Artwork Replica The lovers, 1928 by Rene Magritte (Inspired By) (1898-1967, Belgium) | WahooArt.com

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"The lovers"

Rene Magritte (i) - Oil On Canvas (i) - 54 x 73 cm - 1928 - Surrealism (i)
Masks were a common motif in Magritte’s paintings, his works were meant to provoke thought and allow the viewer to form their own interpretations.in 1928, he painted four variations of The Lovers, where he displays a loving couple but their faces are shrouded with pieces of cloth. Magritte was intrigued by a character in a novel and subsequent films, ‘Fantomas’, a masked hero whose identity was never revealed. It was also speculated that his mother’s suicide contributed to this image, her face was covered by her dress when she was pulled out of the water but Magritte discarded this interpretation as he insisted that hi spainting concealed nothing, the mystery was unknown. He said, “We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.” The viewer may interpret the shrouded faces as a universality of love, as it could be any face underneath but one can also assess it as a barrier to love or a clandestine love affair, the shroud subverts the loving nature and becomes a spectre of alienation, suffocation and death.

 





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