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René Magritte. The Menaced Assassin.
1926. Oil on canvas, 152 x 195 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York.
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It's a sex murder story, and is typical in the work of Magritte. In the center of an inner room, we see a woman's nude body lying on the divan.
A towel is placed over her neck, but that does not prevent us from determining that she has been decapitated. The scene presents us with a narrative puzzle that cannot be solved;
instead, we only come up with more questions. Magritte's pictures are always violent in some way; though he never really shows an act of violence, he does violence to our
accepted ideas and conventions in the way he undermines the reality we take for granted.
Magritte is a surrealist in the way his puzzling images undermine reason and the reality we take for granted. His realistic style and surreal
content place him in the camp of Dali and others who use reality against itself, as opposed to the more abstract dream imagery of Miro.
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