![]() ![]() The Surrealists used dreamlike and mysterious imagery, much of which stemmed through stream of consciousness, in order to create odd juxtapositions within their paintings. ![]() The groups regularly communicated with each other, and a few Brussels members (including René Magritte) eventually moved to Paris. There were two informal groups–one based in Brussels, the other Paris–the members of whom met in cafes to discuss Surrealism and experiment with drawing techniques (ex: collaborative drawing, automatic drawing). Visual artists eventually began to associate with the movement, often incorporating many of the writers’ techniques, such as “automatism”–or the technique of writing freely from the subconscious–into their own practices. Led by French poet André Breton, Surrealism emerged in 1924 originally as a literary movement in Paris inspired by the psychological and political theories of Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx, respectively. Magritte’s popularity greatly rose in the 1960s, and he died of pancreatic cancer on August 5, 1967, at the age of 68. He would move back and forth between Brussels and Paris throughout his life, and had a rocky relationship with André Breton, the founder of the Surrealist movement. In 1927, Magritte moved to Paris, where he more closely interacted with the Surrealist group over there. Magritte was extremely prolific in the late 1920s, producing almost one piece of artwork everyday. Aside from this, not much is known about his early life. Two years after he began drawing at age 12, his mother committed suicide in the River Sambre. His father was a tailor and textile merchant, and his mother was a milliner. Maybe I'll paint a few canvases in tribute to him, using some of his images.as a joke of course.Magritte was born Novemin Hainaut, Lessines (a province in Belgium). Of the many artists I admire I think Rene Magritte is closest in style and temperment to me. Some of my early paintings have mysterious objects like the Flower of the Universe, the flower become almost magical as if imbued with a surreal power. Magritte like to base his paintings on poetry and literature.Īll of my Driftwood Series use mental trickery of some kind. ![]() There's inconic religious imagery and it's based on the legend of Lady Godiva. The mysterious horses, the painting within a painting (the actual painting is upside down and is a painting of a painting on an eisel). Reflections is a bit of a mental mind game. Eck Roberston towering above the mountains.the cherry pie and puddin' seem to be magically placed. It's not that I have tried to copy or emulate him or his work in any way.it's just that some of the things I do remind me of his style of painting. Here are some examples of Magritte's influence on my art. The interpretation he leaves to the viewer. In fact he distanced himself from the surrealist ideologies in the early 1930s and tried to use ordinary objects as symbols. Contrary to what he said publicly, Magritte cared deeply about his work and there is meaning in his work. Magritte took this stance that no one could fathom his paintings, that reality is in fact unfathomable. Rene Magritte described his paintings saying, "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." Sometimes night is day and day is night. His iconic symbols like the egg and apple have profound meaning.well maybe not. Magritte is poking fun at reality itself, at meaning and at our perception of reality. Sometimes he tells us that what we see is not real it's just paint on canvas. Provoking thought is an essential element of art for me and even though some surrealist images are not to be fathomed, making me think is enough. If you're not trying to say something, if you're not trying to get the viewer involved mentally and emotionally- why bother. Although some images like fractals pose an awesome type of beauty and wonderment to me, real images connect me to my world. There are may ways that we are similar, I've included a few examples below. This section is dedicated to the artwork of René François Ghislain Magritte (November 21, 1898– August 15, 1967) who was a Belgian surrealist artist who painted around 1,600 pieces. ![]()
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