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| Rene Magritte The Rape 1945 Centre Pompidou Paris, Frankreich |
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Rights (Photo / Work):
Musée national d'art moderne © Bildrecht, Wien, 2013 |
Similar to the Baubo-Figurines created in Antiquity, in this painting is represented a nude headless torso with the face in the body. The Surrealism[1] gives something inexpected to the familiar, the irrealistic dream-like reveals something suppressed from the unconscious. The woman is depicted in an objectified way, she is reduced to the essential, in her face she shows her body that is not revealed to everyone. Magritte is skillful in distinguishing the invisible from the not-visible[2] and plays with the viewers' habits of perception. The depicted pubic triangle reminds of large-scale greek sculptures and the inherent beginning of the denial of the female sex.
Biography: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Magritte (Translation: K. Seifter)
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