Jerry Uelsmann

Jerry UelsmannJerry UelsmannAmerican Born, 1934-

Gainesville Resident

A analogue photographer with surrealist inclinations and a photoshop aesthetic done completely in the dark room with multiple exposures and negatives.

““My creative process begins My creative process begins when I get out with the when I get out with the camera and interact with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested There are just uninterested people.” people.”

and he taught at UF, still lives in Gainesville and is married to artist, Maggie Taylor.

So if you remember…

Surrealism is an avant-garde movement in art and literature in the 1920’s that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.

Some common surrealist techniques are…

Minification/MagnificationMultiplication

FragmentationMetamorphosis

TransferenceDistortion

Minification /Magnification: Something is made to appear smaller/bigger than expected.

Multiplication: Repeating images or forms within a composition

Fragmentation: Splitting or fragmenting objects or images. The subject may be either partially developed, fragmented, or dismembered.

Metamorphosis: Something in a progressive states of change.

Transference: The intrusion of an object or element into a space or environment not normally its own; the displacement of an object or elements into a new situation.

Distortion: the use of latent or hidden images; obscuring the qualities of an object

Apply the six common surrealist techniques to the following images.

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E.

F.

M.C. Escher

G.

Rene Magritte

H.

Man Ray

I.

Dali

J.

K.

L.

Kiki Smith

Frida Kahlo

M.

Mark Ryden

N.

Ron Mueck

O.