Rene Magritte
PRELIM CASE STUDY – René Magritte
René
Magritte
The Red Model (French: La Modèle rouge) 1935 Oil on canvas laminated onto cardboard
56 x 46 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France http://www.abcgallery.com/M/magritte/magritte19.html
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studied at the Académie des Beaux-‐Arts in Brussels
began as a draftsman in a carpet factory pattern, designed advertising posters, painter in a wallpaper factory
1927 to 1930 he lived in Paris -‐ came into contact with the French Surrealist movement of André Breton
Artwork characterised by scenes in which objects and people in an unusual manner are combined/juxtaposed and in unusual ways Works confronted the viewer
The Red Model • an impossible image that looks deceptively real.
• The fence in this picture seems perfectly real but the foot-‐boots do not
• Their meaning is a mystery.
• A title usually helps with an incomprehensible scene.
• 'The red model' -‐ red? model? -‐ just adds to the confusion.
Is there a still life or a portrait fragmented?
Is it the metamorphosis of feet in shoes, a body lowered to the level of object or shoes that eventually become human?
The visual pun is not only fun, it causes our thinking, if only by its title ... This "model"
The red colour evoked
René
Magritte
The Red Model (French: La Modèle rouge) 1935 Oil on canvas laminated onto cardboard
56 x 46 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France http://www.abcgallery.com/M/magritte/magritte19.html
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studied at the Académie des Beaux-‐Arts in Brussels
began as a draftsman in a carpet factory pattern, designed advertising posters, painter in a wallpaper factory
1927 to 1930 he lived in Paris -‐ came into contact with the French Surrealist movement of André Breton
Artwork characterised by scenes in which objects and people in an unusual manner are combined/juxtaposed and in unusual ways Works confronted the viewer
The Red Model • an impossible image that looks deceptively real.
• The fence in this picture seems perfectly real but the foot-‐boots do not
• Their meaning is a mystery.
• A title usually helps with an incomprehensible scene.
• 'The red model' -‐ red? model? -‐ just adds to the confusion.
Is there a still life or a portrait fragmented?
Is it the metamorphosis of feet in shoes, a body lowered to the level of object or shoes that eventually become human?
The visual pun is not only fun, it causes our thinking, if only by its title ... This "model"
The red colour evoked