This document provides instructions for an art assignment asking students to create a minimum of two surrealist drawings incorporating disparate visual elements from unrelated photographs. The pieces can be separate or combined into a diptych or larger multi-panel work. Examples are given of artists who have created diptychs, triptychs, or multi-panel works that either continue a single image or theme across panels or use independent images. Recommended drawing media include mixed media.

1. Disparate Elements
Contemporary Surrealism
Drawing from radically different
photographs

2. Begin in class and finish over break:
Minimum 2 pieces, each of which contains
disparate visual elements
2 pieces can be unrelated or
put together to form a diptych
(or do more than 2!)
Can use any drawing media including mixed, but
must contain drawing

3. Banksy

4. Jim Barsness

5. Anthony Goicolea

6. Peter Drake

7. Hong Liu

8. Patti Chandler

9. Hugo Simberg

10. San Francisco
Art Institute
Student

11. Daniel Bilmes

12. Creating a diptych or triptych
(or multi-paneled piece)
Image can continue from one piece to another,
but doesn’t have to

13. Wangechi Mutu
(Diptych)

14. Lee Jin Ju

15. Pamela Wineguard (Diptych)

16. Ida Applebroog – Diptych with different sized pieces

17. Frank Mujica (Diptych)

18. Tyrone Geter (Triptych)

19. Diane Victor (Triptych – note the acetate on middle drawing)

20. John Quick – Multiple panels

21. Claire Yarrington
(5 drawings)