Rene Magritte

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René Magritte (1898-1967)

La boîte de Pandore (Pandora's Box), 1951

Huile sur toile - 45 x 45 cm

Magritte said of this composition that "the presence of the "the presence of the rose next to the stroller signifies that wherever man's destiny leads him, he is always protected by an element of beauty."

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Françoise Dhulesia

I will not focus on the symbolism of the flower as a sign of hope on the empty bridge and desolated place, but rather on the presence of the man, an archetype; and seeing Magritte's characters most often depicted from the back and therefore with the face not perceptible, I feel Magritte is constantly masked in his paintings. He is like a masked actor, an actor of some Kafkaesque characters reduced to their initials (Kafka's K) or entangled in some kind of amnesiac memory.

A strange feeling that pervades his work.

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Sushama Karnik

Françoise Dhulesia A brilliant comment. Makes me think.