Hoofdstuk 3 | IMAGINARY STILL LIFE

I drew an imaginary mountain of cardboard tubes. In this messy still life, only one tube is completely visible! Of all the other tubes, you only see a part because of the overlaps.

Exercise 1: Try to draw an imaginary pile or mountain of tubes or other objects. The pile or mountain can fill your entire paper.

Here are some examples of primary school pupils (approx. 9-11 years old). I like to see how children sometimes give an original twist to an assignment. Ultimately, your imagination is more important than my assignment.

In 1961, Belgian artist René Magritte painted a whole stack of buildings on a large lawn in the open air. It is a strange painting, because in real life we ​​do not encounter houses stacked on top of each other. And still lifes usually consist of objects on a table, don’t they? Magritte’s painting is actually more of a landscape than a still life. But who cares. Magritte liked to paint things that are not right, things that you only encounter in a dream or fantasy world.