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Surrealism. 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)
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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
“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 - Composition of Magritte’s paintings almost identical to the originals, except that the seductive young sitter has been replaced by a coffin, with a cascading gown left as the only trace of her previous existence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
Song of Love, 1914 Giorgio de Chirico The Vexations of the Thinker
The Enigma of Desire - My Mother, my Mother, my Mother, 1929
Salvador Dali The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
Frida Kahlo What the Water Gave Me1938
