René Magritte

René Magritte – a surrealist who transforms the familiar into a mystery.
His reality deceives our eye, and his irony makes us both smile and ponder.

Clean lines and calm colors hide unanswered questions. A thinker, a joker, a visionary, and a great artist who vividly shows us that we should not always trust our eyes, but we should always admire the world with them.

What exactly did Magritte bring to art, how did he change its perception by the audience, and how was his surrealism and earlier work received?
How did his work in advertising, his love for detective stories, and cinema shape his painting style?
What makes him so radically different from other artists, and how did he manage to become a rebel without causing a rebellion?
What is the significance of the objects in his works, and how did his childhood drama transform into a symbol of love in his paintings?

The lecture will be led by Pasha Rost — painter, illustrator, and graduate of the Florence Academy of Art, Faculty of Academic Painting.