Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938

This exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Houston Menil Collection and the Chicago Museum of Art was the first Lena Magritte year focused on the best breakthrough surrealist era in the 20th century. Creators of some people. Photo Magrit started in 1926 when he originally created a painting "challenging the real world" in his own words and ended in 1938 - an important moment of history and biography before the outbreak of World War II - exhibition Association Tracking The most creative and experimental strategy and theme among the rich careers of Central Artist. Displacement, deformation, metamorphosis, visual "appearance" of the object "wrong", and half awakening are one of Magrit's innovative imaging strategies in these critical times.

In this exhibition, about 80 paintings, collages, objects, carefully selected photographs, periodicals, and early commercial works were gathered, and about Magritte's identity as a contemporary painter and surrealists artist New insights are obtained. The exhibition comes with a rich catalog of illustrations.

The exhibition is held at the Museum of Modern Art, Menil Collection and the Chicago Art Museum. The exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art is hosted by Anne Umland, Blanche Hook Rockefeller curator of painting and sculpture, Daniel Johnson, and assistant professor of painting and sculpture.

In 1926, Mugrit signed a contract with the Brussels Art Museum, which made him a full time painter. The following year, the gallery held his first solo exhibition including Lost Jockey (1926) who thought he was his first surrealist collage. However, this exhibition was not accepted by art critics of the time. In 1927, he and his wife moved to suburbs of Paris. So, he met many Surrealists in Paris including poets Andre Breton and Paul Elyde, familiarized with Max Ernst 's collage. Magrit began to integrate the text into some of his works, during which he painted the image of treachery, one of his most famous works, the detailed expression of the pipeline was combined with the cursive writing it was done. Do not add pipes ("This is not a pipe"). This picture cast doubt on the image and the authority of the word.

This exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Houston Menil Collection and the Chicago Museum of Art was the first Lena Magritte year focused on the best breakthrough surrealist era in the 20th century. Creators of some people. Photo Magrit started in 1926 when he originally created a painting "challenging the real world" in his own words and ended in 1938 - an important moment of history and biography before the outbreak of World War II - exhibition Association Tracking The most creative and experimental strategy and theme among the rich careers of Central Artist. Displacement, deformation, metamorphosis, visual "appearance" of the object "wrong", and half awakening are one of Magrit's innovative imaging strategies in these critical times.