RENE MAGRITTE

SURREALISM

ABOUT MAGRITTE• Born in Belgium in 1898.• Surrealist painter.• Started art lessons at age 12. Featured in

an international art show at 13.• Worked as an adult designing wallpaper.

WHAT IS SURREALISM?• Surreal means “both real and un-real.”• Surrealism is a style of art that is very much

based on dreams.• Surrealist artists juxtapose unrelated things.

They are placed side by side.• In dreams your mind can create a strange world.

Surrealist artists wanted to try to capture that in real life.

Time Transfixed

The Tomb of the Wrestlers

Is this a giant rose or tiny room?

The False Mirror

What does Juxtapose mean, again?

Magritte used several motifs in his artA motif is a subject that repeats many times in often in the artist’s work.

The Sky

Man with bowler hatHidden faces

Golconda

OUR PROJECT• We are going to create our own SURREAL masterpieces!• We will paint a sky MOTIF. What does motif mean?

• Next we will create buildings.• Finally, we will add a surreal element and use repetition

by gluing on pictures of ourselves.