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With Dali, Rene Magritte is the most popular and well known Surrealist. Known for his cool, philosophical detachment in his paintings of everyday objects undergoing startling transformations and his ironic juxtaposition of image and text, Pleasure is one of Magritte’s more macabre and visceral paintings.
A young woman is devouring a bird beneath a tree where several other birds are perching. The white collar and ruff of her dress are stained with blood. Her eyes have the rapt, vacant expression of those in a ecstatic trance. Is this a despoiled Eden with Eve celebrating her loss of innocence by satisfying her deepest and darkest carnal desires?
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The whole cannibalism thing is weird. OK, i realize she is not a cannibal here, but it reminds you a bit of it, with the dripping blood and the fact it’s raw. I was just reading a book written by a psychologist from New York in the 1930s where he describes various criminals as well as sexual criminals and he describes the nexus of sexual crime as cannibalism (since one of them was eating the children he molested). Horrible and we don’t usually think of those kinds of things happening so much before Bundy although there were the Moors murders which I guess was a bit earlier.
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Well for once Magritte lets his guard down and the picture is shocking
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More shocking than the Assassin? Well, yes, we definitely need a little more red meat from Magritte and less slick advertisement art.
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My point exactly…I was going to go on a big deal about how magritte and dali methods were used by the budding advertising industry but decided against it
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I thought Magritte came from that industry though.
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He did…but Surrealism was meant to subvert advertising, capitalism etc but instead its methods were used for the rising consumer culture
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I never got that it would subvert advertising. It really has the advertising look. I guess Dali influenced ads but Magritte already had that ad style from his former career…
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Yes you’re right they were never against advertising per se just the system but they ended up expanding the domain of the system…that’s what you get from reading too many Situtionists texts
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What a very interesting post I found here…
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Thank you… one of my oldest posts. I like Magritte.
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The eyes of the devourer seem rather empty to me. She doesn’t seem to be enjoying her meal. Nightmarish.
Thank you Mr Cake
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Well I don’t want to give anyone nightmares but I do take a morbid delight in morbid art.
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Reblogged this on lampmagician.
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Thank you, this is an old one indeed.
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But I like them much 😉👍👍
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Thank you!
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not for that, I thank you my friend 🙂
PS; I already mentioned that I didn’t get your post, though, I managed it a correction. have you changed something in your side?
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Not purposely, some others mentioned that as well. Hmmm
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anyway, I’ve got you 😉👍
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Thank you👍
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