Attempting the Impossible by Rene Magritte (1928) – Unisex tee

£20.00

In Attempting the Impossible, Magritte shows himself painting a naked woman into thin air. Women and strong colors dominate many of his early works. In 1925, Magritte abandoned his experiments with abstraction and decided “only to paint objects with all their visible details”. By displaying objects in strange situations he could “challenge the real world”. Paradox and contrast became a recurring motif in Magritte’s work. Two separate concepts are brought together and hybridized, taking certain pieces of each to create a new concept.
Magritte was fond of illusions and problems of visual perception. How do you see things, and can you trust what you see? He used the symbols of windows, eyes, curtains, and pictures within pictures to explore these questions. Whereas his contemporary Salvador Dali painted hallucinatory dreamscapes of the mind, Magritte was content to stay within the reality of the visibly world. He places before us ordinary objects from our everyday lives and gave them new meaning – he forces us look at them from a new, slightly tilted, perspective. Magritte altered the viewer to the process of seeing.

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In Attempting the Impossible, Magritte shows himself painting a naked woman into thin air. Women and strong colors dominate many of his early works. In 1925, Magritte abandoned his experiments with abstraction and decided “only to paint objects with all their visible details”. By displaying objects in strange situations he could “challenge the real world”. Paradox and contrast became a recurring motif in Magritte’s work. Two separate concepts are brought together and hybridized, taking certain pieces of each to create a new concept.
Magritte was fond of illusions and problems of visual perception. How do you see things, and can you trust what you see? He used the symbols of windows, eyes, curtains, and pictures within pictures to explore these questions. Whereas his contemporary Salvador Dali painted hallucinatory dreamscapes of the mind, Magritte was content to stay within the reality of the visibly world. He places before us ordinary objects from our everyday lives and gave them new meaning – he forces us look at them from a new, slightly tilted, perspective. Magritte altered the viewer to the process of seeing.

• 100% cotton
• Sport Grey is 90% cotton, 10% polyester
• Ash Grey is 99% cotton, 1% polyester
• Heather colors are 50% cotton, 50% polyester
• Fabric weight: 5.0–5.3 oz/yd² (170-180 g/m²)
• Open-end yarn
• Tubular fabric
• Taped neck and shoulders
• Double seam at sleeves and bottom hem

 

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