The art of Rene Magritte and other surrealists?

[!! Anorak]

Magritte was one of the artists I studied for A Level (SAT II, Fat Yanks) and I was always drawn to the darker, stranger side of his work.

Although technically this isn't his most aesthetically pleasing work, there's a certain "innocence lost" quality to his piece "Girl Eating A Bird":



Other odd themes include bondage and the obscuring of faces, of course.

I sometimes enjoy the way surrealists have an eerie, distancing quality to their work, even in pop art pieces. As an example, I've always found Bob Cato's cover to Moby Grape's "Wow" to be oddly unnerving:

[boxingfan91]

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[MDPopescu]

The Belgians (especially those of Picardy) have a special sense of humour... In fact, all those Belgians think they are surrealists...

[!! Anorak]

Stop with these ****ty ass threads

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[rorymac]

Magritte was one of the artists I studied for A Level (SAT II, Fat Yanks) and I was always drawn to the darker, stranger side of his work.

Although technically this isn't his most aesthetically pleasing work, there's a certain "innocence lost" quality to his piece "Girl Eating A Bird":



Other odd themes include bondage and the obscuring of faces, of course.

I sometimes enjoy the way surrealists have an eerie, distancing quality to their work, even in pop art pieces. As an example, I've always found Bob Cato's cover to Moby Grape's "Wow" to be oddly unnerving:

I'd never seen that side of his work, it's great

On the more aesthetic side

[BM dnobagaV]

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[!! Anorak]

Re: Stop with these ****ty ass threads (columns, green c^nt)

fuck off.

[!! Anorak]

I'd never seen that side of his work, it's great

On the more aesthetic side

Even in that there's something vaguely sinister, isn't there?

[Weltschmerz]

Spiel der Wellen, Arnold Böcklin (1883)

[The Noose]

I'd never seen that side of his work, it's great

On the more aesthetic side

I believe that painting inspired the scene in the Exorcist when Father Merrin arrives outside the house. Which became the front cover.



And the hell panel from 'the garden of earthly delights' by Hieronymus Bosch inspired the voice of the demon.