{"product_id":"rene-magritte-the-fifth-season-hardcover","title":"René Magritte: The Fifth Season - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRené Magritte\u003c\/b\u003e (Artist), \u003cb\u003eCaitlin Haskell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMichel Draguet\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books))\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMagritte's extraordinary late paintings\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Ren  Magritte reached his 40s, something unexpected happened. The painter, who had honed an iconic Surrealist style between 1926 and 1938, suddenly started making paintings that looked almost nothing like his earlier work. First he adopted an Impressionist aesthetic, borrowing the sweet, hazy palette of Pierre-Auguste Renoir--which he described as \"sunlit Surrealism.\" Then his style shifted again, incorporating popular imagery, the brash colors of Fauvism and the gestural brushwork of Expressionism. And then Magritte returned to his classic style as if nothing had happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRen  Magritte: The Fifth Season\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the art Magritte made during and after the stylistic crises of the 1940s, revealing his shifting attitudes toward painting. Subjects explored in this volume include the artist's Renoir period; the \u003ci\u003ep riode vache\u003c\/i\u003e, with its Fauvist- and Expressionist-style paintings that are little known to American audiences; the \"hypertrophy of objects\" paintings, a series that plays with the scale of familiar objects; and the enigmatic \u003ci\u003eDominion of Light\u003c\/i\u003e suite, paintings that suggest the simultaneous experience of day and night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing full-color plates of approximately 50 oil paintings, and a dozen of the artist's gouaches, \u003ci\u003eRen  Magritte: The Fifth Season\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new understanding of Magritte's special position in the history of 20th-century art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a career of almost half a century, Belgian Surrealist \u003cb\u003eRen  Magritte \u003c\/b\u003e (1898-1967) probed the distance between object, language and image. Even as he playfully explored new styles, his painting practice remained consistent in its cautionary message not to equate the observable world with reality in all its fullness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 10.7 x 8.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 24, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769822904608,"sku":"9781942884231","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/af0ab1d678a2bc7560d383031b9978a2.webp?v=1780357672","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rene-magritte-the-fifth-season-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}