Hoofdstuk 3 | PILES

In 1961, Belgian artist René Magritte painted a pile of buildings on a large lawn in the open air. Only two facades are fully visible, the rest of the facades partially overlap. It’s a strange painting, because in real life we ​​do not encounter stacked houses on a lawn. Magritte’s painting is a kind of cross between a landscape and a still life. Magritte liked to paint things that only exist in a dream or fantasy world.

The pile of toilet roll tubes is actually constructed in the same way as the facades in Magritte’s painting. Here, only one tube in the middle of the foreground is completely visible (I started with that one). Of all the other tubes, you only see a part because of the overlaps.

Exercise 1: draw a pile of toilet roll tubes. Color the tubes if you like.

Exercise 1: Try to draw an imaginary pile of objects. The pile may fill your entire paper.

 Here are some examples of primary school pupils (approx. 9-11 years old).