I am really impressed by the children’s art work based on Salvador Dali’s surrealist art.  I wonder how many ‘surreal’ or strange things you will notice in our pictures!

Creating long-legged animals (like Dali) has been a favourite of the class.  Look out for all the other details like shadows, tiny silhouettes of people, insects, clocks and stunning backdrops.

 

 

Look how cleverly Oliver has incorporated musical instruments into his picture below.

 

Look very closely at all the little details that make the following picture ‘surreal’.  I love it!

 

I love how Noah has been inspired by Dali’s clocks and has incorporated them throughout his picture.  The sun, the mountains and even the snails are made up of clocks.

Dali’s elephants are usually depicted with long, multi-jointed legs and carry objects on their backs.  These elephants represent the future and are also a symbol of strength.

Today, we tried our own Dali elephants.   Here are a few examples:

One of Salvador Dali’s most famous paintings was ‘The Persistence of Memory’ which was painted in 1931.  Dali wanted it to make us think about the passing of time, our memories and dreams.

We spent a long time discussing what we could see, what was strange/surreal about it, the colours and how it made us feel.

We then had a go at recreating the melting clocks in our sketch books.  Here are a couple of examples:

For art week, our artist is Salvador Dali whose style is surrealism.  Surrealist means ‘beyond reality’.  Surrealist art is an expression of dreams and the unreal rather than something that is true and rational.

Dali’s appearance was often an art performance in itself and his moustaches were the talk of the town.  They were flamboyant, and were seen in a variety of shapes and sizes, sometimes even decorated with flowers.

We sketched portraits of Dali and had fun creating different styles for his moustache, using black pipe cleaners.