California State University, San Bernardino CSUSB ScholarWorks Curricula Curriculum Archive 2013 Hyper-Realism and Surrealism Community based Art Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cap-curr Part of the Art Education Commons Recommended Citation based Art, Community, "Hyper-Realism and Surrealism" (2013). Curricula. 15. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cap-curr/15 This Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the Curriculum Archive at CSUSB ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Curricula by an authorized administrator of CSUSB ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hyper Realist artist Denis Peterson’s work focuses on displacement, disenfranchised, comment on societies disregard for the homeless, genocide, and refugees. This painting is from his series THE WALL, depicting the homeless in Manhattan. DUST TO DUST, acrylic on canvas APOCALYPSE Watercolor on paper SELECTED PAINTINGS FROM THE "DON'T SHED NO TEARS" COLLECTION Painted in collaboration with the UN Refugee Agency, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and Yale Cambodian Genocide Project Acrylics and oil on canvas HOTEL RAWANDA Artist’s comment not on their suffering but on their spirit in a time of distress. Depicting the human condition in today’s contemporary culture. Through a contemporary painting HALFWAY TO THE STARS Acrylics on canvas Gottfried Helnwein Life like paintings on the human condition through these hyper realists artists. The human condition during a contemporary time. Narrative of the past, present, and future. Ron Mueck, from Australia works in the UK MASK II 2001-02, mixed medium, usually uses polyester resins and multiple molds. Used his own face for this piece. Life size scupltures Two Women, 2005, Mixed Medium BRAD SPENCE, of Age, 2013 Acrylic on canvas, 2013, Showtime and Good Symmetry/Bone Structure Distressed, 2013, Acrylics on canvas SABER, Opera Gallery in New York Graffiti and Fine Art, Mixed medium on canvas SABER, Eviction, Acrylic and ink on canvas, Signature /Caligraffiti. Signature take on the American Flag SABER, Purple Ripped Tags, Mixed Media on wood Panel • Surrealism: • Late 1910- early 1920, sought to release the imagination of the subconscious mind • Intellectual and political movement that involved psychological theories and dream studies of Sigmund Freud Andre Breton Manifesto of Surrealism “Art Movement in a revolution against a society ruled by rational thought, the surrealist tapped into the “superior reality” of the subconscious” The surrealist broke taboos and shocked viewers. Ending WWI and looming WWII. Salvador Dali the persistence of memory, 1931 oil on canvas. Surrealist exploration landscape of human psyche and dreams. The empty space human allegory where time has ended. Max Ernst 1924. Two Children Are Threatened By A nightingale Oil on wood construction Rene Magritte, 1928-29, the treachery of images. This is not a pipe. Dreamlike association of image and meaning. Goal of piece is to subvert the viewers reality of expectation and common sense. The viewers reliance of what is real and not. The conscious and the rational. Surrealist sculpture by Man Ray .