Surrealistic Artists Research

Rene Magritte was born in 1898 in Lessines, Belgium to a wealthy manufacturer father. Rene decided to study at the Academie des Beaux-Art after his mother committed suicide in 1912. He Married Georgette in 1922. He was the most celebrated Belgian artist in the twentieth century, he had achieved great popular acclaim for his idiosyncratic approach to surrealism.  He died in 1967.

 

Man Ray was born in 1890 in Philadelphia, PA. In 1980 he was offed a scholarship to study architecture, he turned it down to focus on a career as an artist. In 1915, Ray held his first solo art show at the Daniel Gallery which featured many paintings and drawings. In 1918 he had produced some incredible work, photographs of art that he had created himself. Due to his failed marriage, lack of money and the weak enthusiasm for Dada art in the States, Ray moved to France where he spent the next 18 years of his life.   

 



 

Artist’s Name: Rene Magritte

Title: Golconda

Date: 1953

Description: It’s a lot of men in black trench coats and hats in different angles raining down on a building.

Analysis: this piece isn’t very symmetrical because the building wouldn’t quite match up.

Interpretation: I find the meaning of this piece to be that men rule the world. It also reminds me of the song it’s a raining men.

Judgment: I think that this is a very good piece. Magritte did a very good job and the further the men get the more they look like rain.

 

 



 

 

 

Artist’s Name: Man Ray

Title: Woman with long hair

Date: 1929

Description: It’s a woman with long hair, it looks like she is bending back on something but she looks like kind of dead and it’s like a very dreary feel.  

Analysis: This piece is very symmetrical vertically, but it’s not at all horizontally.

Interpretation: I think the purpose of this picture is to show death.

Judgment: I think that this picture is very well done, I feel like he went for a more dreary look and he did exactly that.