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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
9:14 PM

René Magritte

(November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967)
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René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist.He was one of the founders of Belgian surrealism in 1926 and became well known for a number of witty and amusing images with used out of place and out of proportion imagery to provoke thoughts.He began drawing lessons in 1910. His mother committed suicide in 1912 by drowning herself in the River Sambre. Magritte was present when her body was retrieved from the water. The image of his mother floating, her dress obscuring her face, may have influenced a 1927-1928 series of paintings of people with cloth obscuring their faces.

L'Invention de la vie. 1928. Oil on canvas.
Image courtesy of http://www.abcgallery.com/M/magritte/magritte6.html

Magritte's work rose considerably in the 1960s, and his imagery has influenced Pop, Minimalist, and Conceptual art of the world. His imagery became familiar to a wider public through reproduction on rock album covers, music videos and numerous films like'The Exorcist' which was inspired by one of his paintings.

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His Philosophy:

His work frequently displays a juxtaposition of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. He points out that no matter how closely, through realism-art, we come to depicting an item accurately, we never do catch the item itself.

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He Quotes:

"My painting is 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."

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”

“Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.”

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His Style:

René Magritte's style of painting resulted in his being called a "Father of American Pop Art" in 1961. But he was not pleased by this association and felt that Pop Art was a joke and used the term sugar-coated Dadaism to describe it.

His art shows a more representational style of surrealism compared to the "automatic" style seen in works by other artists. In addition to fantastic elements, his work is often witty and amusing. His style was also very realistic, with very sharp and crisp lines
and 'not blurred'. He would sometimes take two real objects which don't belong together, and add them to his paintings. Likewise, he took mundane objects, pulled them through his imagination and forced them out the other side in such unreal combinations and relationships that they could cause the viewer to question the very nature of reality. His works were efforts to overthrow the sense of the familiar.

The Acrobat's Exercises. 1928. Oil on canvas.
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Time Transfixed, 1938. Oil on canvas
Image courtesy of http://www.lacma.org/art/MagritteIndex.aspx

La Thérapeute, 1941. Gouache sur papier.
Image courtesy of http://www.abcgallery.com/M/magritte/magritte20.html

Personal Values, 1952. Oil on canvas
Image courtesy of http://www.lacma.org/art/MagritteIndex.aspx

Golconda, 1953. Oil On Canvas
Image courtesy of http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/71/Golconde.jpg

Mysteries Of The Horizon, 1955, Oil On Canvas
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The Son Of Man, 1964. Oil On Canvas
Image courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Magritte_TheSonOfMan.jpg

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His Vision:

Allows one to conjure up a state of being which has become rare and precious, which makes it possible to observe in silence.

Reading and reflection call for silence, listening no less. Silence can be used for waiting for an illumined vision of things.

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His Influences:

In his early career, he was influenced by the Cubists and the Futurists. And soon, he was a member of the second branch of surrealist art which created more concrete and dream-like images rather than 'automatic' that infuses more on calligraphy as a way of expressing the subconscious freely.

Magritte was a master of this art and were heavily influenced by Giorgio de Chirico, an Italian painter whose works were such an enormous factor in the development of Surrealism

Another major influence on Magritte's work was a cinematic one. A five-part serial, 'Fantomas', by the French movie-maker Louis Feuillade was the main cinematic influence on Magritte . This series of films dealt with a character named Fantomas who captured the imagination of Magritte as well as many other surrealists

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Fame:

He was one of the greats of the Surrealist movement and known as the Master Of Surrealism of the time.

But, the world needed over a quarter of a century to discover that his work has both philosophical and poetic content which corresponds to certain social and intellectual trends, particularly in the second half of the twentieth century.

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Friday, August 31, 2007
3:11 PM

Bibliography:

René Magritte (00:54, September 7th,2007) In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 20:30, September 7th, 2007 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte

Rene Magritte (11:03, July 24th, 2007) Five Dock. Retrieved on 22:01, September 7th, 2007 from http://ahps.fivedock.syd.catholic.edu.au/html/magritte.html

Magritte(10:02, September 3rd, 2007) Expo Shop. Retrieved on 22:20, September 7th, 2007 from http://www.magritte.com/2.cfm

Art Exhibitions (03:00, August 24th, 2007) Los Angelas County Museum of Art. Retrieved on 22:40, September 7th, 2007 from http://www.lacma.org/art/MagritteIndex.aspx

Rene Magritte (17:08, September 4th, 2007) The Artchive. Retrieved on 23:00, September 7th, 2007 from http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/magritte.html

René Magritte(14:13, September 2nd, 2007) Olga Gallery. Retrieved on 23:29, September 7th, 2007 from http://www.abcgallery.com/M/magritte/magritte.html

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Thursday, August 30, 2007
3:48 AM

Hi! This is my first time using blogger. Anyway, Ive chosen René Magritte as the designer. He's a surrealist and famous in the 60's. I love his works as it questions me and plays around with ones thoughts. This blog is mainly for DesTi 1 Final Assignment and I do appreciate if you guys could leave comments so I can improve on my works.

