10/12/2023 0 Comments Magritte faceless portraitsThe Man In The Hat: Rene Magritte with Will Young is on ITV on Sunday at 10pm. Soundbite: "Humans hide their secrets too well." ![]() Key works: The Son of Man, The Human Condition. Way in: The Treachery of Images ("Ceci n'est pas une pipe"). René François Ghislain Magritte, November 1898-August 1967 At one stage, he said: "The thing about my paintings is they don't really mean anything." I don't believe that. But to be honest, I didn't like finding out about the man. Originally painted in 1964 as an oil on canvas and measuring 89cm by 116cm, this fascinating. It is possibly one of the most easily recognizable surrealist paintings and has become an iconic image, appearing in various formats, in numerous books, films and videos. I say in the film that I wanted to find out "what lies underneath the hat". Rene Magritte's painting titled The Son of Man is both puzzling and popular. We are, aren't we? Women are hard as nails. That's very telling and chimes with what I think: all men are babies. He's more about female empowerment, particularly when you see him in paintings as a tiny figure, alongside enormous women. Having just made a programme about him for ITV, I now think he had a love of women. There is some debate over whether Magritte was a chauvinist or pro-women. But I like to think that, if you look at the levels in my work, there's a lot to see. I'm a very well-to-do guy, very well meaning. Magritte was smart on the outside, rebellious on the inside, and that is kind of me. But I'm not like Usher, dancing around with babes in a car. In the video for Friday's Child, I'm swimming in a pool, topless, with ripped abs. In my videos, I often play characters who seem humorous at first, yet there's something else behind all that. My passion for Magritte has manifested itself subconsciously in a lot of my work. It's subtle yet weirdly obvious and echoes what I love in life – looking at things and going: "OK, I didn't think about that." He ran an advertising agency, Studio Dongo, with his brother, and brought the idea of language and titles into painting, saying he wanted ordinary objects to "utter a kind of scream". Rene Magritte Surrealism Artwork Reproductions Canvas Painting Faceless Posters and. ![]() There are so many other things a pipe is. ![]() So he's saying: "This isn't even my drawing of a pipe – it's a drawing of a drawing of a pipe." Then he's saying: "What is a pipe?" It could be a deliverer of cancer, or five minutes of peace a way of keeping out of an argument, or of hiding your feelings. But he's lifted the drawing from an encyclopaedia. Actually, it isn't a pipe – it's his drawing of a pipe. Underneath it are the words: "This is not a pipe." Now, that gets you thinking. One of his most famous works is a drawing of a pipe. But the minute he adds a title, everything changes. Magritte's works feature subjects that are not necessarily interesting: an apple, a pipe, a window, a bowler hat, a fireplace.
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