November 11th-Finishing Ferris Bueller and Photo Surrealism

At the beginning of class today you will have the first 20 minutes to finish your Ferris Bueller project and submit the jpeg onto your blog (INCLUDING a photo of yourself).

After you are done, if you have not watched the video from Wednesday you need to do that now.

Please respond to the following reflection on your blog.

Erik Johansson's work can be categorized into a genre of art called Surrealism, and specifically a sub genre Photo Surrealism. Photo surrealism takes the ordinary/known and merges it with the unknown. To do this successfully, it needs to be realistic enough to fool the viewer. Photo surrealism can deal with topics that arise questions in the viewer: social, environmental, cultural, etc.

1. For you, what creates the illusion of realism?

2. When looking at a photo, do you question it's authenticity? If so, when do you so? If no, do you believe photos are always a realistic representation?

3. What are Johansson's 3 rules to success when creating a surrealist photo?

4. Search the work of the most well-known surrealist, Salvador Dali, M.S. Escher and René Magritte. Which artist's works do you find the most interesting-what about it is interesting? Post a photo of the work (photo or painting) with a title and year. What do you think the work is speaking to? (write at least 6-8 sentences here)

PART II

Please watch the following video (only until 2mins and 50s....after that it is just an advertisement for Creative Cloud).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCdMjR4tYcM

For your final project that we will start next week, you will create a photo realism work that speaks to a current issue. You will take your own photo (or 2, 3 etc) , edit it appropriately in photoshop and then merge it with other sources (filters, adjustments, images from google, etc. )

Today I'd like you create to brainstorm a list of 5 ideas on your blog that you might create for your project. For the rest of the period, you can have fun experimenting with the possibilities of photoshop to see if your idea is "possible" or if you know the correct tools to get the job done.

Check our Erik Johansson's website for more inspiration: http://www.erikjohanssonphoto.com/