The Philosophy Behind Rene Magritte's Art? I Behind the Masterpiece

René Magritte was a Belgian artist who was best known for his work with Surrealism and his thought-provoking images. The Son of Man is thought to be his most famous piece depicting the hidden face of a bowler-hatted subject obscured by a floating green apple. Some believe "The Son of Man" refers to Jesus, others believe it refers to the everyman; a striking and significant subject matter.
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[@weeverob]

The man with the apple is every man, every person who views the painting, if they wish to enter the painting..

[@jonwrighte8808]

This video is so informative. I've always had a hard time understanding art. Thank you

[@svennorthwest6233]

Great video!!! Thank you for the insights :-)

[@HugoBastennn]

Great video, thanks for this 🙌🏽

[@tuncerguel]

Thank you for great clear information ✅

[@barbararey5993]

my god this is so good, thanks for your work. doing a creative asignment for design, inspired on Meditation by Magritte and this helped a lot!

[@BehindtheMasterpiece]

I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you 🙏

[@cinemabandits]

Very nice 👍

[@VeryLaw]

4:12 This was really interesting... the first time I saw this painting, I didn't really understand all the little details. Thanks for this!

[@BehindtheMasterpiece]

I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🙌🙏

[@russhamer]

Wonderful video! Thank you. I don't know your name, so I will write: "Dear Magritte-o-phile, ......". I have been giving lectures about Magritte's art for the last 5 years and would love to talk with you about some of my ideas. I was haapy to hear you mention that Magritte thought of himself as a philosopher because so many of his works dive deep into philosophical territory. He was not interested in the Freudian-Surreal-dreamlike approach of Dali: for Magritte the Ordinary had plenty enough Mystery in it! When he 1st saw de Chirico's "Song of Love" (a black-and -white reporduction in a magazine, I believe), it brought him to tears and he vowed that from then on all his paintings would be visual poems. And he relished in creating "poetic shock", as in "La Clairvoyance". (by the way, everyone says "he looks at an egg but paints a bird" (e.g. Ann Umland, curator at MOMA said that in the audio tour); it turns out he is not looking at the egg! I did the experiment! His gaze is too high, by about 22 degrees! But no matter--the work conveys the potentialities of objects, refers to time passage, the surreality of tranformation (little round white object becomes hige bird!), and of course his imagination as well as ours that he enlists in pondering this work. ). In "La Condition Humain (1933)" , he delves deeply into philosophical territory about the nature of representation, about paradoxical spaces (inside is outside; opaque is tranparent...etc). And in fact he understood human perception as representation in the brain, a concept quite harmonious with modern neuroscientific thinking about how perception is instantiated in the brain. My lecures are titled "Surreal Artist as Neuroscientist: What the Art of Rene Magritte Tells Us About The Brain (and vice versa)". I'd love to talk with you about his work and the brain -lessons it contains. These apply to all art, but Magritte's works offer super-evocative clear examples of how art can reveal secrets about how the brain proecsses scenes. Please contact me at russhamer2ATgmailDOTcom.

[@russhamer]

@@BehindtheMasterpiece Thanks for replying. Wold you care to chat sometime? Lots to tell...lots to ask...

[@Hypnopomp]

@@russhamer Sorry, dude, she's not interested. 😂

[@tbearbryant]

Magritte knew what all artists of our era have learned. If you want to make people think don’t write your ideas down… make those ideas visual. Otherwise, the masses will never see those ideas.

[@jamesro196]

You missed the face to the left in the clouds. It’s the ethereal representation of the face not seen behind the apple. Huge pi’s point

[@cinemabandits]

Interesting

[@seemavishwakarma2134]

Wonder of u

[@mahdi5796]

Good video. Voice quality needs improvement.

[@user-vy8dc1ef7n]

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?!