![]() ![]() ![]() The dialectical pairs that structure the world of his imagination appear in painting after painting: natural and artificial, interior and exterior, impulsive and rational. In La Condition humaine (The Human Condition) (1935), which is featured in the exhibition, Magritte focused on the problem of the window establishing links between inside and outside, the seen and the hidden, nature and culture, picture and landscape. He viewed his painting as a kind of equation in which he ascribed to each work the solution to a “problem” in accordance with a dialectic principle. Magritte painted pictures whose meanings were intended to be universal. His motifs–pipe, apple, melon, candle, curtain, flame, shadow, fragment, and hat, etc–recur in various different combinations and contexts in his paintings. Pursuing a quasi-scientific approach, the artist imbued his visual language with the objectivity of a vocabulary. He defended the intellectual dignity of his art as long as he lived and sought to elevate his painting initially to the level of poetry and eventually to that of philosophy. Magritte was unwilling to accept that premise. The expression “the stupidity of painters” that was commonly heard near the end of the nineteenth century, reflects the philosophical opinion that poetry ranked above painting and words above images. In contrast to the methods based on dream and automatism postulated by the Parisian Surrealists associated with André Breton, Magritte’s unparalleled visual language was grounded in the specifically Belgian manifestation of Surrealism, which called for the application of a dialectic method and scientific thinking. René Magritte is one of the most important painters of the twentieth century. Magritte developed a kind of painting that postulated a relationship of equivalence between vision and thought, between the visual image and the word as the expression of thinking and knowing.” René Magritte never put up with the expression “stupidity of painters” to which the Parisian Surrealists subscribed, relentlessly asserting the intellectual dignity of his art with his paintbrush, first against poets and later against philosophers. From Plato to Hegel, philosophy dismissed all figurative representation as confusion of the senses, considering poetry to be the most accomplished vector of the Spirit. Stupidity of paintersĭidier Ottinger, exhibition curator, comments: “There was a hierarchy stultified by centuries of philosophy that ranked composers and poets above painters, and words far above images. Other essential pictorial formulas are concerned with legends and myths associated with the invention and definition of painting. His word pictures reflect his fundamental views on the relationship between language and visual imagery. The exhibition sheds light on Magritte’s philosophical investigations in five chapters. Driven by his curiosity and his affinities with some of the leading philosophers of his age, such as Michael Foucault, he created a remarkable body of work and developed an altered view of the world that is reflected in a unique combination of masterfully precise painting and conceptual processes. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Throughout his life he sought to imbue painting with meaning equal to that of language. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. ![]() We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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