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Post by BSam on Apr 6, 2004 0:31:59 GMT -5
the painter Rene Magritte is cool theres a documentry on him tonight i don't want to miss... he's the guy who painted neggies avatar and one of my old ones sorry, make that neggies OLD avatar... oh well...i'll post my ones he painted
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Post by BSam on Apr 6, 2004 1:10:22 GMT -5
www.sbs.com.au/whatson/index.php3?id=621Masterpiece: Rene Magritte: An Attempt At The Impossible Tuesday April 6th at 10.00pm Rene Francoise Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist painter, born in Lessines. He studied at the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. His first one-man exhibition was in Brussels in 1927. At that time, Magritte had already begun to paint in the style – closely akin to surrealism – that was predominant throughout his career. A meticulous and skilful technician, he is noted for works that contain an extraordinary juxtaposition of ordinary objects or an unusual context that gives new meaning to familiar things. This juxtaposition is frequently termed magic realism, of which Magritte was the prime exponent. In addition to fantastic elements, he displayed a mordant wit, creating surrealist versions of famous paintings, as in Madame Recaimer de David (1949) in which an elaborate coffin is substituted for the reclining woman in the famous Jacques Louis David portrait. This documentary - screening in the Masterpiece timeslot on Tuesday April 6 @ 10.00pm, approaches and explores the subject of Magritte and his work within his own poetic context. For sixty years or more, his little spherical bells, floating rocks, terrifying temptresses and pipes have been popping up in many forms of our cultural and social lives- from advertising to music videos and cover illustrations. In fact, no other painter of this century has been so widely reproduced, borrowed and imitated as Magritte.
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Post by MambaduMal on Apr 6, 2004 14:31:58 GMT -5
Magritte is one of my favorite artists... we studied him a bit when we were doing surrealism in art class.
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Post by lucklemony on Apr 6, 2004 18:14:52 GMT -5
never heard of the guy
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Post by BSam on Apr 6, 2004 18:35:09 GMT -5
the doco was a little dissapointing...
but it was still interesting...
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Post by Celinra on Apr 9, 2004 9:14:31 GMT -5
It was from one of his paintings that The Beatles named their record company and made it's logo (Apple Records). I like his work, it's really interesting. I especially like the "This is not a pipe" picture (it was one of the paintings we looked at in art class this year, too).
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Post by esmesqualor3 on Apr 9, 2004 9:17:23 GMT -5
I've been doin gsome research on this artist and this one's my favourite:
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