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Painting unrealistic things: Salvador Dali 

by Soo Song

Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist. He painted dreams, fantasies, and random objects

such as clocks, clouds, or elephants in unnatural ways.

In his paintings, a clock is melting, clouds look like faces,

or elephants have long legs like a giraffe.

He combined things and created new places and creatures that cannot exist in the real world.

People called this kind of painting style “surrealism”.

Surrealism was an art movement where an artist drew unreal things in real-life settings.

Salvador Dali’s paintings offered inspiration to many other artists. 

This video explains the meaning of surrealism and introduces other surrealistic artists. Enjoy!

 The artist Salvador Dali

These are Dali’s surrealistic artworks!

 

Art Activity 

Let’s create an unrealistic animal creature like Dali. 

Materials: a piece of white paper, pencils, an eraser, crayons, or colored pencils. 

Instruction: 

1. Think of three different animals.
2. Fold the paper evenly into three sections.
3. Unfold the paper and place it vertically (hot dog style).
4. Draw the head of one of the animals you chose in the top section of the paper.
5. Draw the body of the second animal you chose in the middle section of the paper.
6. Draw the third animal’s feet in the bottom section of the paper.
7. Color! 

This is the instruction video. Watch it and have a fun time drawing! 

Make a Surreal Animal