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-Aidah

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ABOUT MYSELF

Nur Zubaidah Yusuff (AIDAH)
0607132H
TDS Junior Moving Images
Aspiring Film Maker cum Graphic DESIGNER
DESTi, T02

I believe that PASSION is the word.
Currently working as a freelance card designer in one of the companies in Singapore. I do up cards for different occasions and have been doing it for 2 years. I love to draw, photoshop-ing and do photography, apart from film-making, which I'm going to major in it now. Drawing and doodling is a way for me to fill me in during boredom. My dream is to become a graphic designer who majors in video, photography and graphics. Apart from that, I've majored the basics in tailoring. My mom's a tailor and she taught me the pros and cons of sewing. I've sawn my very own 'Baju Kurung', a malay traditional clothes, with her guidance. Born on 8th August 1989, and the 2nd of the three siblings, she recently turned eighteenth and have a huge passion in fashion and graphic designing. Currently pursuing Diploma in Moving Images and majoring in video, she has never give up her dreams to be a Graphic Designer.

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MY STYLE

My style is basically playing with lines and shapes. Most of my artworks are in black and white and cutouts. I love exploring Adobe Photoshop and whenever ideas struck, I'll straight away draw it up and transfer it to my laptop. I do love photography but I feel that my graphics are better than pictures. As you scroll down, you'll see different kinds of artworks that make use of black markers.

Black And White Images:

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Cut Outs:

These are the cutout forms edited from the drawings i've done. I play around with different thickness of lines into the scanned drawings and edit it till it looks 'cut-outs'.

I have different other styles but the aboves are the best.

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MY DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

I believe that everyone has their own style and techniques in design. Some are better in photography but as for me, I'm into graphics. I do take photos during my free time but graphics is what I do best.
I believe that designs can also be superb in many ways. It does not need to be fanciful but the rationale that counts.

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MY INFLUENCES

My mom is the person who greatly influenced me in my designs. I look up to her as my mentor. She's a tailor cum "fashion designer" for malay traditional clothings.
Her doodles and drawings somehow started me to like drawing since young.

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Why I choose HIM?

The reason is simple. Just take a look at his paintings and I'm sure something in you will question why he did this and that. I love his works as he brought surrealism to a style which was uniquely his own. I love the weird painted objects which he placed them in unreal relation to one another by using only familiar objects but bringing them together in such unreal ways. He is able to make the viewers think and reflect and he makes me question the nature of accepted reality. His ability to make paintings different from others has influence me to bring design into something 'out of the box'.
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Difference between his & my STYLE.

As said in the previous section where i explained about my style,
I've stated that my style is more on BLACK & WHITE and cut outs. I'm more into graphics where things are real and my designs are more of a Pop Art than Surrealism. My designs are straight forward and i infuse the elements of cartoons and playing a lot with lines and textures.

Whereas Magritte's style is Surrealism. He developed pictorial style, which includes figures of the ordinary world in an extraordinary order. He plays with ones mind and the paintings he drew were unreal and unusual.
He used impact colours, with sharp and crisp lines which enhanced the overall painting. His paintings were mostly infusions of things that does not belong together and merged as one.
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Rationale

I am inspired by Magritte 1964's 'The Son Of Man' painting in which a man's face is obscured by an apple. I was amazed by this painting when it was featured in the famous 1999's 'The Thomas Crown Affair' film that was recently telecast in Channel 5. By looking at the painting, it evokes some emotions in me and therefore inspires me to create the blog's skin.

To achieve the surrealism style which is so different from my style, i thought of using my 'cut out' style and infuse the elements of weirdness. I play a lot with lines. I used strips of gray and white as to give a hallucination feel. I combined a picture of a girl, hang on strings with obscuration of different apples to show that the image is floating on air. I infuse Magritte's style of placing a green apple in the man's face into my design. The face of the girl will keep changing with various pictures of 'APPLES'. From an apple to iPod and finally with lots of apples in a bowl.

I smudge the face to give an illusion look. I placed objects on the face, which was influenced by 'The Son Of Man's painting.

From apple to Apple's iPod.

Why 'The Papercut Machine' ?

Well, the main focus for my blogskin is mainly on the girl, whose face is obscured by various forms of apples hanging in the hallucinating background. As the girl is seen as being 'paste' on the background and with random apples appearing on the face, it forms a machine whereby everything moves and keep changing at the same time.

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