"Two Lovers"
In the painting "Two Lovers" there are two people kissing with white sacks over their heads, one is a female with a red, burgundy like color dress on and the other is a male with a black blazer suit on with a white button up shirt and a black tie. Behind the two lovers are walls that shows us that they are standing in the corner of a building that consist of a teal wall in the back of them and a burgundy wall on the right side of them with a beige ceiling.
As I examine this painting of the two lovers, the sacks over their heads remind of what it looks like when someone is being kidnapped. The sacks are meant to restrict the subjects from seeing or noticing their surroundings. It also looks like an example of how someone can represent a forbidden love type of situation.
The reason why I felt this way about the painting is because when two people are forbidden to see each other but are willing to do anything for each other they sneak around to see each other. There are always difficulties within a relationship especially one that other people do not approve of. Another thing that this painting reminds me of is the saying, "Love is Blind" which means that once you do fall for someone you do become blinded by their flaws and only see what you love about the person.
After researching the meaning of the painting I was able to find a quote from the artist René Magritte himself which says, "My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable." Reading this quote from the artist himself made me realise that not every piece of art is meant to have a particular meaning to it, instead it can have different meanings to it.
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