Max Ernst-Inspired Collage
Grades 4 and Up
Time Frame: 2 art periods
This project is inspired by collages by the Surrealist Max Ernst.
Aims:
• To explore the collage process
• To use old illustrations to create impossible scenes
• To create individual works that express absurdity, nightmares, the occult, etc.
Materials: Black paper or backgrounds from collected sources, copied, old illustrations from 19th Century books and ads copied, scissors, glue sticks, old phone books or magazines for gluing
Vocabulary: Surrealism, collage, overlapping, edge
Procedure: Give students pages of images to choose from. Students will make either their own backgrounds or start with one from your collection of images. (Ask me for a packet of originals to copy, if you are interested.) Show good cutting technique, by making clean edged cuts. Have your students move the paper, not their wrists! Show how to plan by working from the back forward. Demonstrate good gluing technique by putting your shape upside down on a page of the phone book and gluing around the edges of the shape. (The middle takes care of itself!) Smack down for a tight, clean bond and throw the page of the phone book away. Repeat for each shape. This way, no glue gets on the table and you get clean gluing.
Reflection/Follow-up: Share the work. Perhaps you can make a class quilt with one work by each student being put together in rows.
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