Rene Magritte

60 Years Of Light

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Alex Katz, Video, Kemper Museum, Lois Dodd, Rene Magritte, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Painting, Female Artists, Paul Cezanne, Slideexpand, Henri Matisse, Arts News

Lois Dodd is not interested in telling stories. Just as snapshots transport us back to forgotten feelings, physical states, and even temperatures, so ...

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The Body Becomes The Canvas

Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Video, Body Art, Art Inspired Tattoos, Albrecht Durer, Best Art Tattoos, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Slideexpand, Art Tattoos, Banksy, Arts News

Who wants a tattoo of a few Chinese characters when you can have one of the greatest works of all time emblazoned on your back? Although most of the a...

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Ethan Murrow's 'Narcissistic Excess' Is Playful And Strange

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Edward Murrow, Performance Piece, Charlie Chaplin, Venice Art, Obsolete Gallery, Rene Magritte, Surrealism, Los Angeles Art, Slidepollajax, Barnum and Bailey, Ethan Murrow, Video, Arts News

"All of my characters tend to end in failure," Ethan Murrow once admitted to The Seattle Times. The artist's large graphite drawings are rendered with...

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Domenico Gnoli's Rarely Seen Paintings Now On View

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Italian Renaissance, Domenico Gnoli, Luxembourg & Dayan, Slidewide, Surrealism, Italian Art, Mc Escher, Rene Magritte, Painting, New York Exhibition, Fresco, Video, Arts News

There is an undeniable magic to Italian Renaissance paintings, where fabric ripples with a supernatural grace, and hair cascades with both abandon and...

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Fifty Shades Of Grey Zones

Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Fifty Shades of Grey, Robert Minervini, Los Angeles Art Exhibitions, Video, Bruce Cohen, Still Life, Surrealism, Rene Magritte, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Bruce Cohen's still lifes combine an intensely heightened perception with nebulous subject matter. His painted objects are imbued with a sense of urge...

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Which Famous Surrealist Made Commercial Posters On The Side?

Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Video, Renee Magritte Posters, Art Deco, Advertisements, Retro Advertisements, Surrealism, Rene Magritte, Magritte, Slidepollajax, Swann Auction Galleries, Arts News

We don't know about you, but when we think of Rene Magritte we imagine bowler hats, mysterious clouds and cryptic green apples. We certainly do not th...

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A Spotify Playlist For Art Stars

Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Art Brut, Art, Art Playlist, Art Stars, Rene Magritte, Spotify Playlists, Songs About Art, Painting, Picasso, Spotify, Arts News

We had a very hard time making this playlist, dear readers, because there are innumerable songs about art in the world that merit your attention. Wher...

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Dali's Big Sale At Sotheby's

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Printemps Necrophilique, Art Auction, Video, Art Value, Salvador Dali Auction, Art and Money, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Surrealism, Sotheby's, Max Ernst, Arts News

Salvador Dali's surrealist dreamscapes inspired the imaginations of millions; now it looks like the artist's wildest dreams are about to become a real...

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DVF Gets Surreal

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Dvf, Surrealism Diane Von Furstenberg, Advertising, Fashion and Art, Rene Magritte, Faceless Campaign, Surrealism, John Baldessari, Diane Von Furstenberg, Diane Von Furstenberg Faceless, Arts News

Good advertising instills a desire in the viewer to become a part of the scene, and good ads frequently invoke the masters of art in order to get thei...

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Alice in Wonderland Revisited

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Tate Liverpool - UK, Alice in Wonderland, Arts Exhibition, Lewis Carroll, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Arts News

A journey through 150 years of one of the most imaginative sources of inspiration ever: Alice in Wonderland.

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PHOTOS: This Is Not René Magritte's Birthday

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Magritte Birthday, Surrealism, Rene Magritte, This Is Not a Pipe, Surrealist, Magritte, Art History, Pop Art, Arts News

René Magritte was born in Belgium 113 years ago today. Since then, he has pleased our eyes and tickled our minds with his poetic subversions of reali...

