FND164 Core Visual Arts

Instructor: Alex Philips

Assignment: Working With Found Objects – Surrealist Transformations

Surrealism was an artistic movement that responded to the chaos of the First World War and the emergence of psychotherapy as a medical model that explored the recesses of the human psyche.

In this project students were directed to make a work starting with an existing object, that employed the Surrealist approach of radical juxta-positioning of unrelated images or things. They were encouraged to explore themes such as dreams, sex, childhood, games, death, mythology and chance that appear in many Surrealist works.

Cochise Seitcham

Elliot White

Bowen Zhu

Oliver Rinne

Aidan Neilson