This beautiful painting is attributed to Rene Magritte; Les Amants –in French-, or as we know “The Lovers” was painted in oil, and it takes part of a series of pictures made between 1927-1928.
At first sight we can see this two mysterious couple, just about to kiss, but with the singularity that they are cover in with a white fabric.
The perfection of the technique, the tenderness in the canvas and the obvious surrealism of the pictures denotes the timeless importance of the Magritte’s painting.
However, the remarkable importance of The Lovers is its meaning.
The origin of this image has been attributed to various aspects. One of them is that Magritte –like lots of others Surrealists artists- were fascinated by “Fantomas”. Fantomas was a dark and shadowy hero, and it appeared in a film made by Louis Feuillade. The similarities of this terrorific hero and the painting are that Fantomas appeared in the films with a cloth or a stocking over his head.
Another source for the explanation of the covered heads of The Lovers suggested that was made in the memory of his mother, who apparently had committed suicide. The story said when Magritte was thirteen years old, his mother was found drowned in the river Sambre, in 1912; when her body was recovered from the river, her nightdress was supposedly wrapped around her head.
Even though all these tenebrous and bizarre explanation, there are a few affectionate meanings. The Lovers can be as well a description of “love is blind”. The common phrase used for all the people who are falling in love or who are very romantic.
I chose this Magritte’s painting because I personally think that the real meaning is that the picture show us how lovers are: they are blind for what they feel, the lovers don’t take a moment to think, they are impulsive, they just let themselves go with the feelings. For that reason The Lovers of Magritte represent the mystery that veils our understanding of a lover, who is never completely known to us.
To finish this text I will quote this about the painting: “Outwardly so ordinary, even absurd, this image becomes chillingly real in the mind's eye” (Loyd and Desmond, 1992, p.3).
For more information and too see more paintings of Magritte you can visit http://www.magritte.com/
Quotes from: http://nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=148052
At first sight we can see this two mysterious couple, just about to kiss, but with the singularity that they are cover in with a white fabric.
The perfection of the technique, the tenderness in the canvas and the obvious surrealism of the pictures denotes the timeless importance of the Magritte’s painting.
However, the remarkable importance of The Lovers is its meaning.
The origin of this image has been attributed to various aspects. One of them is that Magritte –like lots of others Surrealists artists- were fascinated by “Fantomas”. Fantomas was a dark and shadowy hero, and it appeared in a film made by Louis Feuillade. The similarities of this terrorific hero and the painting are that Fantomas appeared in the films with a cloth or a stocking over his head.
Another source for the explanation of the covered heads of The Lovers suggested that was made in the memory of his mother, who apparently had committed suicide. The story said when Magritte was thirteen years old, his mother was found drowned in the river Sambre, in 1912; when her body was recovered from the river, her nightdress was supposedly wrapped around her head.
Even though all these tenebrous and bizarre explanation, there are a few affectionate meanings. The Lovers can be as well a description of “love is blind”. The common phrase used for all the people who are falling in love or who are very romantic.
I chose this Magritte’s painting because I personally think that the real meaning is that the picture show us how lovers are: they are blind for what they feel, the lovers don’t take a moment to think, they are impulsive, they just let themselves go with the feelings. For that reason The Lovers of Magritte represent the mystery that veils our understanding of a lover, who is never completely known to us.
To finish this text I will quote this about the painting: “Outwardly so ordinary, even absurd, this image becomes chillingly real in the mind's eye” (Loyd and Desmond, 1992, p.3).
For more information and too see more paintings of Magritte you can visit http://www.magritte.com/
Quotes from: http://nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=148052
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