Magritte or the Object Lesson
Magritte or the Object Lesson
5.6 La Leçon de choses ou Magritte
1960, 14 m
Documentary
The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of mystery consists of images of familiar things gathered or transformed in such a way that they no longer conform to our ideas, whether naive or wise.