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Exquisite Corpse is a game the surrealists artists created/ played to allow automatic thoughts. They played 2 different ways, one verbal to visual and the other visual to verbal.

involuntary actions and processes not under the control of the conscious mind—for example, dreaming, breathing, or a nervous tic. Automatism plays a role in Surrealists techniques such as spontaneous or automatic writing, painting, and drawing; free association of images and words; and collaborative creation though games like Exquisite Corpse.
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Exquisite Corpse

Published on Nov 23, 2015

Surrealist game to become verbal to visual and visual to vebal

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Exquisite Corpse

Surrealist game 
Exquisite Corpse is a game the surrealists artists created/ played to allow automatic thoughts. They played 2 different ways, one verbal to visual and the other visual to verbal.

involuntary actions and processes not under the control of the conscious mind—for example, dreaming, breathing, or a nervous tic. Automatism plays a role in Surrealists techniques such as spontaneous or automatic writing, painting, and drawing; free association of images and words; and collaborative creation though games like Exquisite Corpse.
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What is Surrealism?

Who are surrealist artists?
writings of psychologist Sigmund Freud

Surrealists who were involved or used Exquisite Corpse:
Andre Breton
Salvador Dali- Spanish artist
Max Ernst
Joan Miro
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unpredictability, chance, unseen elements, and group collaboration—all in service of disrupting the waking mind’s penchant for order.

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How did these artist's "play" Exquisite corpse?



In this process I want you to think about how you can use this in you classroom

I have used this activity to practice art vocabulary, and to spring board ideas of a specific theme.

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This is an example of the visual to verbal

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Writing connected to the Visual to verbal:

Create a description of your drawing by answering the following questions:

In present tense

What does if feel like to be here?

What do your eyes see?

What do you hear?

How does this place smell?

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  • create a theme
  • add your “Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adjective, Noun"


Articles and verb tenses can be added after the activity
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