On March 17, an exhibition dedicated to the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte opened at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Kinneret Zohar-Lahav, lecturer in art and archaeology, offers us a background lecture designed to understand the world of art created by one of the most original and influential artists of the 20th century.
The Belgian Magritte was born in 1899 to a milliner and cloth merchant. Exposure to color and texture were elements that naturally surrounded him and influenced him as an adult artist. He experimented with all the accepted painting styles: Impressionism, Cubism, and Futurism until he found his true voice in the Surrealist movement.
Magritte's works serve as a "window" that offers us a look into a reality parallel to our own: the landscapes are similar, but the combinations, the subversion of the laws of gravity, and the changing scale of the objects create surprise, laughter, and sometimes a sense of discomfort.
Magritte refuses to give an interpretation to his works. For him, the experience of painting and viewing them is likened to playing in a maze. Magritte's works are mesmerizing and offer us a different interpretation of what surrounds us.
You can hear about all of this, and of course also about the works displayed in the exhibition, in this lecture.
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