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The False Mirror presents an enormous lashless eye with a luminous cloudswept blue sky filling the iris and an opaque, dead-black disc for a pupil.
The title presents limits to the authority of optical vision: a mirror provides a
mechanical reflection, but the eye is selective and subjective.
Magritte’s single eye functions on multiple levels: the viewer both looks through it,
as through a window, and is looked at by it, thus seeing and being seen
simultaneously.
The image jolts the viewer by removing
the eye from its usual context, presenting
it without the face to which it belongs. It
further disrupts expectation by placing a
circular sky inside the otherwise ordinary
oculus.
By replacing the eye’s iris with a blue,
cloud-filled sky in False Mirror,
Magritte challenges us to question
what we see and what we think we
know. Is the sky a reflection of what
the eye is seeing? Is the eye in fact an
opening into another reality? Are we
looking at an inner vision, or
something else entirely? One thing is
certain: Magritte’s False Mirror is an
invitation to look at the world
differently.
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The Eye of Surrealist Time" by Dali
Surreal
Odd
Illogical
Irrational
Exciting
Surrealist artists create paintings inspired by real images but they
change different elements to create a new painting with the same or
completely new meaning.
Characteristics of Surrealism
•Reaction to chaos of WWI
•Influence of Freud: Dreams
and subconscious
•Impossible
scale/size/proportion
•Reversal of natural laws
•Double images
•Juxtaposition
For your unit, “Eye am Surrealism”, you will be creating a
painting with an EYE as the main focal point, juxtaposed
with images that create a SURREALIST painting.
You can have more than one eye in the painting.
Surrealism is based on dreams so
your painting should evoke that
same concept.
You will learn how to draw a
basic eye but you must go
beyond that to show surrealism.
You will be using the primary
colors, black and white to create
all of your colors. You will use
blending techniques
Ideas for your Surrealist Painting
a) change the normal scale of objects
(ex: a car the size of a living room or bugs the size of people)
b) turn the accepted order of things upside down
(ex: dogs walking people instead of people walking dogs)
c) mix internal and external space
(ex: trees growing in a kitchen, seeing the inside and outside of
an object at the same time)
d) transform one object into another
(ex: a car turning into a fish, an animal turning into a person)
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