Project on Surrealism based on Rene Magritte

1. Surrealism in Still Life
The surrealists were a group of artists like Salvador
Dali, Giorgio de Chirico and Rene Magritte, who were
making art around the 1920s and used their dreams
and imagination to compose strange and bizarre
compositions, often using recognizable ‘real’ everyday
objects.
Summary
You will be responding to the work of Rene Magritte
and creating a surreal scene involving personal objects,
playing with a sense of scale and proportion.
Task 1
Giorgio de Chirico Rene Magritte
In your sketchbook, divide your page into four and
draw four line drawings of different objects in each
box first in pencil and then go over them in pen when
confident about the shapes. These will be preparatory
drawings from your drawing study. See examples
below:
Task 2
Using your understanding of one-point perspective,
draw out a basic 3D room and, in pencil, lightly draw in
you objects changing the scale so that smaller objects
Salvador Dali
in life appear large in the room, etc.. Play with your
imagination!
Task 3 Homework
FInally, shade in your objects using a 2B or 4B pencil to Using personal objects from home, draw two objects, each filling half
get a strong range of tones/shades. a page of A4. Shade them in using a 2B or 4B pencil.