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Rauschenberg's Treasures

Alexander Adler | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, James Rosenquist, Rene Magritte, Art, Robert Rauschenberg, Gagosian Gallery, Arts News

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Video)

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Art, Fear No Art Chicago, Paintings, Fear No Art, Michael Darling, Sculpture, Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mca, Rene Magritte, Chicago Artist Month, Robert Rauschenberg, Nick Cave, Chicago News

While we walk the corridors of the museum and throughout the superb exhibit Pandora's Box, Mr. Darling talks about the importance of the museum creating a safe space to ask questions, and ways we can all relate to art.

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WATCH: 500 Years Of Artists Paint Women

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Edouard Manet, Kazimir Malevich, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Philip Scott Johnson, Rene Magritte, Gustav Klimt, Anders Zorn, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Morphing, Animation, Henri Matisse, Arts News

New to us at HuffPost Arts, Philip Scott Johnson's "500 Years Of Female Portraits In Western Art" is intriguing in its ability to trace how representa...

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Literary Twitter: @thesulk

Aaron Belz | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Family Guy, Woody Allen, Jokes, Twitter, Parody, Mel Brooks, Thesulk, Rene Magritte, Tweets, Alec Sulkin, Books News

Twitter serves Family Guy writer/producer Alec Sulkin the way The New Yorker once served S. J. Perelman: as a venue in which to showcase his wares and develop celebrity caché outside of Hollywood proper. In front of the scenes.

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A City Awash in Art, Beer and Chocolate

Edward Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Magritte, Beer, Old Master Paintings, Museum, Brussels, Belgium, Npr, Architecture, Gilbert & George, Edward Goldman, Art Nouveau, Artists, Lucas Cranach, Chocolate, Art, Rene Magritte, Victor Horta, James Ensor, Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Art Talk, Tefaf, Kcw, Bozar, Maastricht, Brafa, Arts News

I just returned from a short trip to Belgium, my first time there, and let me tell you, it couldn't be more adventurous, intoxicating and sweet. And I mean it literally.

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WATCH: HUFFPOST ARTS EXCLUSIVE: Revealing The Upcoming Series 'Art Through Time: A Global View'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tv Series, Hieroglyphics, Culture History, Art History, World Art, Slidepollajax, Art Through Time: A Global View, Rene Magritte, Wnet, Thirteenwnet, Thirteen/WNET, Arts News

This is the first of three exclusive HuffPost Arts video slideshows previewing segments from a new interactive visual arts series called Art Through T...

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PHOTOS: FOUND ART: Where's Waldo? Dan Wilbur Finds Waldo In Classic Paintings

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Andrew Wyeth, Where's Waldo, Waldo, Anya Garrett, Salvador Dali, Slidepollajax, Dan Wilbur, Slideshow, Rene Magritte, Vintage Waldo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arts News

Dan Wilbur and Anya Garrett have created, er "found," Waldo in a number of classic paintings. As their story goes, Waldo was "desperate" for some sel...

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Chicago's Big Shoulders Get an Eyeball to Match

Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Art, Public Art, Public Sculpture, Marcel Duchamp, Chicago Loop Alliance, Rene Magritte, Millenium Park, Tony Tasset, State Street, Pritzker Park, Chicago News

On July 7, when Chicago-based artist Tony Tasset unveils his two public commissions on State Street for the Chicago Loop Alliance, viewers will be anything but neutral.

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Magritte Painting Stolen At Gunpoint

The Guardian | Angelique Chrisafis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brussels Museum Painting Stolen, International Art Theft, Art Theft, Magritte Painting, Brussels, Brussels Museum, Rene Magritte, Surrealist Art, Magritte Painting Theft, World News

A painting by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte was stolen from a Brussels museum today in a daring daylight raid by two armed men who rang...

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