Rene Magritte Museum, Brussels

Rene Magritte’s museum in Brussels has witty and thought-provoking surreal artworks. These challenge observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality and force viewers to become hypersensitive to their surroundings. 

Few artworks that could be photographed: 

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Experiencing Joan Miro’s art, Barcelona

“I’m pleased to have created an open space - a place where people can stroll around and learn something. The Foundation is a space open to the arts and to life. Its architecture, which we owe to Sert’s talents, is light and airy, ideal for viewing art and contemplating nature: a garden for everybody.”

- Joan Miro interviewed by Santiago Amon on 25th June 1978.

Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an “assassination of painting” in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

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More from Dali Museum, Figueres

These installations convey different meanings from different positions. As one moves or changes point of view, elements combine to generate illusions. 

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Gala looking at the sea, Dali Museum - Figueres

In the museum-handbook, the painting of ‘Gala looking at the Sea’ consists a pix-elated portrait of  President Lincoln at the bottom of the picture. If one steps back about 20 mtrs, it takes the form of a portrait of Lincoln, same as the pix-elated face of President Lincoln in the handbook and conveys a different meaning. 

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