JACQUES MEURIS

The works of René Magritte (1898 – 1967) and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting. In the search for the "mystery" in which thi

The works of Rene Magritte (1898 - 1967) and the ideas that underlie them are a special case both in the history of modern art and in surrealist painting. In the search for the mystery in which things and organisms are enveloped, Magritte created pictures which, taking everyday reality as their starting point, were to follow a different logic from that to which we are accustomed. Magritte depicts the world of reality in such unsecretive superficiality that the beholder of his pictures is forced to reflect that the mystery of it is not evoked by some sentimental transfiguration, but rather by the logic of his thoughts and associations. Magritte thus invented an inimitable pictorial language which he uses to question our usual comprehension of pictures. In this book, Jacques Meuris traces Magritte's artistic development from its beginnings until the end of his life, and in doing so underlines the originality of this great Belgian Surrealist.

La obra de René Magritte (1898 - 1967) y el pensamiento en que se basa, constituyen un caso especial, tanto en la historia del arte moderno como en la de la pintura surrealista. A la búsqueda del misterio que rodea a cosas y seres vivos, Magritte logro cuadros en los que, partiendo de la realidad cotidiana, se sigue una logica distinta a la habitual. Con su forma de presentar el mundo de la realidad y lo imaginario, Magritte incita al observador a reflexionar que lo importante del misterio no es la transfiguracion sentimental, sino la logica de sus ideas y asociaciones. El pintor crea asi un inconfundible lenguaje pictorico, que cuestiona la comprension habitual de la imagen. Jacques Meuris sigue en este libro la evolucion artistica de Magritte, desde sus comienzos hasta el termino de su obra, subrayando la originalidad del gran surrealista belga.