Rene Magritt

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Rene Magritte

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 Magritte Rene (1898-1967), Belgian surrealist painter. Born November 21, 1898.  From 1916 to 1918 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels, after which he worked as a wallpaper designer and advertising decorator. The artist's early works were executed in the style of Cubism and Futurism, influenced by the work of the French futurist artist Fernand Léger.  In 1922, Magritte married Georgette Berger, whom he met at the age of fifteen. After the wedding, she became the only model for the paintings of the Belgian painter.

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● Acquaintance with the metaphysical painting of George de Chirico and the poetry of the Dadaists was an important turning point for the work of Magritte. ● In 1925, the Belgian painter is a member of the Dadaist group, collaborates in the magazines "Aesophage" and "Marie" together with Jean Arp, François Picabia, Tristan Tzara and other Dadaists. ● In 1925-1926, the artist painted "Oasis" and "The Lost Jockey" - his first surreal paintings. ● In 1927-1930, Rene Magritte lived in France, participated in the activities of a group of surrealists, became close friends with Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, André Breton, Louis Bunuel and especially with the poet Paul Eluard.

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“ Oasis ” “ Lost Jockey ”

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In Paris, the system of Magritte's conceptual painting was finally formed and remained almost unchanged until the end of the artist's life. In the paintings of the Belgian painter, there is always a sense of tension and mystery. “ Companions of fear ” “ A bouquet of tears ” “ Explanation ”

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“ Empire of light ” « I combined different concepts in "Empire of Light", namely - the night landscape and the sky in all the glory of daylight. The landscape inclines us to think about the night, the sky about the day. In my opinion, this simultaneous phenomenon of day and night has the power to surprise and enchant. And this power I call poetry ». Rene Magritte

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Magritte skillfully created a contrast between beautifully painted strange combinations of surreal objects and natural surroundings, for this purpose the artist actively used symbols of mirrors, eyes, windows in his paintings “ The key to space ”

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“ Fake mirror ” “ Wonderful world ”

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The Son of Man (1964) is Magritte's most widely disseminated work, parodies and allusions to which are encountered so often that the image already lives separately from its creator. Initially, Rene Magritte painted the picture as a self-portrait, where the figure of a man symbolized a modern man who had lost his individuality, but remained the son of Adam, who could not resist temptations - hence the apple covering his face.

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“ Man in bowler hat ”“ Great century ”

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In 1953 Magritte draws the famous "Golconda". Rene himself argued that this picture personifies the one- facedness of the crowd and the loneliness of the individual in it, who can touch real life - again - only in a dream.

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“ School teacher ” In 1955, a man in a coat and bowler hat opens up from different sides. Three figures, three moons, three realities. "Masterpiece or Mystery of the Horizon"