About Magritte Surrealism (1929)
Belgian Surrealism rendered as a design system: the brushless, bourgeois calm of René Magritte around 1929, the year he painted a pipe and wrote "this is not a pipe" beneath it. Flat cerulean skies, marching clouds, precise realist objects suspended in enormous negative space. The wit lives in the gap between a thing and its name. Nothing is decorative for its own sake — a green apple interrupts, a caption quietly contradicts, and the whole page behaves like a canvas that insists "this is not a button."
- Origin
- Brussels and Paris
- Era
- 1926–1938 (peak surrealist period; The Treachery of Images, 1929)
- Key figures
- René Magritte · Paul Nougé · E.L.T. Mesens · Marcel Lecomte · André Breton
- Movements
- Surrealism · Belgian Surrealism · word-and-image conceptual painting
Magritte Surrealism (1929) design spec
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