RRAW: Annotation "Magritte"

"Magritte"

Refference:

Meuris, Jacques. (1988). Magritte: New York:Artabras,c1988.

The reason why I find Magritte's paintings interesting is because of the fact that his work leaves those that view his work in curiosity. I believe that his work keeps people contemplating on what the concept is of each painting that he creates because once you see one of his paintings you begin to get overwhelmed by the numerous interpretations that come to mind. In the book it states, "Tackling Rene Magritte and his work with a view to furnishing explanations is rather like attacking a well-defended fortress. It means mounting an assault, by way of successive decodings, on something that at least looks undecodable. The fact is that each painting, each image, we can even say, each "reality" addresses each one of us differently." After reading this passage from the book I came to realize that with Magritte's paintings he doesn't give them a certain meaning instead he leaves the meaning of each painting up to the ones that view it. 

I chose to do an annotation on Magritte because after doing some research on his paintings I realized that with the way he does his work is similar to how I want my work to be. What I mean by that is not limiting my work to a certain meaning, instead having my work consists of different meanings which usually depends on how the viewer takes the artwork in. Although most of my work has been based upon photography, screen printing and film making lately I still have a desire to paint and draw as well. I believe that the traits in  Magritte's paintings can be expressed in any other line of work not just painting. An example would be comparing the way he leaves the meaning of his paintings to the audience which is similar to what I do with my photographs and drawings.