Rene Magritte The land of miracles
The first piece of art that I appropriated was the land of
miracles by Rene Magritte. Magritte is known for creating witty and thought
provoking images. He always accomplishes this in a very simple way. He takes
common everyday objects and puts them into contexts that are unusual. He
challenges the viewer of the piece to think very differently. That is why I
chose Magritte in particular; I like the way he creates illusion like scenes
with ordinary objects by manipulating how we are use to seeing things. With
this particular piece he is creating an idea of this entirely different space
within an object itself by using its profile as a window into the space.
Challenging us to think, maybe this space is where this bouquet of flowers came
from, or maybe this is a location that the flowers remind him of. It challenges
the viewer to think and it pulls the viewer from one world into another. I
wanted to bring those exact ideas into my version of the piece, while also
keeping a fun connection to the original piece. I decided to set the scene as a
scene I see all of the time, my desk. This piece is supposed to symbolize how I
feel when I pull an all nighter at my computer. I get to a point where I feel
that I am being pulled into the computer itself. So I decided to display that
feeling using Magritte’s concept in his piece the land of the miracles. I also
tried to use some elements in my piece to link it to Magritte’s piece. The IMac
resembles the vase, the blue suited man resembles the blue tinted woods scene,
the background has similar color and texture, and the funniest element is the
scrambled eggs which resembles the bird eggs in Magritte’s painting. And one
last element I added that no one would know without me saying so is what I did
in the background. The desk surface is actually a picture of a wall, and the
wall is actually a picture of a desk. I did that to take my own try on Magritte’s
style of using daily objects in unusual contexts.
Rene Magritte The explanation
The second piece of art that I appropriated was the
explanation also by Rene Magritte. Like I already explained in the first work
above Magritte is known for creating witty and thought provoking images. He
does it by taking everyday objects and putting them into unusual contexts. His
goal is always to challenge the observer, challenge their way of thinking. This
particular piece of his is pretty bizarre. In this piece he basically takes
what looks like a wine bottle and a carrot and morphs them to be one new object
in the still life scene. I believe the meaning behind this piece is all in how
you see it. I think it could mean anything you wanted it to mean. For me I like
to think that as an artist Magritte had still life objects sitting around his
house, and one day he just looked at these same common objects so long that his
imagination ran away with it. And one day he visualized what it would look like
if two of them were merged together. That’s how I thought about it, so
instantly as an industrial design student I started thinking about all of the
things I constantly come in contact with in that profession. I let my
imagination run wild with that. And I got to thinking these are all hand held
tools, what if they were a part of my hand because honestly they pretty much
are, I use them constantly. And that’s how I got to the idea for this piece
based on the concepts, and the feeling and thoughts I get from the explanation
by Magritte. To try to keep a connection to the original piece I structured it
in a similar way. Keeping the morphed item on the right, and the un- morphed
items on the left.
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