Kevin Clifford/Nevada Appeal Carson City High School senior Kimberly Zink, 17, shows off her artistic talent by painting a surrealist flower on plexiglass in her home Friday afternoon. Zink did her senior project on surrealist art and she received an "A."
When Kimberly Zink, 17, began her senior project at Carson High School, it meant a trip into the surreal world to try and pin the art style down.
"Surrealist art can be done in any of many different mediums," she said. "It's not just painting and drawing. It's sculpture, too. It can be."
Not only did she spend ample hours researching surrealist art, she discovered that it really took off in the 20th century, especially after World War I. She also found two surreal artists that she liked the most: Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte.
"They were the most famous, and everyone knows most about them. I didn't know anything about them," she said.
For part of her project, she completed and displayed 14 surreal art pieces of her own at Carson High School. Two have since been sold.
"(Surrealism) is very lenient," she said. "You can do anything you can want basically, and it's always right. There's no right or wrong way to do it."