Rene Magritte
(1898-1967)
Rene Magritte was a leading
figure in the visual surrealist movement. He came from middle-class family in Belgian,
his mother committed suicide in Magritte’s younger age and when his mother was
found, her face was covered by her dress and this sense became a source for
many of Magritte’s works, such as Les
Amants. Magritte’s early works were based on impressionism and later he
later also influenced by cubism and futurism. On His images were based on
humorous and profoundly. “His work challenges observers' preconditioned
perceptions of reality”, and are amazingly contain the sense of fantasy and
surreal reality.
Magritte’s work displays a
collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, and provides new meaning
to familiar things. His surrealistic style is focus on unconscious, mystery, the
play between realistic and illusion (influenced by the early death of her
mother) and the poetic representation.
The Lover 1928
- Oil painting
- Visual depiction of the idea “love is blind”
- The meaning relates to people who is fall in love with
another person, and the romantic state.
- Lovers are blind when they are falling in love and do not
take moment to think and all they did was following their heart.
- The painting emphasizes a mysterious representation of
lover and the internal state of the meaning of love.
The Son of Man 1964
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Painting by Magritte as his self-portrait, a man
wearing a coat standing in front to a short wall, behind him is cloudy sky and
ocean. His face is all covered with a green apple, but his eye is peaking out.
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A truly surrealist depiction of the artist himself.
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About the painting Magritte said: “At least it
hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding
the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens
constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what
is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and
which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite
intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is
hidden and the visible that is present”.
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An emphasis on what is reality, the nature of
reality. And this painting is giving viewers a high level of symbolism that
creates a confused atmosphere.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte
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