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René Magritte
Portrait of Magritte in front of his paintingLa perspective amoureuse,1961
Born
René François Ghislain Magritte

(1898-11-21)21 November 1898
Lessines,Belgium
Died15 August 1967(1967-08-15)(aged 68)
Brussels, Belgium
Known forPainter
Notable workThe Treachery of Images
The Son of Man
The Human Condition
Golconda
The Menaced Assassin
MovementSurrealism
Signature

René François Ghislain Magritte(French:[ʁənefʁɑ̃swaɡilɛ̃maɡʁit];21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgiansurrealistartist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation.[1]His imagery has influencedpop art,minimalist art,andconceptual art.[2]

Early life

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René Magritte was born inLessines,in the province ofHainaut,Belgium, in 1898. He was the oldest son of Léopold Magritte, atailorand textile merchant,[3]and Régina (néeBertinchamps), who was amillinerbefore she got married. Little is known about Magritte's early life. He began lessons in drawing in 1910.[3]

On 24 February 1912, his mother died bysuicideby drowning herself in theRiver SambreatChâtelet.[4]It was not her first suicide attempt. Her body was not discovered until 12 March.[4]According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water, but recent research[when?]has discredited this story, which may have originated with the family nurse.[5]Supposedly, when his mother was found, her dress was covering her face, an image that has been suggested as the source of several of Magritte's paintings in 1927–1928 of people with cloth obscuring their faces, includingLes Amants.[6]

Career

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Magritte's earliest paintings, which date from about 1915, wereImpressionisticin style.[5]During 1916–1918, he studied at theAcadémie Royale des Beaux-ArtsinBrussels,[7]underConstant Montald,but found the instruction uninspiring.[5]He also took classes at the Académie Royale from the painter and poster designerGisbert Combaz.[8]The paintings he produced during 1918–1924 were influenced byFuturismand by the figurativeCubismofMetzinger.[5]

From December 1920 until September 1921, Magritte served in the Belgian infantry in theFlemishtown ofBeverlonearLeopoldsburg.In 1922, Magritte marriedGeorgette Berger,whom he had met as a child in 1913.[3]Also during 1922, the poetMarcel Lecomteshowed Magritte a reproduction ofGiorgio de Chirico'sThe Song of Love(painted in 1914). The work brought Magritte to tears; he described this as "one of the most moving moments of my life: my eyessawthought for the first time. "[9]The paintings of the Belgian symbolist painterWilliam Degouve de Nuncqueshave also been noted as an influence on Magritte, specifically the former's paintingThe Blind House(1892) and Magritte's variations or series onThe Empire of Lights.[10]: 64–65 pp. 

In 1922–1923, Magritte worked as adraughtsmanin awallpaperfactory, and was a poster and advertisement designer until 1926, when a contract with Galerie Le Centaure inBrusselsmade it possible for him to paint full-time. In 1926, Magritte produced his first surreal painting,The Lost Jockey(Le jockey perdu), and held his first solo exhibition in Brussels in 1927.[7]The exhibition was poorly reviewed.[11]

Depressed by the failure, he moved to Paris where he became friends withAndré Bretonand became involved in theSurrealistgroup. An illusionistic, dream-like quality is characteristic of Magritte's version of Surrealism. He became a leading member of the movement, and remained in Paris for three years.[12]In 1929, he was put under contract at Goemans Gallery in Paris along withJean ArpandYves Tanguy.[13]

On 15 December 1929, Magritte participated in the last publication ofLa Revolution SurrealisteNo. 12, where he published his essay "Les mots et les images", where words play with images in sync with his workThe Treachery of Images.[14]

Galerie Le Centaure closed at the end of 1929, ending Magritte's contract income. Having made little impact in Paris, Magritte returned to Brussels in 1930 and resumed working in advertising.[15]He and his brother, Paul, formed an agency which earned him a living wage. In 1932, Magritte joined theCommunist Party,which he would periodically leave and rejoin for several years.[15]In 1936 he had his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Julien Levy Gallery inNew York,followed by an exposition at the London Gallery in 1938.[16]

Between 1934 and 1937, Magritte drew film posters under the pseudonym 'Emair' for the German sound film distributorTobis Klangfilm.The Leuven City Archive preserves seven posters designed by Magritte.

