TRANSFORMATION:OPERATIONAL TECHNIQUES

Art Synectics

Adapted from

By: Nicholas Roukes

MAGNIFICATION

Spoonbridge and Cherry

Claes Oldenburg

The reconstruction of an object on a much larger scale.

MAGNIFICATION

Unknown Title

Tetsuya Ishida

The reconstruction of an object on a much larger scale.

MINIFICATION

Warning Line Does Not Matter, No.

Wu Wei

Making an object appear smaller.

MULTIPLICATION

GolcondaReneé Magritte

Repeating images or forms within a composition.

SUBSTITUTION

Hiding in the City No. 86 Lu Bolin

Changing the original qualities of objects and surfaces.

SUBSTITUTION

Hiding in the City No. 86 Lu Bolin

Changing the original qualities of objects and surfaces.

(In case you missed it, artist Lu Bolin camouflages

himself to disappear into his surroundings)

REVERSALS

The Madonna of Port Lligat

Salvador Dali

Reversing color, perspective, functions, size, or laws of nature.

FRAGMENTATION

Galatea of the Spheres

Salvador Dali

Splitting or fragmenting objects or images.

PARTIAL DELINEATION

Slaves

Michaelangelo

Presenting only a portion of the object in its finished state.

DISTORTION

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans

Salvador Dali

Changing an object or an image by deformation, distortion, or progressive states of degradation: burned, dissolved, decomposed,

crushed, cracked, etc.

DISGUISING

Wrapped ReichstagChristo and Jean Claude

The use of latent or hidden images; obscuring the qualities ofan object by wrapping, masking, or camoflaging.

The KissRenee Magritte

METAMORPHOSIS

Reptiles

M.C. Escher

Depicting an image in progressive states of change.

METAMORPHOSIS

Mi Esposa Desnuda

M.C. Escher

Depicting an image in progressive states of change.

TRANSMUTATION

The Wounded Dear

Frida Kahlo

A radical form of metamorphosis; creating Jekyll-and-Hydetransformations, mutation, alterations, hybridizations,

re-materializatons

SIMULTANEITY

I and the Village

Marc Chagall

Presenting several views or time modes simultaneously.

SOFT FOCUS

Abdullah’s Prayer

Maggie Taylor

Changing the focus on all or part of the image.

TRANSFERENCE

Le Temps Traversé

Reneé Magritte

The intrusion of an object or element into a space notnormally its own.

TRANSFERENCE

Woman Who Loves Fish

Maggie Taylor

The intrusion of an object or element into a space notnormally its own.

COLLAPSING VOLUME

Drawing Hands

M.C. Escher

Rendering 3D objects to appear flat, (or reverse, flat objectsto appear 3D)

ANIMATION

Some Roses and their Phantoms

Dorothea Tanning

Inanimate Objects can be made “to come to life”; subjectscan be given human qualities.

ANIMATION

L’Ange du Foyer

Max Ernst

Inanimate Objects can be made “to come to life”; subjectscan be given human qualities.

PROGRESSIVE IMAGE BREAKDOWN

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dali

Subjecting an image to treatment that deteriorates, obscures,or break down into simple shapes or patterns.

POSITIVE NEGATIVE REVERSAL

Standing Woman

Alexander Archipenko

Using the negative space to define an image.

POSITIVE NEGATIVE REVERSAL

Untitled

Jerry Uelsmann

Using the negative space to define an image.