2nd Review

 

Also on Thursday the 23rd of June I attended another exhibition called Rene Magritte The Pleasure Principle at the Tate gallery in Liverpool. The late artist Magritte painted all the pictures in the exhibition which range from the brilliant artistic pieces to the almost schoolboy, pornographic drawings behind the black curtain... 

The majority of these pictures though are almost things of beauty from the picture of the two people kissing with cloth around their head or just a man with a lightbulb instead of a head. These two images alone gives you an insight into magritte's constructive and imaginative mind. In comparison also you wouldn't think that these two pictures are by the same artist and I think that this is another quality of Magritte in the fact that no two of his pictures look the same. 

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The pictures can vary though from those exquisite ones from the top paragraph to the ones which you look at and then turn away straight away because they lack the certain imagination the you'd expect from Magritte given the standard of the two above.

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Then of course are the pornographic drawings behind the black curtain which resemble yet another side to Magritte. This is not really a good side though as they are almost like schoolboy drawings. 

 

Overall though this is a fantastic exhibition and is definitetly worth seeing. A majority of the art is weird but absolutely remarkable with so many different people and landscapes. The exhibition is well layed out we plenty of space for each picture so that you give each picture an equal amount of attention. For more information about this exquisite exhibition visit    http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/renemagritte/default.shtm

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