![]() The composition of the painting seems to be rather symmetrical, with the glass being at the centre of the painting and three objects on each side of the paintings, scattered randomly. ![]() ![]() The addition of light and tones also allows the painting to become more lively and vibrant. The direction of light seems to come from the right side of the painting, where the window is located, as the shadows of the objects fall on the left side of the painting. The lines and higlights also gives the objects the curvatures and edges that they should have, also at the same time, creating the different textures of the objects, for example, the highlights and the fine lines that are being used to paint the glass makes it look extremely realistic even in terms of the reflection of light on the glass, the viewers can even see the depth of the glass through the painting. The detailed shadows and tones that are given to the objects makes the realistically painted objects look well-modelled and three-dimensional. With the goal of letting viewers relate to the painting, Magritte managed to portray the objects naturalistically so that viewers can relate to the objects that they see in the painting. The brushstrokes that Magritte employed is extremely fine, almost invisible and extremely well-blended, allowing the painting to look realistic and in its most natural state, while making the painting polished and refined at the same time. There is also balance achieved between the warm and the cool colours, most of the warm colours used are brown while the cool colours are mostly made up of blue, hence, adding a touch of vibrance to the painting. From the mirror’s reflection, a white curtain can be seen.Ī variation of colours is being used in the painting and the colours are almost identical to the real-life objects themselves, making the objects look incredibly realistic. The background, or rather the wallpaper of the room is of fluffy whit clouds against an azure blue sky which feels seemingly calm and dream-like. Their magnified scale gives the viewers a sense of presence and that the room is completely occupied, also at the time, threatening the viewer’s comfortable familiarity of these common objects, suggesting that there is no room for the viewers. In this painting, there are several commonly seen items, namely a comb, matchstick, shaving brush, bar of soap, and wineglass that are blown up to human-sized proportions. The items are arranged randomly and without any order. We will now look into one of his most famous paintings, “Les Valeurs Personnelles” (1952): It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.” 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?’. The poetry of this image dispenses with any symbolic significance, old or new.” He described the act of painting as “the art of putting colors side by side in such a way that their real aspect is effaced, so that familiar objects become united in a single poetically disciplined image. Magritte’s use of ordinary objects in unfamiliar spaces is joined to his desire to create poetic imagery. In these “ Ceci n’est pas” works, Magritte points out that no matter how naturalistically or realistically we depict an object, we never do catch the item itself.Īmong Magritte’s works are a number of surrealist versions of other famous paintings such as his The Human Condition series(1933, 1935) or The Promenades of Euclid (1995). Magritte used the same approach in a painting of an apple, inserting a caption with the image of the fruit. ![]() Magritte painted below the pipe “ Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (“This is not a pipe”), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. The use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting, ‘The Treachery of Images’ which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte’s work frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. René Magritte on putting seemingly unrelated objects together in juxtaposition ![]()
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