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Girl Power! Making Surrealistic Landscapes Inspired by Salvador Dali

May 3, 2024 By Debra Disman

In what I am calling my “Girl Power” after-school artmaking class (“Making Art Inspired By Great Artists!), my group of seven power artmakers are hard at work creating surrealist landscapes inspired by artist Salvador Dali.

They learned about the concepts of horizon , vanishing points, perspective and scale ad used them to establish and landscape then develop it into a personal, surrealistic world.  It was fascinating to watch.  For our next class, they will be adding images from magazines to complete their works and add another layer of surrealism to them and learning about the artform of collage in the process!

What a marvelous group. Brava!


Intensity, care, creativity, connection, learning, what else is there?

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Student Work, Teaching Artist, Uncategorized Tagged With: Afer School Arts Enrichment, After school art class, After School Art Classes, After School Arts programs, Arts Enrichment, City of Santa Monica Youth Office, Collage, CREST, Dali, Distance, Drawing, Drawing Faces, Girl Power, Horizon Line, Landscapes, MAKING ART INSPIRED BY GREAT ARTISTS, Perspective, Print Media, Salvador Dali, Santa Monica Public School After School Enrichment, Scale, Surrealism, Surrealistic Landscapes, Teaching Artist, Vanishing Point

Up the Down Road of Surrealism with Dali!

November 21, 2022 By Debra Disman

In our “Making Art Inspired by Great Artists” CREST Enrichment class,
students are inspired by the Surealist Artist Salvador Dalí!

Students in grades TK- 5th learned about Surrealism, and how to use perspective, scale,
horizon lines and vanishing points to show space and distance, then developed their compositions into surrealistic scenes adding images from magazines to create focal points and a sense of layering.

Creativity abounds with these kindergarteners through fifth-graders!
Each travelled their own road through the project, as they will continue to do in Life.

         

Filed Under: ARTISTS, Student Work, Teaching Artist Tagged With: After School Art Classes, Art Enrichment, Building, Cityscape, Collage, CREST, CREST Enrichment, Dia de los Muertos, Horizon Line, K-5 Students, Landscape, MAKING ART INSPIRED BY GREAT ARTISTS, Ofrenda, Perspecitve Drawing, Perspective, Salvador Dali, Santa Monica Art Classes, Santa Monica Public School, Santa Monica Public School After School Enrichment, Santa Monica School System, Scale, Surrealism, Surrealistic, Vanishing Point

Dancing with Dali: Perspective, Scale and Surrealism!

November 9, 2022 By Debra Disman

In our “Making Art Inspired by Great Artists” CREST Enrichment class,
students are inspired by the Surealist Artist Salvador Dalí!

Students in grades TK- 5th learned about Surrealism, and how to use perspective, scale,
horizon lines and vanishing points to show space and distance, the developed their compositions into surrealistic scenes!

The Dia De Los Muertos OFRENDA provided an inspirational backdrop to their creative endeavors!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: After School Art Classes, Art Enrichment, Building, Cityscape, Collage, CREST, CREST Enrichment, Dia de los Muertos, Horizon Line, K-5 Students, Landscape, MAKING ART INSPIRED BY GREAT ARTISTS, Ofrenda, Perspecitve Drawing, Perspective, Salvador Dali, Santa Monica Art Classes, Santa Monica Public School, Santa Monica Public School After School Enrichment, Santa Monica School System, Scale, Surrealism, Surrealistic, Vanishing Point

Space and Surrealism through Salvador Dali

May 30, 2022 By Debra Disman

In our “Making Art Inspired by Great Artists” CREST Enrichment class,
students are inspired by the Surealist Artist Salvador Dalí!

Students in grades TK- 5th learned about Surrealism, and how to use perspective, scale,
horizon lines and vanishing points to show space and distance!


They drew out their horizon lines, set their vanishing points, added their roads or other content…

then developed their compositions through drawing and collage techniques using images cut from repurposed magazines,

creating fantastical landscapes or cityscapes employing  perspective, while exploring their own interests in the process.

Students blended techniques of representation and fantasy through use of scale, image, space and color,

to create imaginative and whimsical Surrealistic works which we hope will stand the test of time, and reinforce their learning.

There’s nothing like learning through FUN!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: After School Art Classes, Art Enrichment, Building, Cityscape, Collage, CREST, CREST Enrichment, Horizon Line, K-5 Students, Landscape, MAKING ART INSPIRED BY GREAT ARTISTS, Perspecitve Drawing, Perspective, Salvador Dali, Santa Monica Art Classes, Santa Monica Public School, Santa Monica Public School After School Enrichment, Santa Monica School System, Scale, Surrealism, Surrealistic, Vanishing Point

Inspired by SALVADOR DALI!

March 7, 2022 By Debra Disman

In our “Making Art Inspired by Great Artists” CREST Enrichment class,
students are inspired by the Surealist Artist Salvador Dalí!

Students in grades TK- 5th learned about Surrealism, and how to use perspective, scale, horizon lines and vanishing points to show space and distance!

They drew out their horizon lines, set their vanishing points, added their roads,

and developed their compositions through drawing and collage techniques using images cut from repurposed magazines.

They created fantastical landscapes in which perspective can be clearly seen.

Despite having to wear face masks throughout, students inspired themselves and each other.

Students blended techniques of representation and fantasy through use of scale, image, space and color

to create fantastical, imaginative and whimsical Surrealistic works which hopefully, will stand the test of time, and reinforce their learning.

Bravo!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: After School Art Classes, Art Enrichment, Building, Collage, CREST, CREST Enrichment, Horizon Line, K-5 Students, MAKING ART INSPIRED BY GREAT ARTISTS, Perspecitve Drawing, Perspective, Salvador Dali, Santa Monica Art Classes, Santa Monica Public School, Santa Monica Public School After School Enrichment, Santa Monica School System, Scale, Surrealism, Vanishing Point

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