Surrealism

My surrealistic painting is really personal. So I wouldn't know where to start. While all of these objects look randomly placed and stuck on a pretty background, that assumption wouldn't even come close to the meaning of this. Honestly when starting this unit, my general conception of surrealism was that it was a bunch of controted pictures of real objects. Even though this can be true, doing a surrealistic painting takes on an emotional toll if you paint from the "heart. I mean, Salvador Dali showed how he made a mockery of serious issues or took people, and objects that meant something to him and then transformed them, not randomly, but the way he saw them. My painting has many objects but I'll start with my landscape. THe base, the background of my painting shows pinks, reds, yellows and oranges, to show that, beyond all objects and aspects of life I know that somewhere that I'm still and calm, like the still ocean and sky. But I'm not that simple, and the vibrant colors show that I overcomplicate and color things in, not necessarily in the lines. THe card says 7 of hearts, shows a hand growing out of it; coincidentally the hand has 7 fingers, with a heart on each fingertip. Youmust think that it's a random freaky thing, but no, that week I went through an experience and through it all 7 people stuck my be. And I'd do anything for those 7 people. The hand reaching out shows that I reach out to these 7 people in their times of need, the bloddy fingerprints show that I leave traces of my lessons learned and who I am all over them. The target on my hand shows that there are outsiders who either get jealous or angry, and while they seem very sweet at first (hence, the flower) along the road, (the stem) the can hurt you and aim at you like you're some target (the target and arrow). I used water colors for the ocean and sky to show that even if I can be wild, it's all in good fun and with good intentions. I used acrylic For the fingerprints and the blood I used acrylic because the positive marks that I leave on people are significant and really stand out, in a way they are what you'd say "permanent". The hand is in black and white because with these 7 people, it's completely two absolutes, I either want to help them, or I don't. And it's always the first option because I love all of them. There aren't any in betweens or "what if's". The ballet shoes represent what I did when I was a child, I took ballet, it shows that inside I'm still a three year old, who doesn't always know what to do, and the right answer to say. I used pastels to show a soft effect, because while I can seem that I'm all tough and don't get hurt, I'm not. And the smoothness of the pink shows that I can be a graceful person sometimes. The ribbon shows that I'm so busy trying to help out my 7 people and care for everything and make everything perfect that I sometimes lose myself, which is why the ribbon is hanging losely. I've nearly lost it's grip and I'm barely trying to hang onto the three year old who had everything so easy.