René Magritte artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Untitled

The Belgian artist René Magritte, along with Paul Delvaux, is one of the best-known representatives of magical realism. Magritte owes his fame to his meticulous realistic depictions of everyday objects in unusual combinations or in an unusual context. Using techniques such as paintings within paintings, combinations of eroticism and everydayness and distortion of scale and perspective, he transformed ordinary images and objects into mysterious representations so that the viewer thinks about it. The artist was interested in the controle of our mind (ratio) in the way we humans think and look at art and he wanted to make us, the viewer, aware of this. In that sense, his work was closely related to surrealism, although the surrealist painters also drew on their subconscious. The titles Magritte gave to his works of art contributed to the awareness-raising process he intended. so that the spectator thinks about it.