That is really impressive for someone who only lived one year!
Seriously though, that is awesome.
Huh. It does read like that. But I just copied the format that @craftyindividual uses for the date of the artwork rather than the birth/death date of the painter.
either i don’t get it or… bah?
snake-candles?
who returns what to nature?
It’s surrealism, so it’s not meant to be realistic. Likely, the candles are returning to nature but that’s my guess. It might just be the user(s) of these candles instead.
Magritte’s work frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. […]
René Magritte described his paintings as “visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, ‘What does that mean?’. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.”
thanks for the context, dear interwebs stranger!
I like it because it is weird!
I love Magritte, but I’ve never seen this one before. It’s pretty great. Always nice to see something new from a favorite artist.
If you’re ever in Brussels…
And now I realise I’m missing ‘The Lair of the White Worm’, Ta!
This also goes into my art collection (do you not?) because it’s mad, bad and … excellent generative fodder. Also Ta.
