Munch + Dali = “Munchli”

The emotional style of Munch and the bizarre surrealism of Dali are a match made in heaven!

Info:

Edvard Munch lived from 1863 – 1944.  He grew up in Norway, but later lived in Paris and Berlin.  He went to school to be an engineer, but quit to be a painter.  He thought a lot of styles of painting were “too scientific” and decided to paint with emotion and color instead.

Salvador Dali lived from 1904 – 1989 in Spain. He was very good at drawing and painting realistically, but he liked everything (from his work to his clothes) to be as flashy and wild as possible.  Most of his work is Surrealism, which is kind of like painting dreams.

Age: 5+          Topic: art history          Duration: 1 hour          Supervision: low

Materials:

• 9” x 12” drawing paper
• pencil
• oil pastels

Step 1: Draw a weird surrealist picture in pencil.  An easy way to do this is to draw something really weird that might happen in a dream (like cats with bird feet or flying people), or to draw a person’s head where the hair turns into something (like The Three Sphinxes of Bikini).

Step 2: Decide how the picture makes you feel. Is it scary? Silly? Happy?  What colors go with those feelings?

Step 3: Use long loops and scribbles of your chosen colors to fill in your picture.  Add some long stokes of an opposite color (see color wheel) in each section of the picture.

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