The Belgian Surrealist artist Rene Magritte (1898 1967) is well
known for his thought-provoking and witty images that challenge the
observer s preconditioned perceptions of reality. Magritte and
Literature examines some of the artist's major paintings whose
titles were influenced by and related to works of literature.
Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, Goethe's Elective Affinities, and
Poe's The Domain of Arnheim are representative examples of
Magritte's interarts dialogue with literary figures.
Despite these convergences, the titles subvert the images in his
paintings. It is the two images together that express the
aesthetics of Surrealism for example, the juxtaposition of
unrelated objects whose purpose is to spark recognition. Magritte's
challenge to representation compares with metafiction's challenge
to classic realism, Les Chants de Maldoror, for example, and the
intersecting space between art and writing, sometimes referred to
as the iconotext, manifests itself whenever Magritte borrows a
literary title for a painting. His strategy is to paint visible
thought, and this reverse ekphrasis, the opposite of a rhetorical
description, undermines the written text. When he succeeds, the
effect is poetry."
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