The 600 Artworks created around 1975 and containing the word rene magritte, surrealism, 1975

The Large Family ('La Grande Famille') was created by Rene Magritte in 1963. At first glance, one immediately questions the appropriateness of the title for there is no image of a family, human or otherwise. However, that should not come as a surprise as Magritte was well-known to derive great pleas...

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The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a short wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. The man'...

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Renoir sold this painting to the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who supported the impressionists, after its completion. The painting, arguably one of Renoir’s most famous works, contains many of Renoir’s close friends, including his future wife, relaxing at the Maison Fournaise along the Seine River. ...

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I have never laid eyes on René Magritte.I may be mistaken, but it has always been my impression that he didn’t have much of a sense of humour. Was he suffering from great loneliness or inner coldness? I am not particularly outgoing myself, but I see something unwelcoming, or at least something that’...

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Pitting the arts against one another – which one might be the most sublime – may not seem to make much sense, and yet the attempt has been made over and over again and decided in favour of one’s own faculty.The musicians argue that theirs is the highest form of art because it addresses the most ethe...

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As Bacon remarked to British art critic David Sylvester in 1975, 'I loathe my own face . . . I’ve done a lot of self-portraits, really because people have been dying around me like flies and I’ve nobody else left to paint but myself.' This striking triptych, featuring a head emerging from a deep aby...

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A tomato-red, oval floating in a field of blue-violet nearly fills this horizontal abstract painting. A thin, vertical, gently waving line and a black dot float near the red oval, near the upper right corner of the canvas. The red oval is wider at our right side, like an egg. The oval, wavy line, an...

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