An Eye on Magritte
©kMadisonMooreMkM
11 x 14 inches Oil on Canvas
Art within Art Series
Margritte is such a nut! He is so much fun to paint with. I always findsomething new
when I work with him. I found this painting of "Magritte's Room" and just knew it was perfect for this composition,
of course with my changes and additions.Here's a photo so you can see
how his painting inspired "An Eye on Magritte."
All of the painting on the wall are Magritte, as well as the "Eye"
that I used for the flooring, the Bird painted like clouds, the
crazy piano, The scene in the window and the Pipe Painting on the easel.
He loved those hats and his pipe so I did a play on them as well.
Enjoy!
René François Ghislain Magritten ( 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His intended goal for his work was to challenge observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality and force viewers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings.
Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The representational use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting,
Magritte used the same approach in a painting of an apple: he painted the fruit realistically and then used an internal caption or framing device to deny that the item was an apple.
Magritte points out that no matter how closely, through realism-art, we come to depicting an item accurately, we never do catch the item itself.
Magritte's work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The representational use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting,
Magritte used the same approach in a painting of an apple: he painted the fruit realistically and then used an internal caption or framing device to deny that the item was an apple.
Magritte points out that no matter how closely, through realism-art, we come to depicting an item accurately, we never do catch the item itself.
Magritte's use of ordinary objects in unfamiliar spaces is joined to his desire to create poetic imagery. 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—the sky, people, trees, mountains, furniture, the stars, solid structures, graffiti—become united in a single poetically disciplined image. The poetry of this image dispenses with any symbolic significance, old or new.
More About Magritte
Magritte's Site
Paintings by Magritte
More About Magritte
Magritte's Site
Paintings by Magritte
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