Magritte with Hat
Artist: Duane Michals (American, born 1932)
Date: 1965
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in. (20.4 x 25.3 cm);
Image: 5 x 7 7/16 in. (12.8 x 18.9 cm)
Medium: Gelatin-silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Mackenzie Price
Object number: 1990.54
Label Text:
Mimicking the surreal artwork of the Belgian master René Magritte (1898–1967), Duane Michals produced a half-length frontal view of Magritte with a bowler hat resting upside down atop his head. In Magritte’s surrealistic paintings, a nebulous man wearing a bowler is a recurring theme. Michals superimposed over the portrait a fainter double-exposed image of a hand placing a large “ghostly’ bowler hat over Magritte. Known for producing a sequence of photographs to communicate a narrative, here Michals has ‘sequenced’ one image over another.
Michals has been much inspired by the art of Magritte in his quest to use photography to convey a sense of what can be imagined or dreamt—what is beyond the visible. Just like Magritte, his work challenges preconditioned perceptions of reality.
Mimicking the surreal artwork of the Belgian master René Magritte (1898–1967), Duane Michals produced a half-length frontal view of Magritte with a bowler hat resting upside down atop his head. In Magritte’s surrealistic paintings, a nebulous man wearing a bowler is a recurring theme. Michals superimposed over the portrait a fainter double-exposed image of a hand placing a large “ghostly’ bowler hat over Magritte. Known for producing a sequence of photographs to communicate a narrative, here Michals has ‘sequenced’ one image over another.
Michals has been much inspired by the art of Magritte in his quest to use photography to convey a sense of what can be imagined or dreamt—what is beyond the visible. Just like Magritte, his work challenges preconditioned perceptions of reality.
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