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Today's activities

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Use these questions to help you evaluate your work from today. Write your thoughts in your journal and don't forget to add the date.

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Information and today's activity

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Erwin Wurm One Day Task and evaluation guidance and extension activity

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Things to think about and be inspired by

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The end of project evaluation needs to be completed. Guidance for this is on the rotation overview sheet.

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The end of project evaluation needs to be completed. Guidance for this is on the rotation overview sheet.

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Neo Dada

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A style appearing in the United States in the late 1950s that in its methods and concerns recalls Dada, whose ideas were introduced to American artists by the composer John Cage.

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Lots of inspiration from contemporary artists who work with Surrealism

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Lots of inspiration from contemporary artists who work with Surrealism

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Contemporary artists, such as Glenn Brown and Inka Essenhigh, continue the legacy of Surrealism, creating works that draw upon psychoanalysis, free-association, dreams, and the unconscious. A cross-disciplinary movement lasting from 1924 to roughly 1945, Surrealism spanned painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, and film-and today's heirs of this art historical movement similarly work across media. For example, Canadian contemporary artist Marcel Dzama produces set designs for art film and ballet that transplant the viewer into a dark and fantastical universe; and Kim Keever takes swirling photographs that capture the element of chance. Not bound to a specific style, like their predecessors, contemporary surrealistic artists employ a wide variety of techniques to illustrate the fantastical mind of the artist.

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Contemporary artists, such as Glenn Brown and Inka Essenhigh, continue the legacy of Surrealism, creating works that draw upon psychoanalysis, free-association, dreams, and the unconscious. A cross-disciplinary movement lasting from 1924 to roughly 1945, Surrealism spanned painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, and film-and today's heirs of this art historical movement similarly work across media.

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One way to make a joiner using Photoshop

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One way to make a joiner using Photoshop

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With the help of photo merge getting creative in Photoshop is easy!

Software used: Photoshop CS4

Time taken: 15 minutes

Go to File>Automate>Photomerge. When the new window opens untick blend as we want the final image to have a collage feel to it and then click browse to find and select all the images you want to use. Once you click OK it may take some time for the software to process all of the images.

When the process is complete you'll see that all of your images have been overlapped to create a collage-style. If you're not happy with the way it looks try turning different layers on or off to see if they add or detract from the image. You can also make any adjustments to individual layers (brightness etc.) if you feel they need it.

To help each image stand out you need to add a shadow which you do by double clicking on individual layer or by clicking on the fx button at the bottom of the layers pallet. You can change the opacity, angle, distance, spread and size of the shadow. We changed the opacity to 62%, angle to 149 degrees and distance to 7px.

If you think your image needs more definition go to the fx menu again and this time pick stroke. Change the colour to white and change the size, opacity and position of the line. We had the stroke size at 3px, the position inside and the opacity at 23%.

You can go through each individual layer adding the stroke and shadow or if you want to use the same settings for each layer hold down the Alt key, click on the fx logo that's on the top layer and drag it onto the next one. Repeat this until all the layers have the logo on them.

Add a background colour to the image by creating a new layer (layer>new layer) and filling this layer with your chosen colour using the fill tool.

Final image with two different backgrounds:

You've read the article, now go take some fantastic images. You can then upload the pictures, plus any advice and suggestions you have into the dedicated Photo Month forum for everyone at ePHOTOzine to enjoy.

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How to make a photo collage/joiner in CS4

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With the help of photo merge getting creative in Photoshop is easy! Software used: Photoshop CS4 Time taken: 15 minutes Go to File>Automate>Photomerge. When the new window opens untick blend as we want the final image to have a collage feel to it and then click browse to find and select all the images you want to use.

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Resin paint 45 x 136 x 101 cm 2005 Courtesy Greith-Haus, St. Ulrich im Greith, Austria

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An overview of the rotations you will be doing.