Topic 8 & 9 - Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality." Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself and/or an idea/concept.^{[1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism)}

Max Ernst, The Elephant Celebes (1921), Tate, London

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We indeed had fun coming out ideas to do beyond of what is normal.

Having the head spinned at 180 degree.

A person with more than 2 arms ?

a headless women having a long thoughts...

hair in the midst

The ONE

Excitement

the PIMP

Deamer

Topic 6 & 7 - Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped Modernism was the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.^[2][3]

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism)

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Around TAFE we went capturing the style of modernism.

the colour, the structure, the simetrical

the angle of my shot is bottom up towards the light that lids up the surface of an aluminium

LED lights is one of the modern technology that are wide used in all electrical appliances.

The combination of steel plat with holes and LEDs gives out a unique look.

The architectural design impacted the tidiness and safety in our thoughts.

Topic 5 - Pictorialism - Photoshop

Using just the Adobe Photoshop to create a dramatic effect of pictorialism.

Images downloaded off Google Image:

Valerii Tkachenko

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_city_landscape_at_sunrise_(8121353366).jpg)

Inthename-Stock

 (http://inthename-stock.deviantart.com/art/Antique-Texture-1-71195517)

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| OBJECTIVE |

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| Step by Step |

 Import image and texture effect

 Applied Noise

 Applied Motion Blur

 Show Texture layer with Overlay blending

 Applied Hue & Saturation

 Applied Curves for dramtic look

 Create a Vignette look using gradient

| F I N A L  |

Pic 4 - Pictorialism Day 3

Another task on Pictorialism, using Adobe Photoshop to create the effect. I took a close up shot on texture and a shot of a landscape view. Both combined in Adobe Photoshop and created layers of effects such as adjustment to brightness/darkness, blur effect, colour effect etc.

Here is the final !