mr ritter is making me do this

                                                                       Sept. 27, 2019 beginning  When I first started my project I thought it was going to be more complicated. First, I put two pieces of wood together to measure out a width and length of 24x28 inches and cut two pieces off of this brown or tan stuff. Then towards the end I had to drill the two pieces together with two other pieces of wood to hold it together in the back so it wouldn't fall and would be able to hang up onto a wall. One of the things I kind of struggled with was honestly trying to cut through the brown stuff and I think part of the problem was the fact that I was cutting it using an utility knife and those things aren't that strong or sharp really, but I eventually was able to cut through it although it wasn't perfect. I also figured out that it wasn't as complicated as I thought it would be, it was pretty easy and fun. towards the end of the beginning

                     Art History on Rene Magritte       Rene's most famous work was a piece called The Treachery of Images, which is a picture of a pipe but, Rene didn't consider it a pipe because he called it "A Merely Image". The famous painting was made in 1929.     Rene Magritte's medium was oil paint and a canvas as a support and a technique called the trompe l'oeil effect, which is basically visual illusion to trick the eye and make people think that the painting is 3-D.     Mr. Magritte had worked in the Belgian Infantry for a year (1920-1921). Then he worked at a wallpaper factory and was a poster designer in 1926. Then moved to Paris from Belgian Europe and helped with the end of a book that another person wrote and I am not sure who wrote the book and what the book is called. But during those times and work he still painted at home and at the end of 1948 was when he started using his old technique in his paintings again.     His most productiv