This combination of
Magritte and media analysis gives Neukamp a way around the interminable tug-of-war between abstraction and figuration that has become modernist painting's principal bequest.
Christie's deputy chairman of Impressionist and Modern Art, Olivier Camu, told the AP that the painting "is the most striking painting by
Magritte that we have sold at auction" since "The Dominion of Lights" was sold for almost $12.7 million in 2002.
Magritte's mission as a writer is essentially to express in words what is communicated more cryptically through his paintings, to probe or pinpoint, and reveal hidden possibilities which the too impatient eye has missed.
Magritte's pipe has inspired many artists, not least himself.
After an introduction, practice with the basic one-point perspective, and a review of related math vocabulary (converging, parallel, vertical and horizontal lines; right, acute and obtuse angles), this project began with a discussion of surrealist art and
Magritte.
Above left: Rene
Magritte L'assassin menace (The Menaced Assassin) Brussels, 1927 oil on canvas, (150.4x195.2cm), Museum of Modern Art, Kay Sage Tanguy Fund (c) Charly Herscovici.
Beginning in 1926, when
Magritte first aimed to create paintings that would, in his words, challenge the real world,and concluding in 1938 - just before the outbreak of World War II - the book traces central strategies and themes from this seminal period including displacement, isolation and Beginning in 1926, when
Magritte first aimed to create paintings that would, in his words, challenge the real world,and concluding in 1938 - just before the outbreak of World War II - the book traces central strategies and themes from this seminal period including displacement, isolation and metamorphosis.
The latter trend was characteristic of the work of
Magritte, Delvaux, and Dali.
A young visitor at the Rene
Magritte exhibition Picture: GAVIN TRAFFORD
This thoughtful picture is derived from the work of 20th century master
Magritte while offering something new and fresh.
He was, in fact, a poet of the interarts, as was
Magritte, who used the titles of literary works as the titles for his paintings: The Musings of a Solitary Walker [Les Reveries du promeneur solitaire] (1926, based on Rousseau's work), The Flowers of Evil, and The Domain of Arnheim (1962, based on Poe's work) are three examples among many others.