Elective Affinities (painting)
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Elective Affinities
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| Artist |
René Magritte |
| Year |
1933 |
| Type |
Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions |
41 cm × 33 cm (20 in × 20 in) |
| Location |
Private collection |
Elective Affinities (French: Les affinités électives) is a 1933 painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte. The title is taken from the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Elective Affinities.[1]
Magritte had the following to say about this work:
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- One night, I woke up in a room in which a cage with a bird sleeping in it had been placed. A magnificent error caused me to see an egg in the cage, instead of the vanished bird. I then grasped a new and astonishing poetic secret, for the shock which I experienced had been provoked precisely by the affinity of two objects -- the cage and the egg -- to each other, whereas previously this shock had been caused by my bringing together two objects that were unrelated.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Gablik, Suzi, Magritte. New York: Thames & Hudson (2000), p. 101.
- ^ Quoted in Paquet, Marcel, Magritte. Cologne, Germany: Taschen (2006), p. 26.
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