Surrealism in Still LifeThe 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.

Giorgio de Chirico

Salvador Dali

Rene MagritteTask 1In 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:

SummaryYou 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 2Using 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 in life appear large in the room, etc.. Play with your imagination!

Task 3FInally, shade in your objects using a 2B or 4B pencil to get a strong range of tones/shades.

HomeworkUsing personal objects from home, draw two objects, each filling half a page of A4. Shade them in using a 2B or 4B pencil.