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The Lovers - René Magritte (1928)

The Lovers (Les Amants) is a painting by René Magritte from 1928, created using oil on canvas (54cm x 73cm). There are two versions of the work, both dated 1928. The first is currently held at the National Gallery of Australia, while the second, donated by private collector Richard S, is located at MoMA in New York.
There is something unsettling in this painting, a sense of impossibility. A reach that never occurs, a continuously disappointed expectation. At the center of the painting are two lovers – leaning towards each other – in the act of kissing, but this kiss is destined to remain suspended. Indeed, the two figures, defined only by their garments, are unrecognizable, and a white sheet wraps around their heads, making it impossible for them to unite. Love thus becomes aspiration, desire, tension, but fusion cannot occur. The anguish experienced while observing the work arises from conflict, the conflict between what is visible and what is hidden, between the visceral desire for union and the impossibility of it happening.
[source libreriamo.it]

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