Rene Magritte

Magritte's paintings

- feature some sort of visual paradox (a restless blue sky with a hole in it, a human body with the head of a fish, a hat suspended in mid-air)

- seas and skies seem bright and sunny, but there is a disturbing artificiality about the too-regular clouds and the too-glassy water. - interplay between precisely drawn objects and abnormal settings and features is that the common-sense perception of reality is only one way of looking at the world- “The Human Condition” (1934), Magritte forcefully demonstrates the paradoxes of perception by placing a painting showing a landscape view within the window overlooking an identical view

“The Human Condition” (1934), Magritte

Rene Magritte

                                           

"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

“Perspective” Series

Late1940s and early 1950s…- Magritte made a series of “Perspective” paintings based on

well-known works by French artists François Gérard, Jacques Louis David, and Édouard Manet

- Substituted coffins for the figures represented in the original paintings.

- Composition of Magritte’s paintings almost identical to the originals, except that the seductive young sitter has been replaced by a coffin, with a cascading gown left as the only trace of her previous existence

Jacques-Louis David

Rene Magritte

Tanguy

Giorgio de Chirico

Song of Love, 1914

The Vexations of the Thinker

Dali

Eggs on a Plate Without a Plate (1932)

The Enigma of Desire - My Mother, my Mother, my Mother, 1929

Galatea of the Spheres

Swans Reflecting Elephants

Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man

The Persistence of Memory, 1931

Salvador Dali The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940)

Apparition of face and fruit-bowl on a beach. 1938

Un hommage à Dali

Max Ernst

Oedipus Rex. 1922. Oil on canvas. 93 x 102 cm.

Ubu Imperator

Frida Kahlo

What the Water Gave Me1938

Remedios VaroCreation of Birds1958