Chad Liberty

Phase 1 – The term collage was first coined by the Dadaist artist Kurt Schwitters to describe his works made from scavenged fragments of images, text and objects. We talk about the evolution of Dada into Surrealism and look at examples of Surrealist works from Salvador Dali, Meret Oppenheim, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Rene Magritte, and others. We'll discuss the philosophical aspects of what it means to be surreal. Each student will then create a surrealist collage using images harvested from the internet and composed using Adobe Photoshop.

Phase 2 – Students will bring their composition to LIFE in the form of a 7 second animation using Adobe After Effects and then explore adding sound to their compositions using Garageband software.