{"id":286,"date":"2009-01-29T07:28:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T07:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/rene-magritte-apples-pipes-bowler-hats\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T07:28:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T07:28:33","slug":"rene-magritte-apples-pipes-bowler-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/rene-magritte-apples-pipes-bowler-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"Rene Magritte &#8211; Apples, Pipes and Bowler Hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/sonofman1.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/site.overstockart.com\/images\/magritte.gif\" alt=\"Rene Magritte - The Son of Man oil painting\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/a>Just over 100 years ago, Rene Magritte was born in Belgium. By 1922 at the age of 28, he sold his first painting. Even though the Magritte family were personally acquainted with Salvidor Dali and his family in Spain; it would be another four years until Rene begins to experiment with surrealism.<\/p>\n<p>He contributes to the final issue of <em>&#8220;R\u00e9volution Surr\u00e9aliste&#8221;<\/em> by painting the first version of his famous work <em>&#8220;The treachery of Images&#8221;<\/em>. One of his most famous is a painting of a pipe which in fact, looks like an advertisement. Below are the words <em>&#8220;Ceci n&#8217;est pas une pipe&#8221;<\/em> (This is not a pipe).<\/p>\n<p>By 1943, just as WW2 was coming to a close, Magritte began exploring his <em>&#8220;Renoir&#8221;<\/em> or <em>&#8220;Solar&#8221;<\/em> style which he continues until 1947. This is the style we have come to know Magritte by. In all of Magritte\u2019s paintings, he forces the viewer to really look at what he is seeing. He takes everyday objects and turns the ordinary into the exra-ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>The image of a man in a bowler hat is one of his most recognizable and represents the common man. The first version, <em>\u201cThe Son of Man\u201d<\/em> was actually a self portrait, painted in 1964. It has remained a remarkably iconic image even to this day. When Rene was asked about the man\u2019s obscured face, he commented that <em>\u201cThere is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another of his images is the giant green apple, called <em>&#8220;The Listening Room&#8221;<\/em>, 1952. In this painting, we see a massive green apple out of context in a room with a glass window, wood flooring and white trim. 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