Sunday 11 May 2014

"The lovers" - René Magritte

"The lovers"
René Magritte


René Magritte was born in 1898 in Belgium and he is one of the representatives of surrealism. His pictures are full of magical realism and as recipient can just suppose what René Magritte wanted to say us when he was painting.
I have chosen the picture titled "The lovers" becouse I consider that picture as really thought-provocking. 

In the foreground we see the woman and the man kissing eachother. Which is suprising they are wearing shawls ( so we can not be sure that we see woman and the man not for example two women). This fact can have various meanings. One of them (in my opinion the best one) is that love or desire is universal and it is not important whoose face we will see in the picture. The second option is that the lovers hide some feelings, facts from they life or love, as a feeling, is sightless and we don't see or we don't want to see one's faults.

The light is coming from left-side of the picture and it is catching on two heads in shawls. In the picture we can see one more light's effect: is the use of repleted colours as red and blue. Red can represent desire and love and blue can represent silence, water or life. 

It is quite interesting how the man is dressing. He is wearing black jacket, black tie and white shirt. In many pictures of René Magritte men are wearing that outfit. Meybe in that fact  the author wants to put himself in the picture?

René Magritte painted the second picture, titled the same and with two lovers in shawls. What feeling can be reprsented here?

Sunday 4 May 2014

Camino de Santiago part II

Next day we started our walk from San Sebastian. I remember that during the night was a big storm and it was raining all the time and that's way in the morning was quite cool. But even as we saw at 6am people were surfing already and running :) That day was really hard. We walked again 24 kilometers  and my feet started to rebell. Oh, I've mentioned what kind of shoes did I take with me? Ofc, just sneakers which wasn't good option for that kind of walking! My ankles moved all the time so when we were in the mountains I could twist it in any moment! The only thing was that everybody admired me that I was still alive :) Those mountains in the north of Spain are really tough. It's not only becouse you have to climb and go down but also becouse they are full of clay, streams etc. So remember to buy climbing boots becouse otherwise you will suffer like I did. 

Although I had those small problems it was one of the most active, interesting weeks in my live becouse I really have to fight with myself. We've met really nice people like one family in Guernica which gave us a place to sleep (we didn't want to pay 25euro for albergue so we just wanted to ask them if we can put a tent near to their house so they invite us to their house, gave us a food etc.) During that one week we noticed that people no matter what we use to say nowadays enjoy to help eachother:)