Magritte The Lovers 2 Essay

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The lovers under the white veil
The lovers II, 1928 by René Magritte

Winnie yip xin wei
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Justin Loke
DFA 2202 IV3
April 9, 2015

The lovers II, 1928 by René Magritte In this essay I will be examining René Magritte painting, The lovers II, 1928. He is born in 1898, in Lessines a province of Hainaut, Belgium. He is a surrealist artist; he is influence by artists and writer such as, Andre Breton, Sigmund Freud. His paintings are known for challenging the mind of the observers’ preconditioned ideas of reality, using the concept of thought provoking images. The paintings and images René Magritte does are able to evoke one’s emotion without unrevealing the mysteries of his work. René Magritte’s work often …show more content…

There’s is a sheet of white fabric, obstructing the intimate embrace between the man and woman, there is no way one could identify who they are as they are completely covered by the opaque white veil. The white cloth is painted in a manner whereby it was tightly covering their heads making them as though they are stifled. They are located at a back wall of corner of room, which is dimly lit there is only limited source of light illuminating at the bottom, the sidewall and ceiling are shown in the painting, as well. The back wall is painted in a dark bluish-grey that gradient to a shade lighter. The side of the wall is colored in brick red with a shadow of a very faint silhouette of the man that was portrayed in the painting. The ceiling is white in color, which has a decorative trim molding that runs along the boarder of red wall but does not continue on the bluish-grey wall. The male figure is wearing a black suit and tie with a formal white shirt while the woman is dressed in red, sleeveless dress with a white trimming exposing her almond color skin …show more content…

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