{"id":12215,"date":"2021-09-10T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=12215"},"modified":"2023-02-12T18:28:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T00:28:45","slug":"a-small-list-of-great-artists-27-rene-magritte-belgian-1898-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/12215","title":{"rendered":"A Small List of Great Artists – REN\u00c9 MAGRITTE (Belgian, 1898-1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

see Magritte\u2019s Treachery of Images<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

see Magritte\u2019s Empire of Light<\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

REN\u00c9 MAGRITTE<\/strong> (Belgian, 1898-1967), a leading member of the Surrealists, caught my attention in high school, when I was old enough to drive an hour and a half to the nearest city and flip through racks of posters at malls. Such confusing but engaging imagery caught my eye there. Boxer hat-wearing men with apples floating in front of their faces? Trees with windows showing a hint of an everyday home inside? Humongous boulders floating, unmoving, over the ocean? Lovers standing cheek to cheek with sacks over their heads? Men looking in mirrors, and in the reflection, they see our vantage point of the backs of their own heads? Humongous apples or combs completely taking up the space of tiny bedrooms? I didn\u2019t know what to make of these confusing images, but I couldn\u2019t shake the imagery either. Surrealism sought to capture the reality of dreams and the unconscious mind. Magritte depicted ordinary objects in unusual contexts, or paired with things incongruously, challenging the viewer\u2019s preconceptions of reality. His art and ideas have influenced pop, minimalism, and conceptual art, and Film Director William Friedkin says that his own iconic scene of the priest arriving at the home of the possessed child, in the Exorcist (1973), was an homage to Magritte\u2019s Empire of Light<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Lovers<\/em><\/a>  (1928), The Museum of Modern Art<\/a>, New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Lovers<\/em><\/a> (1928), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Listening Room<\/em><\/a> (1952), The Menil Collection<\/a>, Houston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Listening Room<\/em><\/a> (1952), The Menil Collection<\/a>, Houston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Listening Room<\/em><\/a> (1958), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Anniversary<\/em><\/a> (1959), Art Gallery of Toronto<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Tomb of the Wrestlers<\/a><\/em> (1960), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Lovers<\/em><\/a>  (1928), The Museum of Modern Art<\/a>, New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, Personal Values<\/em><\/a> (1952), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Listening Room<\/em><\/a> (1952), The Menil Collection<\/a>, Houston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Listening Room<\/em><\/a> (1958), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Anniversary<\/em><\/a> (1959), Art Gallery of Toronto<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris and his son with Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a>, The Tomb of the Wrestlers<\/a><\/em> (1960), private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n

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see Magritte\u2019s Treachery of Images see Magritte\u2019s Empire of Light REN\u00c9 MAGRITTE (Belgian, 1898-1967), a leading member of the Surrealists, caught my attention in high school, when I was old enough to drive an hour and a half to the nearest city and flip through racks of posters at malls. Such confusing but engaging imagery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brush-with-peril"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":3,"uagb_excerpt":"see Magritte\u2019s Treachery of Images see Magritte\u2019s Empire of Light REN\u00c9 MAGRITTE (Belgian, 1898-1967), a leading member of the Surrealists, caught my attention in high school, when I was old enough to drive an hour and a half to the nearest city and flip through racks of posters at malls. 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