Collage
For today's lesson we were tasked with making a collage, for this we could use any pictures that we wanted from a set of magazines that were provided for us.
During this lesson we were told about surrealism, this being a type of art and collage style, that aims to twist reality. In the collage variation characters and backgrounds are made up of everyday objects.
For our collage (picture above) we decided to use the surrealist technique for our collage based on an old fairy tale about the man who ate the white snake by the Grimm Brothers. The idea of this story is that a man ate a white snake and then gained the ability to speak to animals. Whilst on his travels he saved, some ants, some ravens and some fish, these animals then helped him in tasks he needed to perform to marry a princess.
After reading this fairy tale we decided the best way to recreate it would be through the use of surrealism, due to the drug like effect of eating the white snake, to us it seemed like it was a hallucination.
So we took the base characters of the story being the man, the princess and the animals. We then looked through magazines and used different textured images to create the characters, for example we used strawberries for fish and the letters A, N, T for ants.
Personally I think this works well because it allows for different interpretations of reality so anything can be seen as anything.
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