Magritte: The artist who forged himself
Seeing double: The Flavour of Tears
One is an original. The other, evidently, a copy. But René Magritte was a Surrealist, and the truth behind The Flavour of Tears suggests he was enjoying a huge – and probably lucrative – joke.
The canvases – both dated 1948 – come together for the first time in Britain later this month as part of The Pleasure Principle, Tate Liverpool’s exhibition of the Belgian artist’s work, and the story behind them throws light on the artist’s early struggles. . .
It’s so Surreal… the artist who forged himself by Andrew McCorkell in The Independent.
In the first place can you forge yourself? If you do, is it meta or fake meta? Meta-meta? Or just…you? And isn’t it just like a Surrealist to do this?
Here’s Magritte’s Golconde, or as we call it, It’s Raining Men In Bowlers, and I still can’t find one that fits my head.
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June 16th, 2011 at 01:17
Golconde reminds me of Mary Poppins.
June 16th, 2011 at 02:13
Kung may payong.
Peter Sellers in Being There.
June 16th, 2011 at 03:45
Ah, yes! Tama ka!