René Magritte: Great Art Explained
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In The Lovers II, by Magritte, he takes the cinematic cliché but disrupts our voyeuristic pleasure by covering the faces in cloth. A moment of connection becomes one of isolation, of sexual frustration. An intimate moment becomes something dark and effortlessly disturbing. Something hidden and anonymous.
Rene Magritte denied that his traumatic childhood was connected in any way with his art, but in this episode, I look at the possibility that his past affected him more than he admitted.
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BOOKS, CATALOGUES AND ESSAYS
Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev
Rene Magritte: The Artist's Materials by Catherine Defeyt, Francisca Vandepitte, et al.
Magritte: The Treachery of Images by Didier Ottinger
René Magritte: The Revealing Image by Xavier Canonne
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
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I watch your videos over and over. ❤ I love them .
rené magritte: *paints his childhood trauma*
rené magritte: “this is not my childhood trauma”
By far the best art history essayist on TH-cam. Straight to the point, no dumb jokes or animations, just decisive information. Wonderful.
Best comment of the day -thank you 🙏
Agree
agree there are too many like inserts, visual memes and jokes out there
Exactly thank you.
Perfectly said. I wish more creators took a page out of his book.
Slightly stunned to realise how little I knew about Magritte the person and his life, considering how fascinated I've been by his art. Kind of heartening to hear about someone whose life started out with so much trauma to find supportive love and acclaim as an artist before death.
You have illuminated the world of art for me and taken me on a magical journey. Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed it!
@@GreatArtExplainedyes it was really really interesting….all your videos are.
True!!!!
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Please like and leave a comment - it really helps promote the film. I appreciate it!
You have helped me appreciate art more, so ima like and comment all day!
Here is your comment, sir. Thanks for the channel.
In Houston, we have the second largest Magritte collection (second only to the museum in Brussels) at the Menil Collection. It’s free and they have so much of his art that it gets constantly rotated. It’s worth going frequently.
I’ve lived in Lessines for all my life and that is so weird to hear the name of my small belgian town in one of your videos!
Fun fact: the house in which Magritte was born still stands here (near the station), but they misplaced the commemorative plate indicating that event and put it on the neighbour’s house. I guess you could call that a surrealistic mistake
Keep up the great work!
That’s a great story thanks 🙏
This is not a comment.
It’s art, the greatest comment ever conceived
Ta gueule au pire
This is not a reply
Is the comment for the reader, or the writer?
I ponder that myself. @@---l---
His art is so smooth; the mention of "no brush strokes" was enlightening, as I had not paid attention to it's abcesnce in Magritte. Possibly because there is so much more to engage the mind, and that's its beauty. Every time I look at one of his pieces, another thought, another possibility, comes into existence. It is never the same, quite like poetry. You might read a poem one day, in one mood, and read it again another day and it feels like it isn't even the same poem. Very enticing, he must have been a fantastic advertiser!
I always found Magritte's style oddly appealing, it's fascinating to learn how much of his work was directly affected by death of his mother. Amazing quality once again, thank you.
Excellent narration, analysis, and production. Thank you for gifting us this splendid form of education
Glad you enjoyed it!
One of my favorite artists! Thank you for covering him! 🙌🏻
My pleasure!!
Thank you for this film! It’s amazing! I saw his paintings in Brussels when I temporarily lived. I’m Ukrainian refugee and live in Belgium since the war started. I have the opportunity to discover this artist for me. Thank for this explanation of his life and art.
Thanks for watching 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
Thinking of you and all those suffering from the war.
@@kathyjohnson2043Thank you!! We all pray for the Ukrainian’s Victory!!!
babe wake up, James just uploaded
Ha!
Terrific content, as always! I did not know he had so little fame during his lifetime. It was good to see he got some measure of success at the end.
Magritte was an excellent choice.
I could watch this all day long.
Great content again. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really am fascinated by the fact that he uses plain and simple brush strokes just to make the scene itself even louder! Our minds can only process a limited amount of input at a time, so imagine if he chose complicated techniques and fancy strokes, the perceiver would be easily distracted from the blunt, core meaning of the imagery itself.
This man is a genius.
