THE LOVERS

1928
The Lovers (Les Amants)
-Oil painting
-73.4 cm x 54 cm or 21 3/8 in x 28 7/8 in
-The work can be viewed at Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Created by René Magritte

-21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967
-Belgian surrealist artist
-His parents were Léopold Magritte, a tailor and textile merchant, and
Régina (née Bertinchamps), who was a milliner
- He began lessons in drawing in 1910
His Paintings from
1927 - 1928
The Lovers (Les Amants)
Almost 100 years ago, René Magritte, a Belgian surrealist artist, said,
‘‘Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is
hidden by what we see.”

What Magritte has achieved from this painting is that he has taken us
into a private or maybe a clandestine moment that two enigmatic people
share with great ambiguity and mystery or maybe the lack of it. To quote
one of the leaders of the surrealist movements, Andre Breton, “We
reduce art to its simplest expression, which is love”