Rene Magritte --- Personal Values

Personal values!

  This work depicts a room with familiar everyday grooming objects, commonly found in the bourgeois Blegian home, are arranged in a seetig seemingly ordinary. However the objects are not drawn to proportion, positioned in a seemingly accidental yet careful way. The room has walls with images of the clouds and sky, making the room look as if it is floating in the sky, drifting and there's a endless boundary. In the room, the only objects that is of proportion is the bed and armoire. She does not depit fantasy imagery, but sought t evoke the strangeness and ambiguity latent in reality. She depicts the relationships between the objects in a way that most will not, justaposition of unrelated imagery.
As for the symbols within the image, i believe all of us know it and i'm not going to repeat it~ so here's the website for the details:
http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/interactive_features/53#
The unproportionate objects in the room are sized very close to a humans which makes the objects look like unwelcomed guests in the room. The unusually large scale of these objects forms an invasive presence who threatens our comfortable familiarity. The room also lacks a human touch, too neat and sterile. The objects also stands errily at attention, not welcoming at all.
However, for me, the reason this surreal painting catches my attention is due to the fact that it is painted in such a realistic way but in an impossible setting. The oversized objects makes our mind immediately classify it as unreal. However the detail in which it is painted so real, makes us hesitate and ask: is this really possible. And to me, this is what makes a painting truely surreal. The painting, almost photorealistic, from the perfect reflection of light on the wine glass and on the mirror, to the tiniest cracks on the celling, it make the impossible setting look very possible. I think this painting is the perfect example of a surreal painting and it is very sucessful in telling us its message. It uses very simple images just like a great story told in simple words. Less is more. The room in perfect proportion, perspective and scale keeps the painting balanced between the real and the unreal, making the painting surreal.

I wanted to cry while doing this work, because it took me four times just to get the picture taken... i had to do the setup four times after keeping all the objects back into its original spot 3 times!!!!!!! D:::::::: BUT ITS DONE NOWWWW FINALLYYYYYY

AND HERE'S MY WORKKKKKK
 i took the pictures with four different lightings
-edit- HEY THE PICTURE ACTUALLY MATCHES MY BLOG SKINNNNN

Normal room light

Lamp light

i like this the best!! The orange tint really suits the image

Room light from the right

All the lights!!!

This work is a photograph. Since i mentioned that Rene's work is very photorealistic, i thought why not make mine a photo? So i went around gathering objects that are of abnormal proportion and found these and i slowly built up my message as i found these objects. The background is actually an image made for the BJDs (ball-joint dolls) i had. So naturally, it is of a smaller size, made to fit the proportion of a doll round 60cm tall. I choose to use this background instead of my room is because ( it looks cooler) the single sofa/chair/couch represents the fact that im the only child in the family and sometimes because of that i feel loney, as shown by the dull gloomy mood of the background. The brown book would obviously represent studies and its one of the bigger objects. The bigger the object is, the more importance it is as of now. Together with the huge pencil, they both would refer to my studies and the importance of it. The pencil (just like Rene's wine glass) stands errily in the center, and you can say that sometimes, i dread studying and it is just unwelcomed like how the pencil looks out of place like an unwelcomed guest. The little dress at the back seems to be forgotten in a corner and this symbolizes my hobby---- cosplay!! It has been a very long time since i last cosplayed and i guess the little dress ( from my small BJD) would represent that this hobby of mine is now pushed back by other priorities. Next would be the tiny stack of books. Well if you look at it with the bigger book, you can say no matter how important you see studies as, big or small, its EVERYWHERE!!! And following that would be the small earphone (once again from my dolls) they symbolizes my love for music and how i cant go anywhere without my earphones. They are small hence also showing how little time i can spend listening to them now. Lastly, there is this tiny blue book ( a key chain) and tiny colour pencils ( these are real color pencils!! cute isnt it) . They represent my love to sketch and draw in my free time and since i dont have much of this free times anymore, it is slowly forgotten and left behind.... So this is a rough explanation of my work!!

And i know all of you are really interested in what it looks like behind  the scenes!!!!!

The magic shall be revealeddddd......

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TAH-DAH!!!!

Its just a back-drop like thing stuck onto my wall with the funny sized objects placed on it~~ <33333