The reflections of fantasy and surrealism towards visual communication and illustration

In this thesis, fantastic and surrealist movement is being examined in terms of their definition through illustration as a visual language, their progress through out history as well as their interaction between one another. The research comprises five chapters, where four of them constitute as the main chapters as well as one which includes information for the visual implementation of the project. The first three chapters undertake fantasy, surrealism and illustration on each chapter. Each chapter includes information and captions that questions the historical progress processes, their specialities and sorts if any through a deeper approach. In the fourth chapter ,the relation between subjects are examined. Primarly the relation between fantasy and illustration and than surrealism and illustration is examined. Also works of various illustrators and designers who produced their works under this field has been placed as examples and information provided for the related works and their style. Last but not least the interaction of these three movements are mentioned. The effect of the visual perception been pointed out on the illustrations, at what point does fantastic and surrealist movements stand for and what their reflecitons create on human psychology. Further more, the position of illustration, fantasy and surrealism on the visual perception, whose factors has to be considered from psychological and sociological point of view. The fifth chapter includes the theme of the visual implementation and information for the project. In this section there is information about the author and the book titled "Alice in Wonderland" which is selected due to it's 150th anniversary. Historical information of the story, the creation stages of the author and hidden messages are undertaken within this section. There is also the introduction and information of the characters within the story. Last but not least, various examples of works created under different examples of illustrations made up to date by various illustrators as well as Sir John Tenniel who has made the original illustrations of the book has been shown within this chapter.