Magritte: Intepretation of Dreams

Interpretation of Dreams
Rene Magritte
81 x 60 cm
Oil
1930

What one must paint is the image of resemblance—if thought is to become visible in the world.
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From 1927-30, Magritte painted a series of "word paintings." In an article he wrote for a Surrealist publication titled, "Words and Images," Magritte discussed the relationship between the two: "An object is not so attached to its names that one cannot find another which suits it better." In his systematic, compartmentalized composition, Magritte points out the arbitrary nature of language. (It is difficult to read the words in this reproduction, but they do not correspond to the images) Alphabetic symbols have no direct correlation to the objects to which they refer; this is the nature of semiosis.
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