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Francois Tremaine's

     GALLERIE
      d'ART

   produced by
   Jerry Jones

  copyright 1986
  BIG BLUE DISK
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Welcome to our
presentation of
the works of Rene'
Magritte (1898-
1967).  Let's
take a look at
five of his
pictures.
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"The Song of
the Sirens"
(1952), shows
a man facing
the sea with
his back to
the viewer.  On
the wall behind
him are a
lighted candle
and a leaf.  By
hiding the face
of the man and
by using the
candle and leaf
as symbols, the
artist sets a
mood of mystery
and wonder.
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"The Song
  of the
  Sirens"
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"The Voice of the
Winds" (1928),
uses the symbolic
imagery of three
bells hovering
over a landscape.
Magritte said of
the painting,
"I'd prefer to
believe that the
iron bells hang-
ing from our fine
horse's necks
grew there like
poisonous plants
on the edge of
precipices."
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 "The Voice
of the Winds"
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Magritte painted
many images of
tobacco pipes.
This picture, "The
Philosopher's
Lamp"(1935), shows
a man with his
nose stuffed in
the bowl of his
pipe.  A snake-
like candle sits
beside him.
^P
Magritte once
stated: "The
famous pipe.
How people
reproach me for
it!  And yet,
could you stuff
my pipe?  No,
it's just a
representation,
is it not?  So
if I had written
on my picture
'This is a
pipe,' I'd have
been lying!"
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"The Philosopher's Lamp"
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"The Red Model"
(1935) demonstrates
the power of the
surrealist image.
Here we have some-
thing we experience
every day when we
are dressing: the
uniting of the foot
with the shoe.  But
the artist shows us
just how frighten-
ing the most
ordinary things can
be when looked at
from a slightly
different point of
view.
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 The
 Red
Model

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"The Lovers"
(1928) is an
intense depic-
tion of emotion
even though the
faces that we
expect to convey
the emotion are
masked. The
covered heads
project a sense
of isolation more
fully than if the
expressions were
completely
revealed to us.
^P
In this painting
the thought is
more important
than the view.
Magritte makes us
hear the unheard
silence.
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"The Lovers"
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  I trust you've
enjoyed your visit
to my fine gallery.
I am expecting a
new collection in
at any time now.

  I'll be letting
you know about it
soon.

  'Til then,

    Au revoir!

