Surrealism Beyond Borders. A new anthology written by the Tate Modern

René Magritte on the other hand is another beautiful example of how Surrealists were mixing realities. His “La durée poignardée” (“Time Transfixed”) from 1938 shows a locomotive leaving a dining room fireplace. Now what might sound quite interesting as a combination was actually perceived as an affinity by the artist. Magritte always found absurd associations between the most prosaic objects and combined/painted them in a perfectly figurative way. On top he often gave titles that had absolutely nothing to do with the paintings themselves just to increase the absurdity and simultaneously make people think and find possible connections. His form of Surrealism shows fragmentation as an aesthetic strategy, and subsequent juxtaposition of the things he depicted. And this – might I add – with an delicious sobriety.