This document discusses the surrealist artist Rene Magritte and his use of one point perspective and size disparities to create impossible or surreal scenes that blur the line between reality and illusion. It provides examples of Magritte's paintings where he uses techniques like one point perspective and changing the relative sizes of objects to create impossible spaces or scenes that generate unusual feelings in the viewer. The document also contrasts one point perspective, which uses a single vanishing point, with aerial perspective, which manipulates elements like overlap, value, and size to create an illusion of depth.

1. Rene Magritte
Surrealism
And One Point Perspective

2. Surrealism
creates art in
which the
impossible
becomes “real”
through a
disparity
(difference) of
what we see
and what we
know about
reality!

3. What is “Disparity of Realities”
 Things that don’t make sense
together…
 Surrealists, like Magritte used
Realism in art to make things appear
to be true that could never be true in
real life.
 Magritte often used one point
perspective and size to create his
disparities!

4. How does size
create a disparity
in this painting?
(What in the
picture helps?)
What feelings does
it create?
How would it be
different if the tree
did not resemble a
leaf?

5. Perspective: The illusion of space
in a work of art
Aerial Perspective is One Point Perspective:
the use of size, The mathmatical use
overlap, or change in of a “vanishing Point”
value from light to in an work of art that
dark to create the is used by the artist
illusion of space in an to more formally and
artwork exactly create the
illusion of space in a
work of art

6. How is space
created in
this painting?
Is it Aerial or
One Point
Perspective?
How can you
tell?

7. What creates
the illusion of
space in this
artwork?
Can you identify
what is “wrong”
with this
picture?

8. What do you
think…Aerial
or One point
Perspective?
Give
examples to
support your
decision!

9. Is there a
vanishing
point
here?
What are
some ways
to find it?
Name
some
unusual
aspects of
this room
and
furniture.

10. Where would
the vanishing
point from this
painting be
located? Do
you think that
one point
perspective
helps this
picture seem
more real?

11. Find the
vanishing
point and
then
think
about
what is
“odd” in
this
painting!

12. Name some
of the
“everyday”
objects you
find in this
artwork…

13. Do you think it’s easy to find the vanishing point here? What do
you think is happening in this painting? Could you make a
similar work of art? What would you put in your room?
Have you noticed the one point perspective is used when
drawing buildings…aerials in the “outdoors”?