The Guardian has published an article examining the comic sensibilities of René Magritte, and his deliberately succinct style of painting that some liken to its own brand of a visual punchline. “Magritte always claimed he was against interpretation,” says Professor Elsa Adamowicz. “His images suggest narratives or meaning, but that meaning is suspended, as in our dreams.”
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February 26th, 2015 at 6:38 am
It was interesting to read the article on Magritte by Charlie Skelton (from a comic writers point of view)- Perhaps the article would have been more interesting (for a non artist reader) had he mentioned how Magritte first came about with his ‘perverse’ images. Of course I refer to the story of how woke in a room (one night in 1936) where there was a cage with a sleeping bird and a “magnificent error” made him see an egg instead of a bird. He his reported to have said that he had discovered a “new poetical secret” by the error. Everything else he created stemmed from this apparently.