During the early stages of his career, the British surrealist patronEdward Jamesallowed Magritte to stay rent-free in his London home, where Magritte studied architecture and painted. James is featured in two of Magritte's works painted in 1937,Le Principe du Plaisir(The Pleasure Principle) andLa Reproduction Interdite,a painting also known asNot to Be Reproduced.[17]

During theGerman occupation of Belgiumin World War II he remained in Brussels, which led to a break with Breton. He briefly adopted a colorful, painterly style in 1943–44, an interlude known as his "Renoirperiod ", as a reaction to his feelings of alienation and abandonment that came with living in German-occupied Belgium.[18]

In 1946, renouncing the violence andpessimismof his earlier work, he joined several other Belgian artists in signing the manifestoSurrealism in Full Sunlight.[19]During 1947–48, Magritte's "Vache period", he painted in a provocative and crudeFauvestyle. During this time, Magritte supported himself through the production of fake Picassos,Braques,and de Chiricos—a fraudulent repertoire he was later to expand into the printing of forged banknotes during the lean postwar period. This venture was undertaken alongside his brother Paul and fellow Surrealist and "surrogate son"Marcel Mariën,to whom had fallen the task of selling the forgeries.[20]At the end of 1948, Magritte returned to the style and themes of his pre-war surrealistic art.[21]

In France, Magritte's work has been showcased in a number of retrospective exhibitions, most recently at theCentre Georges Pompidou(2016–2017). In the United States his work has been featured in three retrospective exhibitions: at theMuseum of Modern Artin 1965, at theMetropolitan Museum of Artin 1992, and again at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013. An exhibition entitled "The Fifth Season" at theSan Francisco Museum of Modern Artin 2018 focused on the work of his later years.[22]

Politically, Magritte stood to the left, and retained close ties to the Communist Party, even in the post-war years. However, he was critical of the functionalist cultural policy of the Communist left, stating that "Class consciousness is as necessary as bread; but that does not mean that workers must be condemned to bread and water and that wanting chicken and champagne would be harmful. (...) For the Communist painter, the justification of artistic activity is to create pictures that can represent mental luxury." While remaining committed to the political left, he thus advocated a certain autonomy of art.[23][24]Spiritually, Magritte was an agnostic.[25]

Popular interest in Magritte's work rose considerably in the 1960s, and his imagery has influencedpop,minimalist,andconceptual art.[2]In 2005 he was 9th in theWalloonversion ofDe Grootste Belg(The Greatest Belgian); in theFlemishversion he was 18th.[citation needed]

Personal life

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Magritte married Georgette Berger in June 1922. Georgette was the daughter of a butcher in Charleroi, and first met Magritte when she was 13 and he was 15. They met again seven years later in Brussels in 1920[26]and Georgette, who had also studied art, became Magritte's model, muse, and wife.[27]

In 1936, Magritte's marriage became troubled when he met a young performance artist,Sheila Legge,and began an affair with her. Magritte arranged for his friend, Paul Colinet, to entertain and distract Georgette, but this led to an affair between Georgette and Colinet. Magritte and his wife did not reconcile until 1940.[28]

Magritte died ofpancreatic canceron 15 August 1967, aged 68, and was interred inSchaerbeek Cemetery,Evere,Brussels.[29]

Philosophical and artistic gestures

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The Empire of Light,c. 1950–1954,Museum of Modern Art

It is a union that suggests the essential mystery of the world. Art for me is not an end in itself, but a means of evoking that mystery.

René Magritte on putting seemingly unrelated objects together in juxtaposition[30]

Magritte's work frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting,[31]The Treachery of Images(La trahison des images), which shows apipethat looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"(" This is not a pipe "),[32]which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is animageof a pipe. It does not "satisfy emotionally" —when Magritte was once asked about this image, he replied that of course it was not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco.[33]

Ceci n'est pas une pipe
A man saying the phraseCeci n'est pas une pipe
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Magritte's work has been described bySuzi Gablikas "a systematic attempt to disrupt any dogmatic view of the physical world."[34]Therefore, when Magritte painted rocks – which are commonly understood to be heavy, inanimate objects – he often painted them floating cloud-like in the sky, or painted scenes of people and their environment turned to stone.[35]

