Magritte or the Object Lesson
Genres
Overview
The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of mystery consists of images of familiar things gathered or transformed in such a way that they no longer conform to our ideas, whether naive or wise.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
14 min
Release Date
1960-01-01
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Vote Count
10
Vote Average
5.6
Serge Sauvion
Self - Narrator (voice)
René Magritte
Self - Painter (uncredited)
Marcel Lecomte
Self - Writer (uncredited)
Louis Scutenaire
Self - Writer (uncredited)
Camille Goemans
Self - Writer (uncredited)
Irène Hamoir
Self - Writer (uncredited)
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