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Get your creativity going like the artists from the surrealist movement Surrealism was an art movement founded by poet AndrÊ Breton in the 1920’s. It went against pretty much everything the age of enlightenment
stood for, which was an intellectual and philosophical movement during the 18th century. Surrealists believed that the Age of Enlightenment had suppressed the qualities of the rational and subconscious mind. So their goal was to liberate thought, language, and the human experience from the oppressive boundaries of rationalism. They did this in a couple of ways. One of them was to play some art games to unleash their creativity:
Exquisite Corpse Many of us have actually played this one as kids. It’s when you and your friends take a piece of paper and draw something without the other person knowing what it is that you are drawing. You then fold the piece of paper and have the person next to you add a section to the drawing. This continues until everyone added something to it. What you then end up with is a collaborative, inspiring work of art. So why not play this game for old times sake and make use of the strangeness that comes out of it in your paintings!
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), André Breton, Yves Tanguy, and Max Morise, Exquisite Corpse, 1928. © 2018 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Like the exquisite corpse, one person would write a word and fold the paper. The next person writes a de nition to the word he cannot see! Another way of doing this is one person writing a question and the second person writing an answer to the question he didn’t see.
Telephone This is another children’s game that started with the surrealists! Remember how you and your friends used to sit in a circle and start by whispering one word in your friend’s ear with each person adding a word? This eventually then formed a sentence that comes out all weird because someone down the line misheard something. Use this another way to get your creativity going like the artists from the surrealist movement!
Putting random words in a bowl You can ask people around you to write any random word or phrase that comes to their mind. For instance; person one writes “rabbit”, person two writes “hat” and person three writes “chasing a lobster”, person four and ve also write something random. Without anyone seeing what the other person wrote, these words are then placed in a bowl. If you draw the words of person one, two and three, you could very well be painting a rabbit wearing a hat while chasing a lobster!
Automatic writing/drawing Another way to get your creativity going like the artists from the surrealist movement is to start drawing or writing without thinking about what you are about to write or draw. The idea is also to not stop in between. Just keep scribbling away! Surrealists used this as a way for the subconscious mind to start taking over.
Collage Play around with some newspaper/magazine cutouts! You can create some very interesting new realities with them! Surreal artist Max Ernst used this technique by grouping certain themes together, such as black and white imagery, for instance.
Frottage A great way to create some intriguing shapes is by taking a pencil and piece of paper and colouring the paper in on top of different textures. Jet Headed Gypsy – Get your creativity going like the artists from the surrealist movement – Top of Page
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