The Empty Mask
Painting by René Magritte
45+3⁄4 in)
The Empty Mask (1928) is a painting by Belgian surrealist René Magritte.
In his essay Words and Images, published in 1929, Magritte observed that each image "suggests that there are others behind it".[citation needed] Viewed through a freestanding frame of irregular shape, these images are a sky, a lead curtain festooned with sleigh bells, a house façade, a sheet of paper cut-outs, a forest and a fire.
The title evokes the fear of the invisible which pervades the artist's work and reflects the surrealists' fascination with the subconscious. The painting was purchased in 1973 and is usually on display in the National Museum of Wales.
See also
- List of paintings by René Magritte
- 1928 in art
Sources
- National Museum Wales
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- List of paintings
- The Difficult Crossing (1926; 1963)
- Le Joueur Secret (1927)
- The Enchanted Pose (1927)
- The Menaced Assassin (1927)
- The Meaning of Night (1927)
- The Adulation of Space (1927–1928)
- The Empty Mask (1928)
- The False Mirror (1928)
- The Treachery of Images (1929)
- On the Threshold of Liberty (1929/1937)
- The Voice of Space (1931)
- Elective Affinities (1933)
- The Human Condition (1933/1935)
- The Portrait (1935)
- Not to Be Reproduced (1937)
- Time Transfixed (1938)
- The Palace of Memories (1939)
- The Empire of Light (1949–1954)
- The Seducer (1950)
- The Listening Room (1952)
- Golconda (1953)
- The Mysteries of the Horizon (1955)
- 16th September (1956)
- The Alarm Clock (1957)
- The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959)
- The Telescope (1963)
- The Son of Man (1964)
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