Discuss what is real and what is imagined. Books on the Surrealists and Dadaism can be borrowed from the Public Library. Teacher Resource Center at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts has reproductions available for teachers to borrow for a two-week period. Call 581-3580 for a list of available reproductions. They should express their own opinion about the piece and how they feel about trying to come to some consensus about their common ideas.
Aesthetics Use the statement below to start a debate on aesthetics.
It looks just the same as the Dali piece but you painted it. Explain that inventions like the telephone and automobile were once only in someone's imagination. You can study such inventors and then have the students think up their own invention, and even try and make it. It was once thought that the world was flat. Once it was a dream for him to travel to another land.