Le Salon se Dieu really reminds me of the time I tried some full-color night vision goggles, seeing normal looking surroundings while the sky remained dark with blazing stars. The combination was a minor source of awe to experience, the ability to see your surroundings clear as day without the oppressive brightness of a sun. Lights we normally encounter exposes what is in the shadows, but can hide things just as much by removing the contrast from a scene. But a thing I noticed, in both the painting and the experience I had, is that the light had no directionality to it. And that it reveals without also obscuring. The title and this makes me feel like it could be used as a meditation on the concept of omnipresence in a way that your senses can process. Something that exposes without also obscuring, that comes from nowhere and is going everywhere.
Golconde is my favorite Magritte painting but I love virtually everything he did. So intriguing, disturbing, thought-provoking, breathtaking, even at times playfully humorous. Imagery aside, he was an amazingly competent painter, too, conjuring the fantastic with startling realism.
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To me the Empire of Light always looked like a kind of exaggerated sunset, where the sun is behind the houses resulting in the sky being lit up but the front of the houses being in shade
Magritte was just an extremely talented eccentric dude, like Van Gogh was earlier. RM just but his mad thoughts onto canvass and if he was around now he'd be a billionaire. Legend in every way.
One of my favorite Magrittes. Does anyone know if he was explicitly influenced by Saussurean or Peircean linguistics and semiotics? His stuff certainly seems fitting.
