MAGRITTE MUSEUM
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This museum, entirely dedicated to Magritte, houses the most important collection of works by the surrealist: 200 paintings, drawings..
This museum, entirely devoted to Magritte, houses the most important collection of works by the surrealist: 200 paintings, gouaches, drawings and photographs, presented in a chronological sequence over 3 floors, evoking different periods in the painter's life. It also reveals lesser-known aspects of the artist's life, such as his closeness to the trade union movement through posters, his ambiguous relationship with advertising and his "cow" period, in which he did not hesitate to shake up artistic Paris in 1948 with some thirty very colorful canvases borrowing from the codes of Fauvism and Impressionism. Some masterpieces are obviously on the program, such as L'Empire des lumières (with that strange duality between a blue afternoon sky and a house plunged into night). We can't talk about René Magritte without mentioning Georgette, his muse and wife, who appears in portrait, silhouette or antique statue mode(La Magie noire, where a flesh Georgette blends into an azure sky decorated with a very... Magrittian cloud). A love that would last a lifetime. In fact, a large proportion of the museum's works come from a bequest from him. Of particular interest (and little-known) are some early works, when Magritte was experimenting with Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism ( L'Écuyère). They reveal a completely different artist still seeking his own path. Numerous sketches also shed light on the master's working methods. A must-see for fans of the sacred René!
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S'y rendre de préférence en semaine, le weekend, la foule rend la visite moins agréable