AP Drawing Breadth 6, Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition is collage, which means placing one image in the context of another. Juxtaposition can also mean relating one idea to another; this is conceptual collage. In both cases, the juxtaposition constructs meaning by setting up a relationship between the entities that are put together. This is a relationship based on a shared concept. When we see these entities together we search for and discover that concept that links them.

 

Assignment:

Create a work of art related to an unusual juxtaposition. Consider concepts and items that normally wouldn’t be seen together. Look at the surrealists and modern day illusionists for ideas. Remember that according to André Breton, who published "The Surrealist Manifesto" in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely, that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in "an absolute reality, a surreality." Surrealism and juxtaposition art also plays with scale and emphasis, making the relationship between objects unusual and out of normal scale.

Student Concentration using juxtaposition
http://apstudioartatwoodstock.blogspot.com/2011/11/concentration-surreal-juxtaposition.html

Juxtaposition: Joining two or more images to create a new image.