![]() And Magritte said, “ Well, that ’ s what a good painting should do. He originally painted it to go to his gallery in New York, and his dealer rejected it, saying it made him feel depressed, made him feel ill, made him feel sick. Well, this is proof of the effectiveness of the picture.”Ĭurators Gary Garrels and Sarah Roberts discuss René Magritte ’ s painting, Personal Values. Tellingly, the artist replied, “In my picture, the comb (and the other objects as well) has specifically lost its ‘social character,’ it has become an object of useless luxury, which may, as you say, leave the spectator feeling helpless or even make him ill. When he first saw this painting, Magritte’s dealer, Alexander Iolas, was violently upset by it. The familiar becomes unfamiliar, the normal, strange Magritte creates a paradoxical world that is, in his own words, “a defiance of common sense.” Inside and out are inverted by his rendering of a skyscape on the interior walls of the room. Here, the artist presents a room filled with familiar things, but he gives human proportions to these formerly unassuming props of everyday life, creating a sense of disorientation and incongruity. “To the best of my capability, by painterly means, I describe objects - and the mutual relationship of objects - in such a way that none of our habitual concepts or feelings is necessarily linked with them.” Rather than creating fantasy imagery, he evoked the strangeness and ambiguity latent in reality. irreal (re)views.Although he is often grouped with Surrealists such as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, and Yves Tanguy, Magritte took a somewhat different approach to painting. "This could be a pipe: Foucault, irrealism and Ceci n'est pas une pipe". René Magritte considers language and perception, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Magritte's The Treachery of Images ( Ceci n’est pas une pipe), Smarthistory Michel Foucault: This Is Not a Pipe, University of California Press, 2008. René Magritte: Beyond Painting, Manchester University Press, 2009. Esploratori di parole, in La parola nell'arte (in Italian). "Review of "Languages within language: An evolutive approach" by Ivan Fonagy". ^ "René Magritte - The Two Mysteries". ![]()
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