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“Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938”
Museum of Modern Art, Sat 28–Jan 12
One of the titanic names of 20th-century art—and certainly one of the most popular and recognizable—René Magritte (1898–1967) is synonymous with a specific vision in which our experience of the ordinary is thrown into doubt, and real life seems invaded by dreams. The uncanny effect of his work was due precisely to the fact that Magritte, as a painter, stuck tightly to realist script in order to upend the conventions of realism. This retrospective focuses on the years 1925 to 1938, the period when he developed his iconic style that spoke eloquently of its time: the uneasy interlude between World Wars.
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