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Magritte or the Object Lesson

Magritte or the Object Lesson (1960)

1960-01-01 · 14 min · Rating 5.82/10 (11 votes)

The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of mystery consists of images of familiar things gathered or transformed in such a way that they no longer conform to our ideas, whether naive or wise.

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