Great episode. Learning more about the man behind the paintings has me thinking about Magritte's influence on the fashion designer (and fellow Belgian) Martin Margiela, for whom concealment, disguise, and signifier are bedrock themes. Margiela sought new meaning from well-worn sartorial conventions, deconstructing found objects and putting them back together in unexpected and provocative new forms: shoes that resembled hooves, fur coats constructed from wigs. He experimented with extreme distortions of form and proportion, and used tromp l'oeil effects to create the appearance of objects that weren't really there.
But perhaps the strongest influence borrowed from Magritte is the mask. During the height of the supermodel era, Margiela's models often wore shrouds and veils that obstructed their faces. It was a statement on the anonymizing effect of dressing for modern life, but also a reflection of the designer's deep and unwavering aversion to fame. He declined all interviews in his tenure as a designer, even at the height of his influence.
I never even realized that “the Lovers” and “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” are from the same artist! Thank you!
I'm a proud Belgian because of Magritte. Thanks for this amazing video❤
If I were a Belgian, I also would be one :) love Magritte!
Love Rene Magritte
Honestly, I didn't concern myself with Magritte before watching this video. I appreciated his paintings, but there was nothing too interesting about the man behind them.
Now, I need to know more about this artist and his work! I had no idea that he was influenced by Edgar Allan Poe or how he used surrealism in a way I didn't think was possible.
Thank you for introducing me to Rene Magritte and his (now) fascinating art!
Today’s the day this work stops mystifying me. Thank you Mr. Payne.
Such a nice comment thanks 🙏
Thanks to the gawdawful remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, which heavily features Magritte's art, I had to watch the infamous chess scene from the original film after watching this. 🍏😉 I'm so glad that you pointed out repeatedly that this artist didn't offer any clues to analyze his work. This burden lies with the audience, should they wish to traverse the unconscious feelings stirred by his art. I loved your inclusion of Magritte's word paintings, his dislike of the process, and the intentionally private life he led. Thank you!
You help me love art even more with each video you create. Thanks so much!
I'm so glad!
So good, you never miss- Magritte is hugely relatable as a person. His limitations of language screams Wittgenstein's Tractatus which was published in 1922. Now going to have to go and explore that and see if there is a link !
In a modern world of the insipid, the mundane and the chasing of happiness that is always just beyond the horizon…… there is no greater joy than the mesmerising content and depth of thought of Great Art Explained
Bravo to its creator, narrator and innovator! 🎉
This channel is *_chefs kisses_** And I just found out about your other channel! *Great Books Explained* Subscribed instantly. Literature and art are my 2nd and 3rd favorite things, music is #1.
Welcome aboard!
Thanks for the heads up!
I’ve seen this one at the MoMA in NYC, and this one always puzzled me. Thanks for solving it!
Any time!
I snuck past the security guard at the DAM, touched one of his paintings, and ran away giggling.
This channel has single-handedly made me understand art on a level I previously thought unattainable to an art layman like myself
I've been waiting for this all week! ❤
Hope you enjoyed it!
Your voice is like music to my ears. Thank you for this beautiful introduction ❤❤
So nice of you
I'm always amazed by how interesting each of you videos are. I'm an art idiot and feel comfortable consuming your videos and being able to digest your wonderful ideas. Thanks
Thanks 🙏
A Magritte exhibition was the first time I genuinely had fun in a Museum as a child. Perfect video again, thank you!
You seriously do the best art analysis out there. So digestible and professional at the same time.
This video is so informative
One of my favourite channels on this platform. Just wonderful. Now on to tell my roommate about the meaning of her tattoo of the Lovers II!
I’ve been patiently waiting for this one and am so happy to finally get to watch and listen. Thank you 🙏
Hope you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much for the video! ❤️
You are so welcome!
Extremely well done! I know Magritte, but not of his life and the roots of his influences. Always a great pleasure to watch your videos, so well explained and analyse. I truly appreciate all your efforts you put into your articulate and intelligent work!!
Big thank you!!
These videos feel timeless to me. I don't know how they could be improved or replaced. As long as people continue to use this platform, there will be people watching them for a long time. They are very easy to pick up and are very informative. I imagine you're helping a lot of future artists and art historians by making them aware of the vast field many education systems neglect until university.
very, very tragic paintimgs. One can feel his childhood pain via the paintings.
one of my favorites! excellent
Another terrific video of an artist’s work I’ve always admired even though I appreciated it on a very superficial level. Thanks to you I now appreciated and understand it a bit more profoundly.
