WTF HELP RE: SURREALIST PAINTINGS

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who is the applehead dude painted by? and what is the painting called? FUCK!

― Will M. (Will M.), Saturday, 23 July 2005 08:26 (twenty years ago)

which painting

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 23 July 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

dude with an apple for a head! there may or may not be fish raining from the sky

― Will M. (Will M.), Saturday, 23 July 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.artnet.com/magazine/news/walrobinson/Images/walrobinson5-1-4.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 23 July 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

You mean Matisse?

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 23 July 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Uhh.. MAGRITTE I mean, bloody hell.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 23 July 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's by René Magritte, and apparently it's called "Le fils de l'homme" ("The Sons of Man"?).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 23 July 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

looks like a hipgnosis designed pink floyd record cover.

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Saturday, 23 July 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

magritte sucks,

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 23 July 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Nooo, Magritte is classic!

(lock thread now pls)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 23 July 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

he's neither sucky nor classic.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 July 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

he's belgian

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 23 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

i've changer my mind - i'm not a bit fan but he is classic. also begian.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 23 July 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.artivisio.net/bilder/images/B_th/arcimboldo_portrait_eines_mannes_70.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Saturday, 23 July 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Chris Lanier on Magritte

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 23 July 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Surrealism is the godparent to every piece of trashy cover art for sci-fi and fantasy potboilers.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

& meatloaf album art.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

http://web.libertysurf.co.uk/lee.gregory/bat2_cd.jpg

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Magritte's train from the fireplace one ( La Durée poignardée) is pretty cool. My favorite surrealist painting is Ernst's L'ange du Foyer:
http://www.abcgallery.com/E/ernst/ernst24.html

That's not a great image of the painting- I have a nice copy of it in a coffee table book on surrealism that I got for $4 from a barnes & noble clearance table. In that reproduction, the movement in the painting that he generated out of the folds of the crazy bird thingie's skin is very well done. The copy in the link above is missing a lot of that detail.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

i like merret oppenhims cuntlapping masterpeice

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

magritte is great if youre in college and trying to decorate the common room

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

dude

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 23 July 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

that's what he painted it for, too

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

side note: surrealism without humor is useless

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

http://debri.ru/temp/n/050714-131700.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

how is magritte not humourous t0dd?

― ?ÎÓDDDJHKHVBNM (eman), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

i wasnt saying that, i was just making a general side-note. sorry if i was being vague

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

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― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 23 July 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

surrealism without horror is useless
surrealism without grace is useless

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 23 July 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

The key was last night I met someone dressed just like that, with the hat and all (costume party), and his head was shaped like an apple-- he was angry when I made the comparison, but I couldn't name a name. And that bugged me. Now I have the name and I may even print off the picture to shove in his apple face.

― Will M. (Will M.), Sunday, 24 July 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

Thank you all for the help on this matter, btw. Even "Eff Ell Tofe."

― Will M. (Will M.), Sunday, 24 July 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

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