in many of the paintings of Rene' Magritte?
2007-06-21 02:52:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
When Magritte was a child his mother drowned herself...when the body was recovered her nightdress was swept over her face...any clue here?
2007-06-21 11:24:21 · update #1
Some see it as an homage to his mother...
2007-06-21 13:31:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a radio interview discussing his painting "The Son of Man" Magritte answered the question why he de-personalizes the human subject by masking its individualizing identifier--the face.". Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present."
Experience has taught us that there should be a face behind the apple that hides the space where the face shold be, so we readily imagine it. Magritte wishes to call into question the ease with which we unconsciously "fill in" what is hidden and faith we have in our beliefs. Nowhere does Magritte mention a connection between the manner in which his mother died and his tendency to cover up the faces he paints
2007-06-22 01:19:27 · answer #2 · answered by angela l 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a practice made by many a group of people around the world. It's significance is the idea, that is not what a person looks like but rather the condition of their heart.
Magritte is merely reminding his audience of this noble character.
2007-06-21 12:20:23 · answer #3 · answered by Cheech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well...some say he wasn't that good a painter (including himself). But usually it is to emphasize the 'impersonal' touch to the painting on one side and the 'it could be everybody, including you' on the other side.
2007-06-21 18:21:05 · answer #4 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was really bad at painting faces?
To give the painting some anonymity? <--- I think that'd be more likely...
2007-06-21 18:31:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to see into the eyes is known to see into ones soul. hence covering of faces, and not for just anyone to see or know
2007-06-21 09:59:28 · answer #6 · answered by chachacatz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just that him seeing this was Prominent is his amant series of paintings
2007-06-21 18:41:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
guess he never gor over it, and the memory will remain forever. either that or he pictures very ugly people in his work.
2007-06-22 04:04:06 · answer #8 · answered by otsy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he didn't want to see the dead eyes of his mother!!
i guess i'm not too creative!!hehe!
2007-06-21 19:07:39 · answer #9 · answered by ....FED UP............ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