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| Son of man 1964
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Rene was a Belgium surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and
thought-provoking images that fall under the umbrella of surrealism.
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| René Magritte. The Lovers |
His
work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of
reality.He happens to be my favorite painter and i am happy to say that i have visited in Brussels his museum
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| Ceci n'est pas" |
Magritte's work frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in
an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The use of
objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting.Magritte used the same approach in a painting of an apple: he painted
the fruit and then used an internal caption or framing device to deny
that the item was an apple. In these "
Ceci n'est pas" works, Magritte points out that no matter how naturalistically we depict an object, we never do catch the item itself.
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| The therapeutist - Rene Magritte |
Magritte's works are conceived of as riddles. In them, he explores the
mysteries lurking in the unexpected juxtaposition of everyday things,
involving the viewer in a self-induced
disorientation. His paintings exclude symbols and myths;
everything is visible. Magritte worked from several sources, which he
repeated with variations: anatomical surprises, such as the
hand whose wrist is a woman's face; the mysterious opening,
where a door swings open onto an unexpected vista; metamorphic
creatures, such as a stone bird flying above a rocky shoreline.
He animates the inanimate, as a shoe with toes; he enlarges
details, as an immense apple filling a room. he makes an association of
complementaries, as the leaf-bird, or the mountain-eagle.
His titles accompany the paintings in the way that names
correspond to objects, without either illustrating or explaining them.
There is always a kind of logic to Magritte's images but when
asked about analysis of the content of his paintings, Magritte replied,
"If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying
to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the
thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised." The
interpretation of the image was a denial of its mystery, the
mystery of the invisible. His images are to be looked at, not
into.
