"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?