Sunday, December 30, 2012

The Man in the Bowler Hat (1964)

The Man in the Bowler Hat (1964)
L’Homme au Chapeau Melon

Artist: Rene Magritte
Completion Date: 1964
Place of Creation: Belgium
Style: Surrealism
Technique: oil
Material: canvas


Rene Magritte, two months before his death, wrote Sarane Alexandrian a splendid letter in which he said: "I conceive of the art of painting as the science of juxtaposing colours in such a way that their actual appearance disappears and lets a poetic image emerge. . . . There are no "subjects", no "themes" in my painting. It is a matter of imagining images whose poetry restores to what is known that which is absolutely unknown and unknowable."

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