Posts tagged René Magritte

apoetreflects:
On Giorgio de Chirico:
“He is actually the first painter to have thought of making painting speak of something other than painting.”
—René Magritte, from a letter to André Bosmans, March 27, 1959, taken from Magritte: Ideas and Images by Harry Torczyner, translated by Richard Miller (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977)
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“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist” —René Magritte

apoetreflects:

On Giorgio de Chirico:

“He is actually the first painter to have thought of making painting speak of something other than painting.”

—René Magritte, from a letter to André Bosmans, March 27, 1959, taken from Magritte: Ideas and Images by Harry Torczyner, translated by Richard Miller (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977)

(gallery)

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist” —René Magritte

paxmachina:
Whereabouts and artist unknown, but a clever take on René Magritte.

paxmachina:

Whereabouts and artist unknown, but a clever take on René Magritte.

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist” René Magritte

(gallery)

chagalov:

René Magritte poses with his painting ‘Barbare’ (1927) at the London Gallery, London 1938 -nd
This painting was among many (around 150, about 15 by Magritte) destroyed in a bombing (ca 1940).
from: Patrick Roegiers, Magritte et la photographie, Gand-Amsterdam, Ludion, 2005

chagalov:

René Magritte poses with his painting ‘Barbare’ (1927) at the London Gallery, London 1938 -nd

This painting was among many (around 150, about 15 by Magritte) destroyed in a bombing (ca 1940).

from: Patrick Roegiers, Magritte et la photographie, Gand-Amsterdam, Ludion, 2005