Copyright: Rene Magritte,Fair Use
This poster for the International festival of cinema and fine arts in Brussels was made by René Magritte in 1947. The image is dominated by a bust, maybe a Roman or Greek sculpture, but the twist is that the face is taken out of the face by a rectangle. The artist has used a limited palette, blues, reds, and browns, and the colors are laid down in flat blocks, which adds to the surreal effect. It's kind of like he's collaging with paint. That rectangular space where the face should be is so weird. It’s like Magritte is saying that cinema and fine arts are about seeing, but also about not seeing or questioning what you see. It makes you think about how we fill in the blanks, how we create meaning from fragments. His approach to colour feels like it's in conversation with someone like Matisse, although he arrives at something so different. What does it mean when an image looks back at you? It probably means you are in the presence of art.
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