Le Faux Mirror: A Profile of René Magritte Essay -- Rene Magritte Pape

Le Faux Mirror A Profile of Ren Magritte I was a child and she was a child in this kingdom by the sea and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me* (Poe 1)Si vous aimez lamour, vous aimerez le Surrealisme, She screams as he slams the admittance (Mundy 4). His eyes be like nails in the rain. He steps onto the street the cobbled street. She presses her lips to the window the waiting window. As he runs away his militant frame, once cheer in comparison to her tiny fragility, sinks into a comforting smallness. He is gone. How small he looks now that he has not listened to her. How logical he seems. She is glad that he is no longer a man, but the memory of an umbrella.There is no way she will capture him again. She knows that he no longer sees her face in every song, but a whiteness, like a bed sheet, that covers everything. Her body is water. Her features are obstructe d. She finds pleasure in drowning. She wants to scream. As she breathes through the glass, watching him run, these words are in her mind You suicide me, so obediently. /I shall die you however one day. /I shall know that ideal woman /and slowly I shall coke on her mouth (Matthews 61). Why does she love him? Quest-ce que? What is it? She sees him as a man, yet she knows that the future will remember him as an craftist. How will he capture them? Of which facets of his art will they philosophize rapturously? Will it be the way his clean and vivid images seal themselves into the mind in a manner that is almost numeric? Is it the subconscious sense of eroticism that manages to pervade all of his work even through the innocent ... ...dgar Allen Poe.French TranslationsSi vousIf you love love, youll love SurrealismQuest-ce..What is it?Qu-est-ce (p. 69) What is Surrealism?Grelots RosesPink Bells (A moving-picture show by Magritte)dans les yeuxIn the darkest eyes the brightest eyes enclo se themselves.Works CitedGohr, Siegfried. Magritte.San Francisco The Museum of Modern Art. Abrams, 2000.Hammacher, Abraham Marie. Ren Magritte. Trans. James Brockway. New York Abrams, 1995. Mundy, Jennifer, ed. Surrealism Desire Unbound.Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton UP, 2001.Poe, Edgar Allen. Annabelle Lee. Romantic-Lyrics.com, 2003. http//www.romantic-lyrics.com/pa12.shtml.Soby, James Thrall. Ren Magritte.New York The Museum of Modern Art. Doubleday, 1965.Valery, Paul. Little easy Light, 2003. http//www.littlebluelight.com/lblphp/quotes.php?name=Valery