Tuesday, November 12, 2013

A Visit to the Magritte Exhibit at the MOMA plus some New Collages

Recently I went to the new Magritte exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art which is closing the second week of January.  Included are 80 works by the artist done between 1926 and 1938.  He was a master of the surreal and the show is outstanding.
 

"Displacement, transformation, metamorphosis, the “misnaming” of objects, and the representation of visions seen in half-waking states are among Magritte’s innovative image-making tactics during these essential years."

I recently completed several collages that were interpretations of some of Edward Hopper's paintings - a continuation of the theme of this semester.