Wednesday, September 4, 2002
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Wednesday, September 4, 2002 |
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High Museum to showcase surreal work of Magritte By MICHAEL
BOYLAN
Chances are you have seen a painting by Rene Magritte before. His surreal paintings are known for faceless men in bowler hats or giant green apples. If you haven't seen one of his works before, you now have a chance as the High Museum of Art will feature five of Magritte's paintings on loan from The Menil Collection in Houston. The Magritte exhibition is the third in a series that has already brought works by Renoir and van Gogh to Atlanta. The five paintings in the exhibition are "The Siren's Song," "The Dead Bird," "The Listening Room," "The Origins of Language," and "Evening Falls." "The Dead Bird" is from his early period, painted between 1926 and 1927, while he was still painting in Belgium and working with a group of writers, musicians and artists dabbling in Surrealism. The other paintings were painted between 1952 and 1964 when Magritte was in his mid fifties and sixties. He was living in Paris and began to achieve success as pop art became popular after World War II. His work remains popular today. In 1991, Jeff Beck put a Magritte work on the cover of his Beck-ola album. "Magritte's images of everyday objects in and out of the ordinary settings are a departure from what many people think of as Surrealism," said Carrie Przybilla, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum. "This exhibition challenges the idea that Surrealism only draws on the world of dreams and the occult, and shows that mysteries of the visible world can be much more perplexing." "The Mystique of Rene Magritte: Five Surrealist Paintings from The Menil Collection, Houston" will be on display at the High Museum of Art through Dec. 1. The museum is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sundays from 12-5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors, $4 for children ages 6-17 and free for Museum members and children under the age of six. Phone 404-733-HIGH or visit www.high.org.
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