Studio (390-0-23)

Topic

How to Draw Like a Surrealist

Instructors

Jeanne Dunning

Meeting Info

Kresge 1410 Art Flex/Seminar: Mon, Wed 5:00PM - 7:50PM

Overview of class

The Surrealists loved to experiment with any and all of the weird techniques for creating an image that they could come up with. They played many variations of the exquisite corpse game, they combined collaged elements, ink blots and drawing, they incorporated chance operations, they engaged in automatic drawing, they turned text into images, and they invented drawing techniques using frottage (rubbings), fumage (drawing with smoke), Rayographs (photograms) and decalcomania (image transfers). In this course, we'll experiment with many of these techniques and, in the Surrealist spirit, we'll try to come up with some of our own. The Surrealists' approach was more often characterized by an "anything goes" embrace rather than by heady criticality or judgment, and this course will focus more on doing and exploring than critique.

Class Materials (Required)

Course costs will vary with student projects.

Class Attributes

Attendance at 1st class mandatory
Undergraduate Students Only