
Minneapolis Institute of Art & Surrealism

My visit to the Minneapolis Institute of Art was really amazing
and showed me a lot of different art that I have never seen
before. I also realized that I enjoyed looking at the art, and was
very interested by all of the pieces. I loved all the greek and
roman era pieces, as well as the sculptures that showed incredible
craftsmanship. Using the cameras while looking at the work was a
little awkward at first, but once I got used to photographing the
art it allowed me to look and appreciate the pieces in a new way.
I think that surrealism and dadaism is a little weird, and is
definitely not something that I personally relate to. I do,
however, understand the appeal and the reason behind it, to
protest societal norms.
The collage I made below is a combination of many different areas
and pieces from the museum. I think the collage is trying to show
a somewhat realistic, but more wacky and strange reality. The
first thing I did, which serves as the focal point, is to enlarge
and place a ceramic work through an atrium in the ceiling. This is
defiantly the most out there element, and is a good example of
transformation as it was changed to be much larger that normal,
and was rotated and cropped. The walls where coated in a piece of
art with stripes on it. I had to use the perspective transform
tool to morph them into fitting the contours of the wall
perfectly. This is an example of metamorphosis as I had to change
them to fit, and not just stick them on their in their original
aspect. I also used the head of Chuck Close, and the arm of
another sculpture to finish pieces missing these features in the
room. The ceiling is from another room, and was made with a
projector on the ceiling. This and the head/arms added in are
examples of dislocation as they have been moved significantly from
their original positions. Finally, I put in a view out of the
window inside of one of the alcoves. This project taught me a lot
about photoshop, and I got to learn more about the perspective
transform tool, as well as quick select, quick mask, and magnetic
lasso to cut out pieces of various photographs.