L'Empire des Lumieres

ID: #695 | TOP 100 | Surrealism | Architecture

The painting depicts a lonely two-storey house with lighted windows standing at the edge of a quiet lake or river at dusk or early evening. The sky is tinted blue and orange, suggesting sunset. A tall tree towers next to the house, creating a contrast between nature and human habitation. The reflection of the lights and the tree on the water surface adds a peaceful atmosphere to the scene. There is dark vegetation around the house and tree, and everything is immersed in the calm evening lighting.

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Prevailing color of this fine art print is dark and its shape is portrait.

René François Ghislain Magritte (1898-1967). Belgian surrealist painter. He painted images full of wise humour, perspective and provocative thinking. They often depict a collection of everyday objects placed in an unusual context. For example, his painting Pipe looks like an advertisement for the tobacco trade. It bears the inscription This is not a pipe, which may not seem like the truth. But not on second thought: we see an image of a pipe (Magritte himself said: Try to stuff this pipe with tobacco.). His paintings are poetic and realistic (as opposed to images of another important surrealist, Joan Miró). His paintings significantly influenced his contemporaries and even artists today, and the artistic direction of the entire pop art movement. They became part of mainstream culture (often in the form of imitation in advertisements, etc.).