René Magritte: Great Art Explained

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In The Lovers II, by Magritte, he takes the cinematic cliché but disrupts our voyeuristic pleasure by covering the faces in cloth. A moment of connection becomes one of isolation, of sexual frustration. An intimate moment becomes something dark and effortlessly disturbing. Something hidden and anonymous.

Rene Magritte denied that his traumatic childhood was connected in any way with his art, but in this episode, I look at the possibility that his past affected him more than he admitted.

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BOOKS, CATALOGUES AND ESSAYS
Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev
Rene Magritte: The Artist's Materials by Catherine Defeyt, Francisca Vandepitte, et al.
Magritte: The Treachery of Images by Didier Ottinger
René Magritte: The Revealing Image by Xavier Canonne
Ways of Seeing by John Berger

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