This lesson is an intermediate step to developing one's own body of work. The student will be able to apply basic handbuilding skills to an intermediate level project. Students will be able to understand the art historical development of Surrealism as a movement and its application to current contemporary art. Students will be able to apply basic understanding of color, to an intermediate level work, that indicates an understanding of how color enhances form. You may show slides of previous student's work- only the best work.
Slides have a bigger impact on the student's imagination than showing reproductions from a book.
Surrealism, critique, handbuilding, slab, coil, modeling, aesthetics, form, underglaze, glaze, kiln, vitreous temperature, complementary color, neutral gray. One already has the vocabulary at the intermediate level. The issue is to understand the aesthetic, thematic, creative, and technical issues and be able to articulate them verbally or in writing. The instructor will show slides and ask the students to name the surrealistic qualities that they notice. They will then access the International Sculpture Center website.