Among Magritte's works are a number of surrealist versions of other famous paintings, such asPerspective IandPerspective II,which are copies ofDavid'sPortrait of Madame Récamier[36]andManet'sThe Balcony,[37]respectively, but with the human subjects replaced by coffins.[38]Elsewhere, Magritte challenges the difficulty of artwork to convey meaning with a recurring motif of an easel, as in hisThe Human Conditionseries (1933, 1935) orThe Promenades of Euclid(1955), wherein the spires of a castle are "painted" upon the ordinary streets which the canvas overlooks. In a letter to André Breton, he wrote ofThe Human Conditionthat it was irrelevant if the scene behind the easel differed from what was depicted upon it, "but the main thing was to eliminate the difference between a view seen from outside and from inside a room."[39]The windows in some of these pictures are framed with heavy drapes, suggesting a theatrical motif.[40]

Magritte's style of surrealism is more representational than the"automatic"style of artists such asJoan Miró.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."[41]

René Magritte described his paintings as "visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."[42]

Magritte's constant play with reality and illusion has been attributed to the early death of his mother. Psychoanalysts who have examined bereaved children have hypothesized that Magritte's back and forth play with reality and illusion reflects his "constant shifting back and forth from what he wishes—'mother is alive'—to what he knows—'mother is dead'."[43]

More recently, Patricia Allmer has demonstrated the influence of fairground attractions on Magritte's art – from carousels and circuses to panoramas and stage magic.[44]

Artists influenced by Magritte

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Contemporary artists have been greatly influenced by René Magritte's stimulating examination of the fickleness of images. Some artists who have been influenced by Magritte's works includeJohn Baldessari,Ed Ruscha,Andy Warhol,Jasper Johns,Jan Verdoodt,Martin Kippenberger,Duane Michals,Storm Thorgerson,andLuis Rey.Some of the artists' works integrate direct references and others offer contemporary viewpoints on his abstract fixations.[45]

Magritte's use of simple graphic and everyday imagery has been compared to that of thepop-artists.His influence in the development of pop art has been widely recognized,[46]although Magritte himself discounted the connection. He considered the pop artists' representation of "the world as it is" as "their error", and contrasted their attention to the transitory with his concern for "the feeling for the real, insofar as it is permanent."[46]The 2006–2007LACMAexhibition "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" examined the relationship between Magritte and contemporary art.[47]

Legacy

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500francnote showing portrait of Magritte

The 1960s brought a great increase in public awareness of Magritte's work.[2]Thanks to his "sound knowledge of how to present objects in a manner both suggestive and questioning", his works have been frequently adapted or plagiarized in advertisements, posters, book covers and the like.[48]Examples include album covers such asBeck-OlabyThe Jeff Beck Group(reproducing Magritte'sThe Listening Room),Alan Hull's 1973 albumPipedreamwhich usedThe Philosopher's Lamp,Jackson Browne's 1974 albumLate for the Sky,with artwork inspired byThe Empire of Light,Oregon's albumOregonreferring toCarte Blanche,theFiresign Theatre's albumJust Folks... A Firesign Chatbased onThe Mysteries of the Horizon,andStyx's albumThe Grand Illusionincorporating an adaptation of the paintingThe Blank Signature (Le Blanc Seing).The Nigerian rapper Jesse Jagz's 2014 albumJagz Nation Vol. 2: Royal Niger Companyhas cover art inspired by Magritte's works.[49]In 2015 the bandPunch BrothersusedThe Loversas the cover of their albumThe Phosphorescent Blues.[citation needed]

The logo ofApple Corps,The Beatles' company, is inspired by Magritte'sLe Jeu de Mourre,a 1966 painting.Paul Simon's song "Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War",inspired by a photograph of Magritte byLothar Wolleh,appears on the 1983 albumHearts and Bones.John Calewrote a song titled "Magritte". The song appears on the 2003 albumHoboSapiens.Tom Stoppardwrote a 1970 Surrealist play calledAfter Magritte.John Bergerscripted the bookWays of Seeingusing images and ideologies regarding Magritte.Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 bookGödel, Escher, Bachuses Magritte works for many of its illustrations.The Treachery of Imageswas used in a major plot inL. J. Smith's 1994 novelThe Forbidden Game.Magritte's imagery has inspiredfilmmakersranging from the surrealistMarcel Mariënto mainstream directors such asJean-Luc Godard,Alain Robbe-Grillet,Bernardo Bertolucci,Nicolas Roeg,John BoormanandTerry Gilliam.[50][51][52]

According to the 1998 documentaryThe Fear of God: 25 Years of "The Exorcist",the iconic poster shot for the filmThe Exorcistwas inspired by Magritte'sThe Empire of Light.

