Influences or inspirations and techniques of Rene Magritte. My research for this group presentation involves studying the influences that ultimately inspired Rene Magritte's work and what techniques he would use when painting. One of the major concepts behind his work was the appeal of the human unconscious and Magritte often portrayed works where the subject would blur the lines between the rational and irrational. Magritte's work is quite realistic and illustrative and this technique allows him to depict images accurately yet the subject or psychology behind the painting/work is actually very surreal and dreamlike. One of Magritte's most favourite concepts that influenced his work was the 'picture within a picture' technique, which he
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Some of his paintings could be interpreted as self portraits (such as the men in bowler hats), others feature his wife Georgette, and their apartment in Brussels makes an appearance every so often. Magritte's art and development as an artist was influenced during his childhood was his encounter with a painter in a cemetery and state it was as if 'he were performing magic'. The second event being the suicide of his mother when he was 14, it is believed that the sight of her body and her head wrapped in the cloth of her dress left a long lasting impression on him or trauma, which has led to the myth that because of this event the image of a persons' head covered tightly with cloth is a reoccurring theme within Magritte's later …show more content…
He also drew inspiration from Orphism (a type of cubism but pure abstraction and brighter colours), Futurism and Purism (emphasis on the purity of form and rejection of cubism by returning to representing recognisable object), his most common subject in this period was the female nude. His biggest source of inspiration was the influence of Giorgio de Chirico, in 1925 Magritte saw the 'Metaphysical Paintings' of De Chirico and thus caused him to switch to a new style of painting inspired by surrealism and the dreamlike illogicality they depicted. An example of this in works such as 'The Menaced Assassin' (1925) which uses the same magic realism techniques to express the mystery of the world through the combination of
Some of his paintings could be interpreted as self portraits (such as the men in bowler hats), others feature his wife Georgette, and their apartment in Brussels makes an appearance every so often. Magritte's art and development as an artist was influenced during his childhood was his encounter with a painter in a cemetery and state it was as if 'he were performing magic'. The second event being the suicide of his mother when he was 14, it is believed that the sight of her body and her head wrapped in the cloth of her dress left a long lasting impression on him or trauma, which has led to the myth that because of this event the image of a persons' head covered tightly with cloth is a reoccurring theme within Magritte's later …show more content…
He also drew inspiration from Orphism (a type of cubism but pure abstraction and brighter colours), Futurism and Purism (emphasis on the purity of form and rejection of cubism by returning to representing recognisable object), his most common subject in this period was the female nude. His biggest source of inspiration was the influence of Giorgio de Chirico, in 1925 Magritte saw the 'Metaphysical Paintings' of De Chirico and thus caused him to switch to a new style of painting inspired by surrealism and the dreamlike illogicality they depicted. An example of this in works such as 'The Menaced Assassin' (1925) which uses the same magic realism techniques to express the mystery of the world through the combination of