Two Lovers

René Magritte - Two Lovers 1928

This artist was made pop culture famous for his bowler hat painting that got used to such great effect in the movie The Thomas Crown Affair,
and I was at a seasonal celebration dinner where an artist wannabe girlfriend was warbling on about him being her favorite artist. She called him a surrealist. I cannot say I share her opinion on either count but I thought I'd use this blog as a forum to explore the taste of others as well as my own.

So, love is blind, we're essentially separate, and yet we yearn to mesh...?

Whatever, there's gotta be much hotter and heavier images for Lovers out there, unless you're the depressive kind. I feel this kind of art should come with Prozac tablets, or pens so you could poke your eyes out later and be done with it. Compare this to Chagall, with his flying ladies and goats and violins, his "Lovers" are so intertwined, girls head on boys chest in a garden...still tame and bit sad but a little less bleak, a little less lets not have identities, hide ourselves and attack the other with our passion. Hmmm, maybe this painting is growing on me.


"Cat Among the Pigeons"