In the 1992 movieToys,Magritte's work was influential in the entire movie but specifically in a break-in scene, featuring Robin Williams and Joan Cusack in a music video hoax. Many of Magritte's works were used directly in that scene. In the 1999 movieThe Thomas Crown AffairstarringPierce Brosnan,Rene RussoandDenis Leary,the Magritte paintingThe Son of Manwas prominently featured as part of the plot line.

Gary Numan's 1979 albumThe Pleasure Principlewas a reference to Magritte's painting of the same name.

In John Green's fictional novel (2012) and movie (2014),The Fault in Our Stars,the main character Hazel Grace Lancaster wears a tee shirt with Magritte's,The Treachery of Images,(This is not a pipe.) Just prior to leaving her mother to visit her favorite author, Hazel explains the drawing to her confused mother and states that the author's novel has "several Magritte references", clearly hoping the author will be pleased with the reference.

The official music video ofMarkus Schulz's "Koolhaus" under his Dakota guise was inspired from Magritte's works.[53]

A street in Brussels has been namedCeci n'est pas une rue(This is not a street).[54]

Magritte Museum and other collections

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Main article:Magritte Museum
The copy of Magritte's "The Human Condition", on the facade of the New Middle School in Liebenau, Freistadt district.

The Magritte Museum opened to the public on 30 May 2009 inBrussels.[55]Housed in the five-level neo-classical Hotel Altenloh, on the Place Royale, it displays some 200 original Magritte paintings, drawings and sculptures[56]includingThe Return,ScheherazadeandThe Empire of Light.[57]This multidisciplinary permanent installation is the biggest Magritte archive anywhere and most of the work is directly from the collection of the artist's widow,Georgette Magritte,and fromIrene Hamoir Scutenaire,who was his primary collector.[58]Additionally, the museum includes Magritte's experiments with photography from 1920 on and the short Surrealist films he made from 1956 on.[58]

Another museum is located at 135 Rue Esseghem in Brussels in Magritte's former home, where he lived with his wife from 1930 to 1954.Olympia(1948), a nude portrait of Magritte's wife reportedly worth about US$1.1 million, was stolen from this museum on the morning of 24 September 2009 by two armed men.[59][60][61]It was returned to the museum in January 2012, in exchange for a 50,000-Euro payment from the museum's insurer. The thieves reportedly agreed to the deal because they were unable to sell the painting on theblack marketdue to its fame.[62]

TheMenil Collectionin Houston, Texas holds one of the most significant collections of dada and surrealist work in the United States, including dozens of oil paintings, gouaches, drawings, and bronzes by René Magritte.John de MenilandDominique de Menilinitiated and funded thecatalogue raisonnéof Magritte's oeuvre, published between 1992 and 1997 in five volumes, with an addendum in 2012. Major oil paintings in the Menil Collection include:The Meaning of Night(1927),The Eternally Obvious(1930),The Rape(1934),The Listening Room(1952), andGolconda(1953) which are typically exhibited a few at a time on a rotating basis with other surrealist works in the collection.[63]

