Surreal images (René Magritte)

René Francois Ghislain Magritte (1898- 1967)

Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist.
He became well known for a number of witty and thought provoking images.
His intended goal for his work was to challenge observers preconditioned perceptions of reality and force vieuwers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings.
At the age of 13, his mother committed suicide, and accordingly to a legend Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water of the river Sambre.
The image of his mother floating, her dress obscuring her face, may have influenced his paintings.
In Paris he met Andre Breton, and became involved in surrealism.
Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things.
"The treachery of Images" (la trahison des images) shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement.
Magritte painted below the pipe "ceci nést pas une pipe"
(this is not a pipe), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true.
When Magritte once was asked about this image he replied:
"Ofcourse it's not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco"
Magritte points out that no matter how closely we come to depicting an item accurately, we never do catch the item itself.
René Magritte described his paintings as 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.

Quote by René Magritte:
"Life obliges me to do something, so i paint"

link to wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte

link to biography http://www.dropbears.com/a/art/biography/Rene_Magritte.html




link to artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/magritte_rene.html

link to playlist of René Magritte http://www.youtube.com/user/meesterschilders#grid/user/B2E1252D88489530

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[heks9966]

Beautiful paintings! If you like to use our cover of Mmm mmm mmm, you're welcome. Just send me your emailadress and I will mail you the mp3. Maybe its nice to work together:):):)

[meesterschilders]

leuk aanbod, maar dan zou ik deze video opnieuw moeten maken (kan nu alleen maar audioswap gebruiken)

misschien wel een leuk idee om eens samen te werken, wie weet kom ik hier nog wel eens op terug...

succes met je muziek, Chris

[barefootID]

Magritte forever!

[halynamyroslava]

!!!!!

[Leibo07]

Het eerste doek heet geloof ik Les liaisons dangereuses en kan perfect dienen als illustratie van het 'spiegelstadium' in de psychoanalyse.

De muziek is een erg slechte keuze; verder leuke vid. De prenten zijn allemaal wat de breedte in getrokken, dacht ik zo.

[dodiese09]

I love this vid !

[ameliavavalli]

Ottimo Lavoro :)

[lilamagritte]

Buen trabajo, gracias.

[gilcarosio]

Well done..great paintings!

[michelesato]

cool

i liked it