MSN: Cuando Magritte se ocultó tras una manzana en El hijo del hombre
Una manzana flota delante del rostro de un hombre de traje y bombín. Ese es el punto de partida —y el enigma— de El hijo del hombre, una de las obras más icónicas del pintor belga René Magritte.
Cuando Magritte se ocultó tras una manzana en El hijo del hombre
Irish Examiner: Book review: A delightful and definitive biography of surrealist René Magritte
The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...
The Guardian: Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev review – a man of mystery
This insightful biography of the surrealist painter contends that to his peers he was a hero and outsider who resisted symbolic readings of his art Unlike his surrealist contemporaries, René Magritte ...
Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev review – a man of mystery
Magritte did not always focus his artistic vision on the works that many people often associate him with: isolated male figures adorned with bowler hats, smoking pipes with ironic captions, or ...
A question asked repeatedly as a joke: How many Belgians can you name? Well, here is one: René Magritte, surrealist. Alex Danchev, author of Magritte: A Life, may not be a household name but is well ...
The Guardian: Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev review – virtuosic portrait of a star surrealist
Whether capturing his fractured home life or the wider political currents of the time, this is an expert analysis of the Belgian artist’s life Given the ubiquity of René Magritte’s images in our ...