Aaron Kaplan
Emulation Paper
ART 552
11/30/15
Emulation of Salvador Dalí
For my project I am going to emulate Salvador Dalí. He was a Spanish artist in the mid 1900s. His work was mostly paintings, but he did create sculptures and did live expositions. Dalí’s work is very surreal and imaginative. His use of everyday objects contorted and out of place really speaks to me. The melting clock is his most iconic object he uses in his paintings and sculpture work.
Dalí’s work can make people laugh or feel uncomfortable or cringe, but can also be strangely peaceful. I am going to attempt to create these waves of emotion and create thought provoking photographs.
I want to play upon his surreal ideas of time and other themes that are present in his work. I want to create a fantastical journey with my photographs. I have not felt that I have created a very cohesive body of work this semester, so I am excited to explore this idea of all my photos to be related in some way. And for those photographs to take someone through a journey.
I also want to utilize a lot of off camera editing. Which is something I have not really done in the past. I generally like my pictures to be as true to the the actual thing as possible. I generally edit to make the photograph look as I saw it. But. for this project I want to use different photoshop editing techniques like amalgamation.
During my process of taking creating sculptures, editing, and printing; I want to put myself in the mindset of Dalí. I want to really try and think like him. I believe that I can accomplish that even in the small amount of time that is given for this project. I am excited to take myself on the whimsical surreal journey, and I hope that my photos portray that journey.
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