Magritte

by 40 Color Illustrations (Illustrator)

Rene Magritte, a master of fantastic art, was born in Lessines, Belgium in 1898, and despite the age in which he lived - the growth of mass media and mass communication - preferred to live his life in a small suburb of Brussels, painting what he liked to pain and caring little for the theories of his Surrealist contemporaries. The forth paintings illustrated in this book need no words - what Magritte did more than anything else was to p aint meticulously familliar, even personal objects, in unfamiliar, even startling settings - out of context at first sight in both time and place. If beauty lies in the eye of the beholder then so too does understanding - in the interpretation of Magritte's work the eye, the mind and the heart all compete without a fixed formula or equation but with equal claims.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Tentatively, Convenience · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yes, I love Magritte's paintings. Yes, I love Surrealist painting in general. Yes, I love many non-Surrealist works even more than Surrealist paintings. Yes, sometimes Magritte's paintings are too simple & obvious for me. Yes, nonetheless, I love Magritte's paintings & this collection is probably as good as any other & was very cheap at the time.

[TrumanCoyote · Rating 2 out of 5]

That rating is for the paintings only, not for anything else in this book. Maybe the intros in all of these sorts of things are sheer genius...but I wouldn't know about that. :)

[Yi · Rating 1 out of 5]

A huge waste of paper with too much blank space.