Introduction to Surrealism
8 Week Class | This course has been canceled
Introducing Surrealism techniques into your practice is a profound way for visual artists to liberate the psyche and tap hidden reservoirs of creativity. Surrealism can unlock creative artistic 'play' which can lead to powerful iconography that defies logic, interprets dreams, records the subconscious and allows for strange images and bizarre juxtapositions
This beginner / intermediate level course will focus on developing your scope and range as an artist by way of exploring classic Surreal investigative activities. This course will provide each student with a practical understanding of acrylic paint, brush handling, mark making as well as sound composition skills all while experiencing the spirit of spontaneity, dream-like scenes, symbolic imagery, illogical juxtapositions, visual puns and personal iconography.
This course will be taught using acrylic paint and techniques.
Note: There will be no class on October 9 due to the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Base Tuition: $365 + Material Fee: $25 = $390 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- To explore the concepts behind Surrealism
- Painting & Composition techniques such as Exquisite Corpse, Photomontage, Sifflage, Frottage, Collage, & Grattage
- To build on acrylic painting techniques, mark making and composition
- To include ‘play’ into your work to expand your possibilities
Drew Simpson
Drew is an artist and curator, balancing his craft between programming galleries in Berlin and Toronto. He is a past graduate of the TSA diploma program and has gone on to exhibit in NYC, Paris, London, Berlin, LA, Madrid, Cologne, Basel, Chicago, and Miami as well as being included in various Canadian institutions such as The Power Plant, National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta, Mendel Art Gallery and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Simpson’s surreal miniature paintings are renowned for being exceptionally detailed, precisely rendered and always paying homage to an invisible aristocracy. The appropriation of visual language in Simpson’s work is beholden to classic masters, yet they are full of modern anachronisms and images that defy one art historical context, but remain governed by the same concerns: mortality, elusive beauty and brutal truth.