Exquisite Corpse Lesson, One day Art lesson, Sub plan art class

1. Today’s Agenda
1.) Play the “Exquisite
Corpse” game as a table.

2. What is Exquisite Corpse?
• Exquisite Corpse is a table game
in which a group of people
cooperatively draw a person or
creature. Historically, it was
played by European artists
commonly called Surrealists,
beginning in the early 1920s.

3. • Surrealists Artists
– captured spontaneous images, welcoming the
idea of chance and results in fantastic bodily forms

5. How it works…
• In this process, a figure is drawn in portions,
with the paper folded after each portion and
passed to the next artist so that they cannot
see the earlier portions. At the end, the paper
is unfolded and the completed figure is
revealed.

6. Examples of Exquisite Corpse

7. How to Play…
1.) Fold your paper in half.
2.) Fold your paper in half, again.
(This should make 4 sections.)

8. Video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py_xXvJo
YcQ

9. Round 1:
Draw a Head
Round 2:
Draw the upper body
Round 3:
Draw the lower body
Round 4:
Draw a the feet