The Menaced Assassin was exhibited in Rene Magritte first solo exhibition in 1927.

The Menaced Assassin was regarded as one of Rene Magritte’s largest and most theatrical works. Rene was also the fan of the crime fiction and the pre First World War. The Murderous Corpse was the film released in 1913 from which Rene Magritte inspired and painted the two detectives like figures near the doorframe. As the name suggests, the main subject of the painting was a nude woman lying on a nearby couch and her body was smeared with blood. A standing nearby well-dressed man was the assassin of her and was ready to leaving the room while leaving behind his coat and a hat. He put those things on a chair placed near his bag. He was feeling somewhat relaxed manner and delayed due to the sound of the music which was coming from the gramophone being placed on the table. On the far left and far right of the painting, two man were standing definitely his colleagues armed with clubs and net were waiting for him. Behind the assassin was a window from which three other men were also watching. The dimensions of the painting The Menaced Assassin were 150.4 cm × 195.2 cm or 59.2 in × 76.9 in.

The work can be viewed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Rene Magritte was only 30 years old when The Lovers was painted.

The lovers was painted by Rene Magritte in which two figures naturally male and a female were locked in an embrace. The face of both of these figures was covered with a cloth and they were kissing one another through veils. They both were placed in a room having a side wall, back wall and a ceiling. The back wall was painted with light grey and blue shaded color on the bottom of the wall while the top half of the wall contains a darker shade of the color. The wall adjacent to it was brick red with light shade at the bottom of the painting joined with the darker shade from top to the adjacent wall. The ceiling of the room was white along the border of the side wall with decorative borders. The border does not continue towards the back wall.

The male subject as painted was wearing a black suit with a white shirt and a tie. The woman on the other hand was in a red garment which was sleeveless and trimmed. The woman skin is tanned as depicted by the arm that was exposed. Rene Magritte painted the male figure in much dominated posture as compared to the woman. The man leans down to kiss the woman and the woman tilts her head up for the man.

Rene Magritte was only 14 years old when his mother committed suicide through drowning into the water. He witnessed his mother’s body when she died and had her wet nightgown covering her face completely. It was thus speculated that this scene inspired Rene Magritte to cover the face of these figures too. The dimensions of the painting The Lovers were 73.4 cm x 54 cm or 21 3/8 in x 28 7/8 in.

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The False Mirror painting style was Surrealist art and it also been referred to as magical realism.

Rene Magritte’s painting The False Mirror was completed during the ongoing World War I when several artists come to terms when these scared environments and conflicts were prevailing. Many other artists of
Rene Magritte include Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, and Man Ray painted similar paintings depicting the human eye. The painting was both symmetrical through its horizontal and vertical lines and the color of the pupil at the center of the eye which draws viewer’s attention. The use of a particular scene in The False Mirror depicts to challenge the viewer in terms of there thinking. Here, the viewer thought that what they really know, does it correspond to what they saw in the painting.

The false mirror title was provided by another Belgian Surrealist writer Paul Nouge. The title justifies itself as to the iris was replaced with the blue sky partly filled with clouds. Rene Magritte single eye functions dual as to when the viewer looks through the eye, it seems as if it looks through a window and was looked at by it.

Rene Magritte surprises viewers by removing the pupil from the eyes repositioning the pupil at the center of it while the sky scene captures the area around the eyes. The dimensions of the painting The False Mirror were 54 x 80.9 cm or 21.1/4 in x 31.7/8 in.

The work can be viewed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

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The size of the painting compared with the level of detail, here it reveals how Salvador Dali managed to compress many things in his canvas, and why he was known as the great talent of miniaturists.

In this painting Illumined Pleasures, Dali’s middlebox was similar to the one used in The Great Mastur:bator and a self-portrayed of himself. On the left-hand side of the painting, there was another box from which a man shoots at a rock. This rock symbolizes as the head of the person from which blood was flowing from the holes that were created by to bullets. The blood flowing from the head and nose symbolizes the fear. Dali’s painting Illumined Pleasures was rather filled with violent images. In the foreground of the painting, the couple seems to be struggling.

