and therefore I focus more on grays. When I looked at the grayscale version it gave me a darker perspective. It showed me the dark side of the angel and how strong and bold it looked. My first solution was the easiest because it did not involve any grays or colours. It just had backs and whites, which was easy to make. But the only thing was that black and white did not really express much expression or really symbolize much.
I made my animal look towards the right because I wanted him facing the words so that when looking at the logo you notice the animal first and then leads you to who we are.
While making my logo I wanted to express strength, beauty and calmness.  Wanted to represent those certain feelings because hat is what I am about, therefore my company should also feel that way.
Out of all three of my final products I chose the 3rd logo with colour because it expresses the company the most and expresses more feelings then the grayscale one and line one. The third one is also more attractive to the eye and is more exciting.

Piano Maze

 

 The assignment was to create a rhythm where you could vary quality, type and position of the lines. In this piece I used lines with a variety of different sizes. They all go in the same direction but create an illusion. When I see this piece of work, I see three things. The first things I see are piano keys. Though it may be hard to notice. If you look between two separated thin lines, you will find a thick line in the middle, this reminds me of the black key in between white keys on a piano. The second thing it reminds me of is the picture of beats on a boom box. When you look at the small screen in the middle of a boom box, you can see many rectangles constantly moving up and down. The third thing it reminds me of is music, music because it is constantly flowing. My piece of work flows downwards in gentle zigzags. And in music the beats move from high notes to low notes. Though the beat is repetitive it still creates different sounds.

World Of Beats

 

 The assignment was to create a rhythm where you could vary the direction, quality, type and position of the lines. In this piece I used lines with a variety of sizes in many different directions. Because I am usually lost in music. I decided to make this art about me and how I feel the beats of music flow through my whole body as I listen to it, and how the whole world gets mixed into a bunch of complex beats and sounds. I created a person, though he does not look like me, I think he’s giving the same feeling. I covered him in repetitive beats (notice the repeating black and white shapes) to show that the music is flowing through his body. I added repetitive lines around him to show you that he his lost in a world of his own full of beats.

09/23/09

Today I am critiquing Goya's The third of May 1814 on its imitationalism. The painting is satisfying, though it is not excellent. Compared to the Mona Lisa,it is a pile of garbage. The painting is somewhat realistic. You can see the faces of the men and their shadows though their is not enough detail to see it clearly. The colours are a little too dark for example the lamp close to the soldiers feet should have more vibrant shades. Also the shading is not done correctly. Beside the man with his hands covering his face, there is a man who's face has no shade what so ever. It is entirely one colour and should be a little darker on the left side of the face. As an imitationalism I think this piece of art is worthy enough to be called pleasing.

09/25/09

Today I am critiquing Goya the Third of May 1814 on its emotionalism. This piece is excellent. The colors are very expressive and strong. The colors are mostly dark. The painting is filled with dark shades of blue, green, brown and black. You can actually feel the grief and sudden shock of terror that the painting is showing. In my opinion this picture is very very pleasing to the eye, mostly cause it tells a story and has a strong emotional response of grief and fear. This piece is excellent.

09/27/09

Today I am critiquing Goya's the Third of May 1814 from a formalists point of view. This picture has great balance, though there is a lot of negative space on the top of the art work, it eventually tends to just go with the piece. There is a lot of texture in this piece. Especially on the soldiers on the right. You can actually see the movement and texture of the mans cloths. I do not like the fact that the artist put a lot of texture around the soldiers but I can see why, the artist wanted to emphasis the soldiers. When you first look at this picture. The first thing you see is the soldiers and then the slaves. I think the piece could have been better. If the artist had added more building, the picture would have been a little more even. Altogether this picture is spectacular.

Cinnamons ART