Wow! What great scholarship! Thank you so much for doing this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My art teacher in school taught us about artist’s works and lives. It always deepened my appreciation of the work. Truly fascinating. This brilliant series is so well done. Beautiful narration, concise, and informative. What a lovely thing to learn about, thank you to the creator for this effort.
Another amazing video! I especially love this one since it includes my favorite painting ❤
Thank you so much 😀
The Magritte museum in Brussels doesn't even have this much insight into the artist. Fantastic video and thank you truly for your work. I had to leave art behind when I left school but it was always my favorite subject and you are the most insightful connection I still have to it.
As a musician, I want to perform the manuscript music in the Lost Jockey.
I'm an artist who has been obsessed with Magritte for many decades. I found your evaluation well researched and presented and your commentary thoughtful and insightful. It's always a pleasure to see good art criticism.
Such a pleasure to watch these videos. I haven’t find anything not even close to them in TH-cam. Thanks Mr Payne!
That was great. Rob Gonsalves is probably my all time favorite artist and he took a lot of inspiration from René. And you can plainly see it in the examples in your video. Excellent work again.
Thanks 🙏
This is one of my favorite TH-cam channels, and I'm always excited when a new video arrives. I especially liked this one, and I plan to explore more of Magritte's art. Thank you!
Love your channel. Great explanation of each artist. Thank you. 💜
Thank you so much!
Thank you for another amazing video! 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another brilliant episode.
I enjoyed your video so much! Magritte is my favourite artist! I've been looking forward to this video a long time, and you did not disappoint! Thanks for all your hard work! It's greatly appreciated! :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Taken alone, and with the knowledge you added of his fondness for detective stories and his familiarity of the darkness of life, Lovers II could be seen as the last moments of a couple, trapped by secret police as spies and not afforded judgement in court, shrouded and about to be executed.
Loved getting to watch this early on Patreon! Well done as always.
Thanks for supporting me - Much appreciated!
It isn’t time to shun our lyre hearts;
some instrument our former sculptures held.
The strings that dried to rust cannot be plucked,
their notes sublime as orbs the Hubble found.
What gave our lyre hearts a rhythmic loop?
No timeless hymn includes a break for ads;
an anthem of thy 9 to 5 commute-
-our chorus Freedom now much shorter lasts.
Some sounds were meant for only you to make,
and you remember what the lyre chirped.
Confound we are with notes that Cupid played.
No music ever pumped a finer course.
Our strings we could’ve plucked on all along
will rust because we're forced a different song.
Magritte's my favorite artist and yet I knew less about his personal life compared to other famous artist. In a way, it really speaks to the striking simplicity of his artwork. It's really carried by the concept of each painting. I could imagine him working today as a graphic designer and the art would still be iconic because of the way he uses symbol.
Heartening to know that painting isn’t about making money but creating. As Magritte did. ❤ Great episode.
Yet again a fantastic video!
you just made my Friday!
Glad to hear it!
Thank you so much for making this! I know it wasn’t specifically because of my comment, because lots of people suggested Magritte + there was a poll after that he won… but still, I suggested Magritte too because he’s one of my favorites, and definitely my favorite surrealist :) so I’m very happy to have this video!
The high quality of your films always brings me appreciation for the artists and their art that I would not achieve any other way.
Magritte is one of my favourites. This is a treat.
My interpretation of Magritte is that he was a born contrarian. His work was an effortless embodiment of his appreciation for the obfuscation or frustration of meaning, for the reason that the exposure to this phenomenon produced in him (and he hoped, his viewers) a peculiarly captivating experience.
This is the best art channel on youtube. Thanks for all the vids🙂
Wow, thank you!
Your work is so precious, so necessary and I am so grateful to have discovered this Chanel. Mille mercis ❤
I took it for granted that he had great mainstream success for a good portion of his life. Good to see that he did get a slice of acclaim at the end though, at least to show him that his art wouldn't get binned after he died
Magritte is a favorite of mine. Thank you very much.
