Posted on November 21, 2021
This is an update of my post published on November 21, 2010:
Rene Magritte was a Belgian artist who was born on November 21, 1898. Rene Magritte was a surrealist. Like other surrealist art, his paintings were surprising, unexpected, humorous in some cases, and (of course) surreal.
The idea of surrealism is to look at ordinary things in different ways.
Magritte made portraits of men in bowler hats—portraits with a weird twist that always hide the faces. For example, in one painting an apple hangs directly in front of the man’s face.
Magritte also painted scenes in which the foregrounds were mixed in with the backgrounds, and he even painted some paintings of paintings.
Check out the short Magritte article at Art Smarts 4 Kids and click all the links to see these and other Magritte awesomeness.
Art Smarts 4 Kids also has an idea for making a Magritte-style picture here.
One of Magritte’s paintings was called Personal Values. It looked like a room with various items—each drawn to a different scale—inside.
Use the picture as inspiration to make your own Personal Values poster—either draw, painting, or collage pictures of things that are important to you.
Browse some Magritte images here.
Also on this date:
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Slava in Serbia
Actress Marlo Thomas’s birthday
World Hello Day
Alascattalo Day in Alaska
North Carolina’s statehood anniversary
Anniversary of Ole Rømer’s presentation on measuring the speed of light
Red Mittens Day in Canada
Mother Goose Day
(Sunday before Thanksgiving)
Plan ahead:
Check out my Pinterest boards for:
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November holidays
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November birthdays
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Historical anniversaries in November
And here are my Pinterest boards for:
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December holidays
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December birthdays
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Historical anniversaries in December