5th Grade Surrealism

We started this semester off with a project on Surrealism. Characteristics of surrealism include: dream like, unusual and strange pairings. This was one of the favorite examples of Surrealism:

The yolk of the egg is actually a sun, the white part of the egg is actually a lake. The artist used strange pairings and unusual qualities in this artwork. We accomplished the same thing in our Surrealist project. The 5th graders cut out images from magazines and paired them together in weird or unusual ways. Along with the visual piece, students wrote a statement explaining what their picture was about. Examples below!