I can watch these videos even if they are an hour long. Thanks for keeping my love for fine arts alive. 🙏🏼 ❤
Glad you like them!
Personal note: always was a big fan of Magritte, considering his work closer to pop than fine but feeling an affinity for his concepts and implied commentary. We need a little shaking up and distortion in art to make us aware of subjectivity and the deeper questions of life. I think you did a great job interpersing photos and films of the man himself, who seemed genuine and unapologetic about his personal statement. Fun stuff.
Once again this channel has posted a fascinating and informative video that I will watch several times over. I’d like to express how appreciative I am to have access to such knowledge on great art and artists. I would never have been able to afford art classes or travel to see all of these masterpieces but through this channel I can still take part in these seminal achievements of humanity.
A Covid Kiss
Yes I thought of that often
Yes one of the Vogue covers in April 2020. Totally Magritte
Saying I was excited your next video was on Magritte would‘ve been an understatement! Your art analyses have been a joy to watch and have piqued my interest for art history. Thank you :)
Happy to help out with a comment and a compliment. Great work, your channel is the most interesting on the Tube. Funny how we can’t actually watch on a cathode ray tube!
Dear James Payne I am very much indebted for your such enlightening documentary series. This is the only you tube channel which I waited with bated breath for every of it's update. Please consider to select Caspar David Friedrich for one of your next episode. He was a source of inspiration for Samuel Beckett's - Waiting for Godot by his -Two Men Contemplating the Moon - painting . And I sincerely hope you can create a great contrast from his - Wanderer above the sea of fog - painting to - Owls on graves - drawings.
Thank you!
Such an original and fresh explanation of Magritte's work. Very enjoyable. Love your videos!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great biography. Knew very little about Magritte. Wonderful photos accompanying the film. Fabulous!
Magritte was a huge influence on Storm Thorgerson, and this is how I ended up watching your art history video (not the first I might add). I now have a deeper understanding where Thorgerson's creative work evolved from. Magritte's work was truely mind bending, influencial and inspiring. Thank you for the video, I truely enjoyed it and learned a lot.
as someone who knows almost nothing about art but always finds it beautiful, i can’t explain to you how much I appreciate a channel that analyzes an artist’s background and motivations, their techniques and important works in a way that even someone who has no idea about art and art history can understand and appreciate it. despite it being so out of my expertise, it’s still feels as though I learned something new about the art world that I would’ve never gotten around to knowing otherwise. thank you for all the efforts you make to create these beautiful videos!
The Lovers 2 is my favorite painting of his!! It touched me deeply the first time I saw it. Great Video🫶
Didn't know almost anything about René Magritte. This was a great video, and i am glad to know more now!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for your appreciation and dedication.
Thank you!
3:21 oh man, oh man… this changes everything…😢
Fantastic! One of my favorites, I didn’t expect to see one of your episodes dedicated to him. Great surprise 😮
This was great. I am loving this channel. I have been wanting to learn more about famous works of art. Google knows what to throw at me and one of these videos was suggested. I'm glad I clicked on it
Fantastic video! What a rich and humbly-lived life.
I love your videos. And, although I wouldn't have clicked on a video on this subject created by someone else, I can still appreciate and enjoy your excellent presentation. I hope you continue to create these videos for many years to come
I'm so glad!
Sometimes I think this channel is the only reason why I use TH-cam. Thank you for EVERYTHING you do!! ☆☆☆
I really enjoyed this video, thank you so much for your amazing content 🤍
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've always felt attracted to Magritte's work. It's great to know a bit more about his motivations and his personality. Thanks!
Your videos keep getting better, I love the little touches you add here and there, like the music introducing a new chapter. It's such a pleasure to watch your videos. Thank you so much for your work!
Thank you very much!
One of my favorite things to do when I'm high is come and watch a video from your channel. You've really made me love art, can't wait to see more videos!
I had never heard that bit of trivia about his connection to Fantômas. Very interesting!
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Love the night/day paintings the most. So beautiful.
Love your videos and your work on explaining the art world and artists I love. I've never really looked into Magritte so thanks so much for this
Your videos always inspire me and I'd love to make similar ones some day ☀️
Thanks 🙏