“ Dreams are a conversation with oneself, a dialogue of symbols and images that takes place between the

unconscious and conscious levels of the mind.”

David Fontana

Dreams

Many cultures believed that dreams came from an outside source like gods or spirits.Egyptian

Dreams carried messages from good or bad spirits

Dreams were opposites-happy dreams=disaster and nightmares=better times to come

When a person was having troubles in their life and wanted help from god, they would sleep in a temple, the next morning a priest, the Master of the Secret Things, interpret the dreams

History

Built special shrines to dream spiritsDreams were the result of outside

forces, such as the gods.Morpheus passed on warnings and

prophecies to people in their dreamsHypnos was the god of sleepAristotle- 

dreams are a recollection of the day’s events

dreams reflect a person's bodily health.

Greek

dreams were supernaturalover seven hundred mentions of

dreams in the Bible  many beilieved that God revealed

himself through dreamsMartin Luther- dreams are the work

of the Devil

Christian

looked to dreams for their next course of action.

Consciousness(soul) leaves the body during sleep and travels in other worldly realms

 If suddenly awakened, their soul may fail to return to the body. For this reason, some Chinese are wary of alarm clocks.

Chinese

Share the concept of a distinct dream dimension

Believed ancestors lived in their dreams and take on non-human forms like plants.

visiting and having contact with their ancestors.

helped to point their mission or role in life

Some Native American tribes and Mexican civilizations

Psychologists believe that dreams express the hidden workings of the mind.

Some believe that dreams are a way of dealing with conflict in life.Sigmund Freud-dreams are wish fulfillments or

expressions of repressed desires.Carl Jung-the mind contains symbolism drawn

on by all cultures in their dreams. “The Collective Unconscious”

Jung-dreams remind us of our wishes, realize the things we unconsciously yearn for, and help us to fulfill our wishes

Modern Ideas

Surrealists were fascinated with the unconscious.

Believed that Freud's theories on dreams, ego, superego and the id opened doors to the authentic self and a truer reality (the "surreal").

They liked the possibilities of chance and spontaneity.

ElementsDeep space-endlessAtmosphere-fog, mist, steam, smokeBizarre size relationshipsCombining elements that don’t belong together

Surrealism

The Nostalgia of the Infinite

GIORGIO DE CHIRICO 

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street. 

Swans Reflecting Elephants

Salvador Dali

Dali -

The Sacrament of the Last Supper

The Lovers

Rene Magritte

The Lovers

The Castle of the Pyrenees, 1959

The Portrait

 La Thérapeute. 

Personal values(Les valeurs personnelles)

AssignmentPhoto Composite

Create a digital composite image*All images must be your own!

It should tell a story or have a theme

Steps for photo compositeStep 1: Collect images

Background Landscape, interior

Focal point People, animals, objects

Use old photos or negatives and scanScan objects

Step 2: Design composition with the images you haveFocal pointFormat

Vertical or horizontal (background will decide if vertical or horizontal)

Horizon line Goes above or below center

Unity- repetition of art elements (repetition= 3)

Step 3: In Photoshop, create new document

10.5 X 8 (horizontal)8 X 10.5 (vertical)

Step 4: All images must have same resolution

Unclick resampleAfter changing resolution, re-click resample and three boxes

Change size in inches

Step 5: Select the background and paste on new documentStep 6: Select objects

To Change the size of an objectTransformMove tool, check transform controls

or Edit transform scale

Hold shift and drag from cornerStep 7: Move objects around to get best compositionStep 8: Add filters/change blend modes/adjust layer opacity/add texture