René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle

Tate Liverpool 24 June – 16 October 2011

Magritte’s home in Brussels

Georgette Magritte

Georgette at the Piano 1923

Advertisement 1923

Belgian Surrealist Group 1924

What is Surrealism?

Salvador Dali

Max Ernst

Portrait of Paul Nougé, 1927

The Lovers 1928

The Murderer Threatened 1927

The Flame Rekindled 1943

Appropriation

Man with a Newspaper 1928

The Encounter 1926

The Annunciation 1930

The Lost Jockey 1926

The Secret Player 1927

This is a Piece of Cheese 1963-4

The Interpretation of Dreams, 1930

One-Night Museum 1927

The Palace of Curtains, 1929

Blood Letting 1938-9

Panorama for the Populace, 1926

The Human Condition 1933

The Key to the Fields 1936

Personal Values, 1952

The Glass Key 1959

Empire of Light 1953

The Explanation 1962

The Red Model 1947

The Great Family, 1963

The False Mirror, 1928

The Future of Statues 1937

Not to be Reproduced 1937

The Pleasure Principle 1937

Man Ray, Photograph of Edward James 1937

Time Transfixed 1938

Son of Man 1964

The Great War 1964

Bauci’s Landcape, 1966

Beautiful Society 1965

Decalcomania, 1966

Golconda 1953

How do you sum up Magritte’s art?

Magritte = paintings pattern

mystery objects words

surrealism