Hoofdstuk 2 | A MESSY STILL LIFE

In the example, many cardboard tubes have been thrown together; it has become a mountain with the top somewhere in the middle. In this messy still life, only one tube is completely visible! I started the drawing with that one tube. You can only see part of all other tubes because of the overlaps.

Exercise: think of things that you can stack/throw together in a drawing. Make a whole pile or mountain of it. Of course you can also use the cardboard tubes again if you like.

In 1961 the Belgian artist René Magritte painted a whole pile of buildings on a large lawn. It’s a strange painting because in real life you don’t come across mountains of houses stacked on top of each other. And do you still call this a still life? Don’t they usually consist of objects on a table? Magritte liked to paint things that you can only encounter in a dream or fantasy world. In the next chapter you will see a few examples of imaginative stacks by elementary school students.