surreelust:La Memoire by Rene Magritte (1948)Every Magritte contains within it a reference to the en
surreelust:La Memoire by Rene Magritte (1948)Every Magritte contains within it a reference to the entirety of his symbolic universe (here the ball, the clouds, the Grecian statuehead) but which introduces a new differentiation into each symbol with each repetition, that is, a shift in the interpretation (penetration?) of each painting within Magritte’s ouevre, an ultimate instability which functions here as its only stability (therein lies the key to the popularity of Magritte in our fashionably relativist times, particularly on Tumblr, the expression of the spirit of this age par excellence. That is difference as parody of itself, as ‘plurality’, the leveling of this dangerous and vicious heresy in line with the demands of consumption. What would a 'liberated’ Magritte posses that we, pathetic children of parliamentary democracy and liberalism, are blind to? What awful question marks would this leave in our eyes?) -- source link
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