Rene Magritte:
Majority of us like things to be normal as possible and surrealist are the total opposite. They love surprise and anything that is unusual and unique. From their work of art, we see their love and passion towards surrealism. When, I was “googleing” surreal arts, I came towards a particular piece known as “The lovers” by Rene Magritte. Rene Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. From his work, he wanted to challenge observers’ preconditioned acuities of reality and make them become more hypersensitive to their surroundings. His loves for art begin by the age of twelve where he attended informal art classes and started drawing and painting. By the age of fourteen, he lost his mother who drowned herself.
When I first glanced at the “The lovers” painting, I was confused, interested, and curious. I thought about many things; however, the questions that I really wanted to know were why he would choose to cover the faces of the people in the picture? Is he trying to send a message? And how does he come up with such paintings? After reading more about his childhood, I learned that after his mother’s suicide, they found her body which was covered with her nightdress and shroud. Therefore, the covered faces that he uses in his printings might be the memories of his mother.
To be completely honest, I personally love simplicity and beauty. I believe that art should make an individual feel happy, must be pleasing to watch and observe. However, surreal art has its own definition; it makes an individual think outside the box, makes them feel strange, and it goes beyond the creative world. After investigating it and seeing the other side of it. I became to love the bizarreness of it. I would love to create a surreal painting and investigate further on the ideas of surreal art and poetry.
