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Musee Magritte, Brussels

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“…Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unforgiving nature. Freedom is the one word that still exalts me. I consider it capable of upholding indefinitely the longstanding human fanaticism. Undoubtedly it responds to my only legitimate aspiration. Among so many disgraces we inherit, it is only fair to admit that we are granted the greatest freedom of spirit. It is up to us not to misuse it gravely. To reduce it to slavery, even if it involved what we crudely call happiness, is to abandon/to forsake the supreme justice we find deep-rooted in ourselves. Imagination alone tells me what can be, and that is enough to briefly lift the terrible ban; enough also for me to abandon myself to her without fear of making a mistake.” – Andre Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism, 1924

Paintings by Rene Magritte

Woman on horseback 1922
Black Magic. 1934
Suzanne Spaak 1936
The Return 1940
The Fifth Season 1943
The Triumphal March 1948
The Flavor of Tears 1948

This is the only painting that Magritte did an exact copy of. Which one is the original?

The Good Faith 1965
Salvador DALI – The Temptation of St Anthony 1946
Joan MIRO – Woman and Birds at Sunrise 1946
Max ERNST – The Fireside Angel or The Triumph or Surrealism 1937

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