Surrealism

So about Surrealism...
Dali is one of my favorite artists, from his paintings, Hallucinogenic Toreador and Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, to his films, "Destino" the short film collaboration with Disney (available to watch on youtube) and the short "Un Chien Andalou" (available on Netflix).  The amount of posters I have of his works is rather alarming. 


I'm a sucker for Surrealism, but that is not necessarily the case for all students in grade school.  How do you explain their methods of reason to a child? One method would be through play.  Everyone loves to play a game, and as it happens, the Surrealists created such games for themselves as exercises in automatic writing: The Exquisite Corpse,  Question and Answer, Conditionals, etc.  These are all played collaboratively, with two/ three or more people.  Everyone is assigned one part or element of the game and the words comes together to form witty and clever statements.  


I actually played The Exquisite Corpse in a college English class, a game where each person comes up with one part of the sentence structure:


      article determinator/ adjective/ noun/ verb/ article determinator/ adjective/ noun.
ie:  The / exquisite/ corpse/ will/ drink/ the/ red/ wine.


So in class, we counted off and the professor assigned us the matching element so that the class could write several lines in order.  Here are three lines of what we came up with:

An electric Billy reads under several blue boxing gloves.
The beautiful pen bounces his horrendous frog sideways.
Two hundred ugly desks run below her pink pimple.