Autumn Rhythm (number 30) by Jackson Pollock, 1950 Surrealist painter René Magritte once wrote in a letter to André Bosmans that: “All the abstract paintings reveal only abstract painting, and absolutely nothing else. (…) I cannot share an interest in what abstract painting is able to say, which was summed up once and for all by the first abstract painting.”1 Well, if it isn't...
"The Lovers" - René Magritte A post about Magritte and Wagner but Chevy Chase will make a brief appearance. “What I paint is addressed to those who “live” in the present, or rather, for it… An artist who paints for posterity has an intention that I do not have. In my opinion, he is doing something idiots understand very well – those who...
Hegel's Vacation - René Magritte Source "My latest picture began with the question: how to paint a picture with a glass of water as the subject? I drew a number of glasses of water, a line always appeared in these drawings. Then this line became deformed and took the form of an umbrella. Then this umbrella was put into the glass, and finally...
