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The Lovers (French: Les Amants (French pronunciation: [lez‿amɑ̃])) is a surrealist painting by René Magritte, made in Paris in 1928. It's the first in a series of four variations, and in the painting two people can be seen kissing passionately with their faces covered in a white cloth hiding their identities.
Magritte's work frequently displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. The use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in his painting, [31] The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images), which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store ...
The Lovers, an 1888 painting by Émile Friant; The Lovers (Master of the Housebook), c.1480 double portrait painting by the Master of the Housebook; The Lovers (Giulio Romano), a 1525 painting by Giulio Romano; The Lovers, a c. 1510 painting attributed to Titian; The Lovers, two paintings by René Magritte
The Lovers [41] 1928 The Museum of Modern Art; Gift of Richard S. Zeisler Oil on canvas 54 x 73.4 cm Literal Meaning II [42] 1929 Menil Collection (Houston. Tex.) Oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm Literal Meaning IV [43] 1929 Oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm Literal Meaning VI [44] 1929 Oil on canvas 54 x 73 cm The Treason of Images (This is not a Pipe) [45] 1929
The Empire of Light II (1950), oil on canvas, 79 x 99 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Although Magritte had already completed a few versions by 1953, a retrospective at the 1954 Venice Biennale included a 1954 version (now in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection) that attracted several collectors with expectations of buying the painting.
a witty tribute to Magritte's work and a haunting visual interpretation of Simon's music and lyrics. A photograph of the Magrittes serves as the point of departure for both the song and images, as Logue employs video effects to technologically echo and transform the eerie resonances of the surreal imagery of Magritte's paintings. [12]
“I’ve always liked that word, but I’ve never used it in, like, everyday life when people are like, ‘That’s my lover over there,’ or calling each other a lover.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Lovers (Magritte) M. The Meaning of Night (painting) ... File:The Meaning of Night by Rene Magritte.jpg ...