Thank you all so much for getting involved in this week's challenge. It was a tricky one but you have all risen to it and produced some wonderfully weird, brilliantly bizarre, super surreal art.
Click here to enter the exhibition and then read on below to find out more about the artists and their art as well as see some extra pieces that they created.
We start off the exhibition with a totally surreal picture from Rayyan and Yaseen's mum. In it she is showing herself and the boys home schooling. Yaseen is laying his head on an elephant trunk, lost in deep thoughts and his paper is a black hole. Rayyan gets distracted from working and knocks his chair over while running towards an anteater eating his cars. Meanwhile, their mum has used the idea of Magritte's 'False Mirror' in her eye which has a volcano erupting into her hair and down to her lips. There are also many other things going on in this scene.
Can you spot them all? (Some things have morphed into something else!)
It is great to see adults getting involved in our art club challenges. Remember they are open to everyone to have a go.
Larissa - Swan
Larissa has been working in school with Miss Beath this week, where she produced a fantastic homage to Magritte, by drawing an empty figure and filling it with his cloud motif plus some added sea and boats.
There are however some subtle differences - can you spot them?
Max - Waxwing
Max has created an amazing surreal collage, in the middle of which he appears to have morphed himself into a strange creature. By using his photograph and adding collage around it he has made a very strange and unusual world - how bizarre!
Can you name the creature that Max's head has morphed into?
Klaudia - Kittiwake
Klaudia has created two peculiar pictures this week.
The first is entitled 'A Magical Cat' and the second 'Dance On The Ice Rink'.
She has made her first picture all the more surreal by drawing your eye to her multi-coloured cat as well as shading only half of the picture.
Her ice rink picture is extremely bizarre and surreal.
Can you see why?
Martha - Friend of MG (& Doris!)
Doris hasn't provided her own challenge this week as she has been busy re-creating this classic Magritte work of art. Martha (Doris' assistant) has paid close attention to details and produced this amazing piece of work.
Can you see all the features that are in Magritte's original?
Rayyan - Year 1
Rayyan was full of ideas for this week's challenge. He first used Anthony Browne's morphing technique to create some weird and wonderful new creations. He has even done a portrait of his mum screaming when she stood on something. In it, her head is an orange, she has mouldy banana hair and one of her feet is a blueberry! He then went on to do his own versions of 'False Mirror'. The first features a spider's web and the second has dinosaurs with logs, trees and leaves for eye lashes.
Yaseen - Year 1
Yaseen was also inspired by Anthony Browne and morphed different household objects into something brilliant and bizarre. He has labelled them so you can see exactly what he did. He then created his own version of 'False Mirror' with a city inside the eye which includes Big Ben and his own house.
Yaseen and Rayyan - Year 1
Yaseen and Rayyan then went outside to do some large scale art work inspired by Magritte's 'Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe' as well as work they had been doing on the weather. Between them, the boys drew lightning, a cat, some rainbows, some dinosaurs, raindrops and a sunset. Finally they wrote 'This Is Not...' in French for each of their different images. Well done, 'Mini Magrittes'!
Jhael - Kittiwake
Jhael has created a superbly surreal picture featuring elements of Magritte (man in a suit, cloudy sky and the birds) as well as a rainbow spilling thoughts from the man's head in a mind outburst. Her tree looks as though it is coming to life while the person on the right hand side of the picture seems to be disappearing into pixels. There is so much to look at in this truly bizarre picture.
Ms Harris
Yet another first for Ms Harris this week when she used acrylic paint in her 'Egg Plant' picture. She called it this as the flowers have turned into fried eggs and the stems into legs and little feet. Once she had painted these she stuck on a picture of a chick looking up at the 'flowers'. She then took a photo and played about with different effects until she found one that made her original piece all the more surreal.
Aisha - Chiffchaff
Aisha was inspired by Magritte's 'False Mirror', changing the eye into a fish, inside which tadpoles are swimming in the water. A totally bizarre and surreal thing to do! Magritte would be proud!
What will happen to the tadpoles?
Faizan - Kittiwake
For Faizan's How Bizarre piece of art he has changed a volcano into a monster with its lava erupting from its mind like hair on the top of its head. He has also given the volcano human characteristics by making it look very angry indeed.
Rose
Rose used paint on a canvas to create this bizarre piece of art. She has used elements of Magritte in her cloudy blue sky. There are curious things going on in this painting which draw you in and make you question what is happening which is the sign of a great surreal picture.
Why is the staircase floating in space?
Why is the clock so important?
Rui Xuan - Grouse
In his art this week, Rui Xuan has used the idea of a game of Tetris but made it bizarre by his use of different shapes.
Are the pieces falling down towards the ground or going upwards towards the top of the console?
Yasmina - Swan
Yasmina has been working with Miss Beath in school where she produced this surreal creation. She has used the idea of a picture within a picture, like Magritte, but also added lots of other bizarre details. Can you spot these?
Ruibo - Magpie
Ruibo has drawn some superbly strange food doing things that food doesn't usually do to create this surreal world. There is so much going on in this picture so take your time to look at each part in detail.
Would you like your food to behave more like this?
Haaris - Nursery
Haaris, our youngest art clubber this week, used playdough to create this wonderfully bizarre creature.
What name would you give this surreal creature?
Ayla & Haaris
Haaris then went on to make some hand puppets with his sister, Ayla. They sewed pieces of felt together before sticking on some zany strange features. Totally surreal!
Ayla - Buzzard
Ayla has been busy creating many brilliantly bizarre pieces of art this week. She drew a picture of her family in the park with life sized butterflies. She created some superbly strange playdough characters including one in a top hat, just like Magritte. She also collected some leaves from the garden and turned them into little characters which she also did with the numbers one, two and three.
Ehsan
Ehsan created his own great version of Magritte's 'Son Of Man' painting.
How would you know straight away that he was inspired by Magritte?
Ms Harding
This week Ms Harding created her own mini homage to Magritte, entitling it in French 'This Is Not A Magritte', because it really, really IS NOT, although it has examples of his different motifs. She painted it, photographed it, then after a tip from Ms Harris, experimented with a few effects before deciding on a more surreal one she liked.
Swallow Class
Kacper, Kimarley, Nour, Marianna, Nyima, Nadia and Luqmaan have been working on some surreal creations with Coach George this week. They're not all finished, but we thought you'd like to see how they were getting on.
What strange and bizarre things can you see in each of them?
Thank you all for your unusual, curious, peculiar, weird, extraordinary,
puzzling, quirky, surreal and
BRILLIANTLY BIZARRE art work.
A little bird has told us that there
is a new challenge coming tomorrow,
but my beak is sealed!!
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