Paper Mache

I did two flamingos i made them with Styrofoam,paper, and tissue paper

elements of art

Metal tooling

I did a turtle with designs on its shell 

Plaster subtractive sculptures

It didn't end up how I wanted it.
But it kinda looks like a table upside down.

CARBOARD BAS-RELIEF SCULPTURE

The artworks name is The Unexpected Answer by Rene Magritte it was created in 1933 during the surrealism period. Surrealism was a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality".

It was mainly made with warm colors but a lot of black was used in the center of the painting. The shape that’s in the center looks like it can be the outline of a woman or two people hugging. The picture has mostly straight lines with sharp squared corners. The only line that’s different is the outline on the door and the door knob. There is also depth in the middle picture where its mostly dark.

I think this paintings meaning would have to do missing someone or two people because they left home. since the figure on the door looks like two people hugging but then there not there even though you wish they were and there is a hole on the door of a home and the hole is dark I think that would represent the hole that they left in the home when they left but they might have left with no reason. I also think this because it is a surrealism paining and the aim of those kinds of paintings are to resolve contradictory conditions of dream vs reality. It could also just be a love for mystery And the name of the painting is the unexpected answer and one of his most famous quotes is  “The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.” 

Whatever the true meaning of the art is I think it was very thought out with a lot of meaning. It doesn’t have a lot of details. In my opinion I think it doesn’t have any extra details is because he wanted the door to stand out, make a statement, and send a message to people who saw  it.  

Dream board