Rene Magritte Empire Of Light Moma

The empire of light ii description this poster features a reproduction of renã magritte s work the empire of light ii 1950 from moma s collection and featured in the 2013 retrospective magritte.

Rene magritte empire of light moma.

The empire of light french. Clouds pipes bowler hats and green apples. The empire of light is a series of paintings by rene magritte created between 1953 and 1954. L empire des lumières is a series of paintings rené magritte covered more than a dozen times from 1947 to 1965.

These remain some of the most immediately recognizable icons of rené magritte the belgian painter and well known surrealist. The mystery of the ordinary. In this case the artist was inspired by the works of john atkinson grimshaw an english painter from the victorian era who had delighted. They depict the paradoxical image of a nighttime street lit only by a single street light beneath a daytime sky.

While the top half depicts daytime sky. He produced a body of work that rendered such commonplace things strange slotting them into unfamiliar or uncanny scenes or deliberately mislabeling them in order to make the most everyday objects. René magritte dec 15 1965 feb 27 1966 surrealist illusion from the museum collection feb 11 apr 18 1971 1 other work identified painting and sculpture changes 2013 jan 1 dec 31 2013 3 other works identified. It exemplifies the sort of simple paradox that is seen in some of the most successful works of the artist.

In the bottom half of the picture is a nighttime street lit by a single street light.