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The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork. [1] Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. [2] The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man ...
Many of Magritte's works were used directly in that scene. In the 1999 movie The Thomas Crown Affair starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo and Denis Leary, the Magritte painting The Son of Man was prominently featured as part of the plot line. Gary Numan's 1979 album The Pleasure Principle was a reference to Magritte's painting of the same name.
Meaning of Night [14] 1927 Menil Collection (Houston. Tex.) Oil on canvas 139 x 105 cm The Murderous Sky (Le ciel meurtrier) [15] 1927 Musée National d’Art Moderne. Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris. France Oil on canvas 73 x 100 cm Female Thief [16] 1927 Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique Oil on canvas 100 x 73 cm Prince of Objects [17 ...
The Son of Man; T. The Telescope (Magritte) Time Transfixed; The Treachery of Images; V. ... File:The Meaning of Night by Rene Magritte.jpg; File:The Menaced Assassin ...
A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month. Christie’s auction ...
The Human Condition (La condition humaine) is the title of four paintings by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte.One was completed in 1933 and is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. [1] Another one was completed in 1935 and is part of the Simon Spierer Collection in Geneva, Switzerland. [2]
Magritte lived in a similar suburban environment, and dressed in a similar fashion. The bowler hat was a common feature of much of his work, and appears in paintings such as The Son of Man. Charly Herscovici, who was bequeathed copyright on the artist's works, commented on Golconda: Magritte was fascinated by the seductiveness of images.
In the indefinite form ("son of Adam", "son of man", "like a man") used in the Hebrew Bible, it is a form of address, or it contrasts humans with God and the angels, or contrasts foreign nations (like the Sasanian Empire and Babylon), which are often represented as animals in apocalyptic writings (bear, goat, or ram), with Israel which is ...