Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Brief Introduction
Hello, i am doing on René Magritte. I am really inspired by his work because i think they are magnificent .Magritte is a famous surreal Belgian artist . A consummate technician, his work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things.
His style
René Magritte was an artist who took mundane objects, pulled them through his imagination and forced them out the other side in such unreal combinations and relationships that they could cause the viewer to question the very nature of reality. He painted objects with an almost photographic accuracy but placed them in unreal relation to one another. By using only familiar objects but bringing them together in such unreal ways, Magritte was able to create something unfamiliar and startling. His works were efforts to overthrow the sense of the familiar. He was one of the greats of the Surrealist movement and a maker of visual puzzles which never fail to provoke thought in the viewer.
Quotable words
"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable." - René Magritte "Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist". - René Magritte
These are some of his painting.
The son of a Man,1964
These one of my favourite paintings. Does it seem familiar? It was immortalized in the movie, "The Thomas Crown Affair," and by The Beatles' Apple Records logo, which was designed to resemble the one in Magritte's painting. Magritte like to often blocked his subject's face with a suspended object to evoke the viewers curiosity . Another reason would be that when he was a child, his beloved mother committed suicide by leaping from a bridge and drowned herself. When young René awoke searched for her. He found her body floating in the stream with her face covered with her nightgown. The impact this had on his art becomes apparent in the many works in which he painted his subjects' faces covered with cloth. One such painting is The Lover.
The lovers
Personal Values 1952
Golconde, 1953
L'Homme au Chapeau Melon
The Rape1934
The listening room,1952
Surprise Answer
Conclusion
His works can be deceptively simple at first glance but his work has philosophical meaning which corresponds to many social and intellectual trends of the twentieth century.