The luminous imagery projected on to the boxes of theater-like structure dominated the painting and its composition such that the title of this picture coincides close to it. Dali had to show a disjunction between the illusion world and the reality which he experienced in the darkness of a theater. The dimensions of the painting Illumined Pleasures were 34.7 x 23.8 cm or 9 3/8 in x 13 3/4 in.

Dali’s head appears through the middle theater shaped like box placed in the middle while universal dreams and anxiety role play below. This scene displays the script of Un Chien Andalou which was being shot and published in La Revolution surrealist later in a journal. Many other Surrealist painters had used these theater shaped like box in their paintings.

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Mama, Papa is wounded title was taken from the psychiatric textbooks.

This painting evokes a post-apocalyptic wasteland through its vast surface and light. The work of great Surrealist artist Giorgio de Chirico was being inspired in this painting through the objects flying and casting their dark shadows on the surface. A cactus like figure similar to a spider was floating near the horizon seems neither free nor in captivity. The title of the painting Mama, Papa is wounded does not clarify the picture meaning because Surrealism art says that there should be a relationship with the pictures and words used to describe them. Yves Tanguy with Breton help who knew the method of Sigmund Freud in treating the damaged soldiers psychologically prepared notes and ideas from the damaged soldiers to use those words and meaning as the title and images ideas for the painting.

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One of the most perceptible modern pieces of art and has been considered as one of the many inspiring works by poets and musicians and also frequently parodied.

Rousseau described the subject of The Sleeping Gypsy thus: “A wandering Negress, a mandolin player, lies with her jar beside her (a vase with drinking water), overcome by fatigue in a deep sleep. A lion chances to pass by, picks up her scent yet does not devour her. There is a moonlight effect, very poetic.”

The night is clear, woman’s face is peaceful, probably she is dreaming something pleasant, and the lion too looks calm. The impression one gets is harmony between mankind and nature, but lion’s tail is raised and woman is holding the stick in hand, suggesting that harmony is more illusory than real. Both lion and woman, are on the alert, warning that the trust between two worlds may get violated anytime

One of the most perceptible modern pieces of art and has been considered as one of the many inspiring works by poets and musicians and also frequently parodied.

Rousseau described the subject of The Sleeping Gypsy thus: “A wandering Negress, a mandolin player, lies with her jar beside her (a vase with drinking water), overcome by fatigue in a deep sleep. A lion chance to pass by picks up her scent yet does not devour her. There is a moonlight effect, very poetic.”

The work can be viewed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

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One of the most relevant post-impressionistic pieces of artand has been considered as one of the finest and most recognized paintings of Vincent van Gogh.

Before The Starry Night is painted, van Gogh had suffered a nervous breakdown resulted in self-mutilation of his left ear and after that he voluntary went to the asylum. It is assumed that the painted sky was view from window of his room in the asylum, but the village was not visible from this window, so it had to be painted from memory. Van Gogh loved and understood nature and felt that it teaches us to see truly. Nocturnal sky is a repeated motif in van Gogh’s art, obviously it was obsessing him.Painting analyzes moon, bright stars, and whirling sky creating illusion of continuous movement.The cypress tree links earth and sky, and it is significant for interpretation of work, as cypress is frequently associated with cemeteries and mourning.Used technique is distinctive; tick brushstrokes are recognizable, powerful and almost inarticulate. An interesting fact is that during lifetime his works were enjoyed almost no prestige.

The work can be viewed at Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.

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Probably the most memorable painting of popular culture, which is best known as Melting Clocks and has been considered as Surrealism itself, just as Dali.

The main motifs of the painting are melting clocks and ants. The theme is time, expressed in a multitude of meanings. Ants appear as a symbol of decay in Dalí’s works and clock is a symbol of time. Melting clocks suggest that the time is melting, representing its relativity. The painting depicts a landscape, the seaside and cliffs, probably of the artist’s homeland in Catalonia, Spain. In the central part of the composition, there is a being, possibly human, with nose and closed eye, having long eyelashes. The artist was talking about his paintings as they are hand-painted dream photographs. Although the dreams belong to sphere of subconscious, Dalí painted them with incredible precision.

The work can be viewed at Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.

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