Thanks! My pre-cut box of cars came in handy and then I found that image to place it on in an auction catalogue (the Magritte was lot 51) which mystically coincided with the year of that Ford Mercury -- 1951 on the license plate!
I never bothered to look a the title of the painting but here it is with Magritte's own meaning behind it ... and it also relates to our challenge of broadening one's mind!!
He painted the sky as a metaphor for the mind, and the clouds, lazily drifting across the scene, as representative of thoughts. La Peine perdu (‘wasted effort’), painted between 1965 and 1967, depicts an icily blue midday sky and three theatre curtains. The work reflects the Belgian artist’s interest in the interior in relation to the exterior world. ‘The sky is a form of curtain, because it conceals something from us,’ he said enigmatically. ‘We are surrounded by curtains.’
I can see this Angie. Nothing is quite as it seems with Magritte Motoring.
ReplyDeleteExcellent! Love Magritte and your flashy american car goes well with his curtains!
ReplyDeleteThanks! My pre-cut box of cars came in handy and then I found that image to place it on in an auction catalogue (the Magritte was lot 51) which mystically coincided with the year of that Ford Mercury -- 1951 on the license plate!
ReplyDeleteI never bothered to look a the title of the painting but here it is with Magritte's own meaning behind it ... and it also relates to our challenge of broadening one's mind!!
ReplyDeleteHe painted the sky as a metaphor for the mind, and the clouds, lazily drifting across the scene, as representative of thoughts. La Peine perdu (‘wasted effort’), painted between 1965 and 1967, depicts an icily blue midday sky and three theatre curtains. The work reflects the Belgian artist’s interest in the interior in relation to the exterior world. ‘The sky is a form of curtain, because it conceals something from us,’ he said enigmatically. ‘We are surrounded by curtains.’