The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg recently held its second annual statewide competition of surrealistic art, open to students in middle school and high school. The competition was titled “Change is Strange” and will be on exhibit from June 6 to Sept. 1.
The theme of the exhibit plays on the idea of metamorphosis, which was a constant element in the work of Salvador Dali.
Students in Ms. Laura Wortzel’s Photoshop Elements class at Polo Park Middle School studied surrealism, a school of art that creates a world where even the most seemingly insignificant occurrences of everyday life can be transformed in order to surprise, to be made strange, comical or even shocking.
Polo Park Middle School Photoshop student Bianca Cristea came up with a whimsical play on words and created an art piece titled “The Moon On The Man.” Cristea took a high-resolution photo of the moon and pasted it onto the head of a portrait of George Washington.
In a fierce competition in which 250 students, mostly of high school age, submitted work, only 80 pieces were selected. Cristea was accepted to exhibit her work and was invited to the gala opening and award ceremony on June 28.
ABOVE: Polo Park Middle School student Bianca Cristea’s art piece titled “The Moon On The Man.”
