MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / LOS ANGELES – LACMA, County Museum of Art: The Treachery of Images, by René Magritte

René Magritte was a surrealist artist from Belgium. His reputation became well known for his various witty and thought-provoking images which are categorized as surrealism. Like the other artists and poets associated with the Surrealist movement, he sought to overthrow what he saw as the oppressive rationalism of bourgeois society. For him the painting challenges the correspondence of the image, the idea that an image stands unambiguously for/or in relation to the object which it represents. “Pipe,” for instance, is no more an actual pipe than a picture of a pipe can be smoked. Magritte likely borrowed the pipe motif from Le Corbusier’s book ‘Vers une architecture’. http://www.lacma.org/

La Trahison des images (The Treachery of Images) produced in 1928, is an oil painting on canvas (63.5 × 93.98 cm) of the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. To give your eyes the magic of this painting, we invite you to take a trip to Califiornia, because it is preserved in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As in many of his paintings, Magritte evokes mystery by using a veiling device, concealing the contents of the bottom-right compartment behind a paper cut screen. The picture shows a pipe. Below it, Magritte painted Ceci n’est pas une pipe but rather an image of a pipe. This masterpiece of Surrealism creates a three-way paradox out of the conventional notion that objects correspond to words and images. The pipe’s deep shades of brown, its center placement on the canvas, and a background the color of bleached bones illustrate how contemporary art can have meaning. You can see more on Meeting Benches, looking for: http://meetingbenches.com/2015/08/rene-magritte-18981967-pittore-belga-the-surrealist-artist-the-man-able-to-made-works-in-special-waychallenging-observers-preconditioned-perceptions-of-reality/

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