Yu Tin Liu
Professor Champion
Arth 1381
30 March 2017
Art History Museum paper
"The rape" and "The Red Model" was a work created by an artist called Rene Magritte during the early twentieth century. Both measuring approximately thirteen inches in length. This beautiful yet disturbing painting, automatically attract the viewer's attention and drag them into the masterpiece to figure out the combination, connection and motions of the art piece being displayed on the wall. It plays with the viewer's mind with its similar composition between two things that make us repeatedly question our self and kept our eyes from leaving the image. The drawings of "The Rape" is one of the many drawing that he has the image and idea of his mother in …show more content…
The unsure joint between the feet and the shoes digs up our curiosity and undermines our daily life conceptual polarity. To think between shoes or feet, human or demon, inside or outside, civilization or wilderness. To combine human feet with leather shoe to form a new expression and demonstrates the hybridization and monstrosity. The frightening reversal reveals a monstrous habit when the outside becomes inside. The awareness of the "thing's" foot and the hybridity of such combination evoke a bizarre feeling which could be designated as monstrous creature, such as Medusa, gazes at the viewer and freezes his sight. The monstrosity encompasses three levels of meaning. Monstrous being, monstrosity of being, and becoming monstrous. The aesthetic perception or construction of a bizarre sight. Designates the ontological grasping of an alien world that belongs to the realm of infinity or totality. In the ethical sense, what is monstrous does not lie in the naming of an alien situation, but in the …show more content…
The way he shows his figures in a suggestive, but yet unsure manner where each viewer sees completely different definition of the work, made his creations extremely desirable. Many of his work has been spread and used in books, advertisements, and many other things, because of his distinct style, and the inability of other artists to recreate a similar style. Which also have a high impact on the popular culture and the art world. "Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. ” (Magritte) The art work "The Rape" and "The Red Model" from the Menil collection, are both created by Rene Magritte. The most well known and leading surrealist artist known in the world. Even though Rene died during 1967 from pancreatic cancer, majoirty of his work is still being displayed around the world, as well as the town that he was born. His work introduced a new style, and he was the most influencial in the surrealist style. And as well as making people look at art in a complete new way, with his scultures, paintings, and drawings he created throughout his life
Professor Champion
Arth 1381
30 March 2017
Art History Museum paper
"The rape" and "The Red Model" was a work created by an artist called Rene Magritte during the early twentieth century. Both measuring approximately thirteen inches in length. This beautiful yet disturbing painting, automatically attract the viewer's attention and drag them into the masterpiece to figure out the combination, connection and motions of the art piece being displayed on the wall. It plays with the viewer's mind with its similar composition between two things that make us repeatedly question our self and kept our eyes from leaving the image. The drawings of "The Rape" is one of the many drawing that he has the image and idea of his mother in …show more content…
The unsure joint between the feet and the shoes digs up our curiosity and undermines our daily life conceptual polarity. To think between shoes or feet, human or demon, inside or outside, civilization or wilderness. To combine human feet with leather shoe to form a new expression and demonstrates the hybridization and monstrosity. The frightening reversal reveals a monstrous habit when the outside becomes inside. The awareness of the "thing's" foot and the hybridity of such combination evoke a bizarre feeling which could be designated as monstrous creature, such as Medusa, gazes at the viewer and freezes his sight. The monstrosity encompasses three levels of meaning. Monstrous being, monstrosity of being, and becoming monstrous. The aesthetic perception or construction of a bizarre sight. Designates the ontological grasping of an alien world that belongs to the realm of infinity or totality. In the ethical sense, what is monstrous does not lie in the naming of an alien situation, but in the …show more content…
The way he shows his figures in a suggestive, but yet unsure manner where each viewer sees completely different definition of the work, made his creations extremely desirable. Many of his work has been spread and used in books, advertisements, and many other things, because of his distinct style, and the inability of other artists to recreate a similar style. Which also have a high impact on the popular culture and the art world. "Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. ” (Magritte) The art work "The Rape" and "The Red Model" from the Menil collection, are both created by Rene Magritte. The most well known and leading surrealist artist known in the world. Even though Rene died during 1967 from pancreatic cancer, majoirty of his work is still being displayed around the world, as well as the town that he was born. His work introduced a new style, and he was the most influencial in the surrealist style. And as well as making people look at art in a complete new way, with his scultures, paintings, and drawings he created throughout his life