In this way the painter seems to wish to reveal that what we saw through the window was not a real outside landscape, but rather an image painted on the glass, albeit identical to the landscape outside. The shards of glass on the floor are painted with fragments of a landscape indentical to the one outside.
In this work Magritte depicts a landscape framed by a broken window caused by some impact from outside. That year Alfred Barr included him in the exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism (The Museum of Modern Art, New York), as a representative, along with Dalí and Tanguy, of Photographic Surrealism. The Key of the Fields (La clef des champs) was painted in 1936 when Magritte's work was already known on the international art scene. Using simple images which are comprehensible in themselves and are painted in a realistic manner, he conveyed complex meanings by which spectator uncovers the most mysterious side of the everyday world. Through the visual enigmas which he painted Magritte succeeded in creating a body of work of great originality. Although he was one of the major exponents of Surrealism, the Belgian artist deliberately avoided the world of the unconscious. "Anyone who looks for symbolic meanings in my paintings will not grasp the poetry and the mystery inherent in the image." For Magritte painting contained the mystery of poetry, the poetry of the incongruous. Key to the Fields (La clef des champs) - 1936 The next window painting, one that uses the "broken glass" illusion, we'll examine is The Key to the Fields (1933): He uses a curtain one of his iconic props from the stage and turns the foreground into geometric shapes with a bird being released. Here's the first window painting by Magritte, done in 1925, from Magritte's Cubo-Futurist period that ended around 1926.Ĭlearly the view outside is the only glimpse of reality that Magritte offers. Check out the article on the symbolism of window in art at the end of this blog.
Man in the window collage artwork by lewis series#
This blog is the second in the series featuring window paintings by Rene Magritte.
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