Making posters inspired by surreal classics.
For my final project, I am planning for the bedroom set to have posters, to make it really feel and look like a bedroom, it will only be when people get closer that they realise how bizarre the objects might be. Anyway, I wanted to make posters inspired by surreal classics.
Poster 1: Below, the poster is inspired by the films Un Chien Andalou, 1929, and Spellbound, 1945. Spellbound involves a dream sequence in which long curtains with various large eyes painted on are being cut through with a large pair of scissors (inspired by the scene in Un Chien Andalou where a razor blade slices through an eye). I came across a fashion magazine called BAZAR, a fitting name if you will, and one of the covers showed pairs of gloves lined up next to each other with an eye peering out through the middle. I had collected some kind of jewellery dish in a charity shop and I couldn’t get it out of my head, I had to include it into this piece. I wasn’t sure how but I had to. The editing process took place on PROCREATE as it is the one I am most familiar with. After a while I had found a placement I was happy with and chose to reveal the eye through the palm of the hand, creating a resemblance to the scene from spellbound – the eye peering through the curtains. I didn’t go in knowing what the hand would add or even what it would mean but some Surrealist works do just that and I feel as though it added a lot to the final outcome. Choosing to keep the hand as the only part in colour also suggests a significance ro the viewer, leaving up for interpretation.
The second poster is also inspired by Un Chien Andalou, throughout the film there are references to hands and ants. The repetition of hands in Un chien andalou is, to put it simply, a symbol of fetish: what hands can do and how they can generate both intense pleasure and intolerable pain. Through doing research, Dalí instilled a symbol into the world of surrealism through the depiction of the ant. When he was 5, Dalí saw an insect carcass getting eaten by ants which is why he used it as a symbol of human mortality in the world of surrealism.
I want to use these images as posters for the instillation or as book covers for accessories of the room, so I need to experiment on photoshop to see which would make more sense for the instillation.
My surreal world 