Rene Magritte - 100 Famous Paintings With Name.
Rene Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte
Born: November 21, 1898; Lessines, Belgium
Died: August 15, 1967; Brussels, Belgium
Nationality: Belgian
Art Movement: Surrealism
A Belgian surrealist painter, Rene Magritte’s witty and thought-provoking paintings sought to have viewers question their perceptions of reality, and become hypersensitive to the world around them. Magritte’s mother was a suicidal woman, which led her husband, Magritte’s father, to lock her up in her room. One day, she escaped, and was found down a nearby river dead, having drowned herself. According to legend, 13 year old Magritte was there when they retrieved the body from the river. As she was pulled from the water, her dress covered her face. This later became a theme in many of Magritte’s paintings in the 1920’s, portraying people with cloth covering their faces.
He began drawing lessons at age ten, and in 1916, went to study a the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where he found the instruction uninspiring and unsuited to his tastes. He did not begin his actual painting career until after serving in the Belgian infantry for a short time, and working at a wallpaper company as a draftsman and producing advertising posters. He was able to paint full time due to a short-lived contract with Galerie le Centaure, allowing him to present in his first exhibition, which was poorly received.
Magritte made his living producing advertising posters in a business he ran with his brother, as well as creating forgeries of Picasso, Braque and Chirico paintings. His experience with forgeries also allowed him to create false bank notes during the German occupation of Belgium in World War II, helping him to survive the lean economic times.
Through creating common images and placing them in extreme contexts, Magritte sough to have his viewers question the ability of art to truly represent an object. In his paintings, he often played with the perception of an image and the fact that the painting of the image could never actually be the object. His artistic interpretations influenced many modern artists, including Andy Warhol, Jan Verdoodt and Jasper Johns. His art, which was especially popular during the 1960’s, has also influenced numerous songs, movies, and books.
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0:00 Introductie
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0:30 A Panic In The Middle Ages 1927
0:40 After The Water The Clouds 1926
1:00 Almayer S Folly 1951
1:10 Annunciation 1930
1:20 Attempting The Impossible 1928
1:30 Bathers 1921
1:50 Black Magic 1945
2:10 Blue Cinema 1925
2:30 Cicero
2:40 Clairvoyance Self Portrait 1936
2:50 Delusions Of Grandeur 1948
3:00 Discovery 1927
3:10 Donna 1923
3:20 Early Morning 1942
3:30 Fine Realities 1964
3:40 Georgette 1937
4:00 Gioconda 1964
4:10 Good Faith 1965
4:20 Harry Torczyner Justice Has Been Done 1958
4:50 Invisible World 1954
5:00 Lola De Valence 1948
5:10 Manet S Balcony 1950
5:20 Memory 1948
5:30 Memory Of A Journey 1955
5:40 Mental Complacency 1950
5:50 Midnight Marriage 1926
6:00 Natural Encounters 1945
6:10 On The Threshold of Liberty 1930
6:20 One Night Museum 1927
6:30 Pebble 1948
6:50 Philosopher's Lamp 1936
7:00 Polar Light 1926
7:20 Portrait 1935
7:40 Poster Exciting Perfumes By Mem 1946
7:50 Prince Charming 1948
8:00 Pure Reason 1948
8:10 Rape 1935
8:20 Sheherazade 1950
8:30 Son Of Man 1964
8:40 Souvenir From Travels
8:50 Souvenirs De Voyage
9:00 Spring 1965
9:10 The Acrobat S Exercises 1928
9:30 The Amorous Perpective 1935
9:40 The Anger Of Gods 1960
9:50 The Beneficial Promise 1927
10:10 The Catapult Of Desert 1926
10:20 The Dawn Of Cayenne 1926
10:40 The Domain Of Arnheim 1949
11:00 The Flood 1928
11:10 The Forest 1927
11:20 The Human Condition 1933
11:40 The Key To The Fields 1936
11:50 The Labours Of Alexander 1950
12:00 The Legend Of The Centuries 1950
12:10 The Liberator 1947
12:30 The Looking Glass 1963
12:40 The Man Of The Sea 1927
12:50 The Menaced Assassin 1927
13:30 The Red Model 1934
13:50 The Schoolmaster 1954
14:00 The Secret Player 1927
14:10 The Silver Gap 1926
14:20 The Spirit Of Adventure 1962
14:50 The Therapeutist 1937
15:00 The Titanic Days 1928
15:10 The Victory 1939
15:20 The Voice Of Blood 1948
15:30 The Wasted Footsteps 1950
15:40 Threshold of Forest 1926
16:00 Unexpected Answer 1933
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