Selected list of works

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Main article:List of paintings by René Magritte
  • 1920Landscape
  • 1922The StationandL'Écuyère
  • 1923Self-portrait,Sixth Nocturne,Georgette at the PianoandDonna
  • 1925The BatherandThe Window
  • 1926The Lost Jockey,The Mind of the Traveler,Sensational News,The Difficult Crossing,The Vestal's Agony,The Midnight Marriage,The Musings of a Solitary Walker,After the Water my Butts,Popular Panorama,LandscapeandThe Encounter
  • 1927The Enchanted Pose
  • 1927Young Girl Eating a Bird,The Oasis(started in 1925),Le Double Secret,The Meaning of Night,Let Out of School,The Man from the Sea,The Tiredness of Life,The Light-breaker,A Passion for Light,The Menaced Assassin,Reckless Sleeper,La Voleuse,The Fast Hope,L'AtlantideandThe Muscles of the Sky
  • 1928The Lining of Sleep(started in 1927),Intermission(started in 1927),The Adulation of Space(started in 1927),The Flowers of the Abyss,Discovery,The Lovers I & II,[6]The Voice of Space,The False Mirror,The Daring Sleeper,The Acrobat's Ideas,The Automaton,The Empty Mask,Reckless Sleeper,The Secret LifeandAttempting the Impossible
  • 1929The Treachery of Images(started in 1928),Threatening WeatherandOn the Threshold of Liberty
  • 1930Pink Belles, Tattered Skies,The Eternally Obvious,The Lifeline,The AnnunciationandCelestial Perfections
  • 1931The Voice of the Air,SummerandThe Giantess
  • 1932The Universe Unmasked
  • 1933Elective Affinities,The Human ConditionandThe Unexpected Answer
  • 1934The Rape
  • 1935The Discovery of Fire,The Human Condition,Revolution,Perpetual Motion,Collective InventionandThe Portrait
  • 1936Surprise Answer,Clairvoyance,The Healer,The Philosopher's Lamp,The Heart Revealed a portrait of Tita Thirifays,Spiritual Exercises,Portrait of Irène Hamoir,La MéditationandForbidden Literature
  • 1937The Future of Statues,The Black Flag,Not to be Reproduced,Portrait of Edward JamesandPortrait of Rena Schitz,On the Threshold of Liberty
  • 1938Time Transfixed,The Domain of Arnheim,Steps of SummerandStimulation Objective
  • 1939Victory,The Palace of Memories
  • 1940The Return,The Wedding BreakfastandLes Grandes Espérances
  • 1941The Break in the Clouds
  • 1942Misses de L'Isle Adam,L'Ile au Tréson,Memory,Black Magic,Les compagnons de la peurandThe Misanthropes
  • 1943The Return of the Flame,Universal GravitationandMonsieur Ingres's Good Days
  • 1944The Good Omens
  • 1945Treasure Island,Les Rencontres NaturellesandBlack Magic
  • 1946L'IntelligenceandLes Mille et une Nuits
  • 1947La Philosophie dans le boudoir,The Cicerone,The Liberator,The Fair Captive,La Part du FeuandThe Red Model
  • 1948Blood Will Tell,Memory,The Mountain Dweller,The Art of Life,The Pebble,The Lost Jockey,God's Solon,Shéhérazade,L'EllipseandFamineandThe Taste of Sorrow
  • 1949Megalomania,Elementary Cosmogony,andPerspective, the Balcony
  • 1950Making an Entrance,The Legend of the Centuries,Towards Pleasure,The Labors of Alexander,The Empire of Light II,The Fair CaptiveandThe Art of Conversation,The Survivor
  • 1951David's Madame Récamier(parodying thePortrait of Madame Récamier),Pandora's Box,The Song of the Violet,The Spring TideandThe Smile
  • 1952Personal ValuesandLe Sens de la PudeurandThe Explanation
  • 1953Golconda,The Listening Roomand a fresco,The Enchanted Domain,for theKnokke Casino,Le chant des sirènes
  • 1954The Invisible WorldandThe Empire of Light
  • 1955Memory of a JourneyandThe Mysteries of the Horizon
  • 1956The Sixteenth of September;The Ready-made Bouquet
  • 1957The Fountain of Youth;The Enchanted Domain
  • 1958The Golden Legend,Hegel's Holiday,The BanquetandThe Familiar World
  • 1959The Castle in the Pyrenees,The Battle of the Argonne,The Anniversary,The Month of the Grape HarvestandLa clef de verre(The Glass Key)
  • 1960The Memoirs of a Saint
  • 1962The Great Table,The Healer,Waste of Effort,Mona Lisa(circa 1962) andL'embeillie(circa 1962)
  • 1963The Great Family,The Open Air,The Beautiful Season,Princes of the Autumn,Young Love,La Recherche de la VéritéandThe Telescopeand "The Art of Conversation"
  • 1964Le soir qui tombe(Evening Falls),The Great War,The Great War on Facades,The Son of ManandSong of Love
  • 1965Le Blanc-Seing,Carte Blanche,The Thought Which Sees,Ages AgoandThe Beautiful Walk(circa 1965),Good Faith
  • 1966The Shades,The Happy Donor,The Gold Ring,The Pleasant Truth,The Two Mysteries,The PilgrimandThe Mysteries of the Horizon
  • 1967Les Grâces Naturelles,La Géante,The Blank Page,Good Connections,The Art of Living,L'Art de Vivreand several bronze sculptures based on Magritte's previous works

See also

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References

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